Vitex and Novaled Partner on OLED Thin Film Encapsulation
Vitex, a provider of thin film encapsulation and Novaled, a maker of OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes), are going to combine advantages of the Vitex Barix thin film technology with the Novaled doping technology and materials targeting very thin OLED products.

Unidym Renews CNT Display Agreement with Samsung
Unidym Inc. announced that it has entered into a second joint development agreement with Samsung Electronics. 
The companies have been working jointly to integrate carbon nanotube materials as the transparent conductive layer in display devices.

Applied Breaks Ground for Taiwan Expansion
Applied Materials held a groundbreaking for an expansion project of its Tainan Manufacturing Center.

FlexTech Alliance Will Support Printed Electronics, Displays
The U. S. Display Consortium (USDC) announced today that it is formally expanding its mission to support the emerging flexible, printed electronics market.

Flat-screen TV Chemicals Could Damage Climate
The production of some flat-screen TVs and monitors uses nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a colorless gas that is 17,000× as potent a driver of global warming as carbon dioxide. suggest Michael Prather and Juno Hsu, of the University of California.

USDC and Applied to Develop Films for Flexible Displays
The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC) announced a cost-shared contract award with Applied Materials Inc. to develop metal-oxide films for next-generation thin-film transistors (TFTs). Metal oxide films are also expected to be used for fabricating flexible displays and backplanes for OLED applications.

Unidym Demonstrates LCD Using CNT-based Transparent Electrode
Unidym Inc. demonstrated a full-color active matrix LCD made with carbon nanotube (CNT) components at the Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium.

Corning To Showcase Gorilla Glass for Touch Screens at SID
Corning Inc. announced today that it will be featuring its recently introduced Gorilla glass at SID Display Week 2008, May 19-23 in Los Angeles.

DuPont and Dainippon Screen to Develop OLED Equipment
DuPont and Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co., Ltd., today announced their intention to form a strategic alliance to develop integrated manufacturing equipment for printed organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays.

Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Indium-Tin Oxide Pattern Method
Timothy A. Cowen of Lower Burrell, Pa., has developed a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel alignment method

Zygo Receives LCD Display Equipment Orders
Zygo Corp. announced that it received display orders totaling $6.6M in its third quarter, bringing the yearly total to $15.0 million.

Samsung Develops LCD Manufacturing Method
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel is provided, which includes: coating a negative organic photoresist on a substrate; performing divisional light exposure with a plurality of shots including first and second shots adjacent to each other; and developing the photoresist to form a light blocking member having a plurality of openings, wherein the first and the second shots have a boundary crossing the openings."

Chunghwa Picture Tubes Develops TFT Method
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The thin film transistor has a non-transparent structure besides and insulated with the gate."

Rohm and Haas Acquires OLED Materials Supplier Gracel
Rohmand Haas Company has acquired Gracel Display Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) materials. The transaction, worth approximately $40 million, gives Rohm and Haas controlling interest in South Korea-based Gracel.

Inventors Develop TFTs for Liquid Crystal Displays
Woon-Yong Park and Chang-Oh Jeong, both of Kyungki-do, South Korea, and Jong-Soo Yoon of Choongeheongnam-do, South Korea, have developed an array of thin film transistor.

Engineers Make First 'Active Matrix' Display Using Nanowires
Engineers have created the first "active matrix" display using a new class of transparent transistors and circuits, a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and "heads-up" displays in car windshields.

Toray Creates Material for Bendable OEL Displays
Toray Industries Inc. has developed a material that could lead to the realization of paper-thin displays.

Display Consortium Awards Support to Optomec
Optomec today announced that the company has received a one-year development contract from the U.S. Display Consortium (USDC) to further develop its M3D Aerosol Jet System.

Engineers Create Transparent Electrodes For Display Screens
South Korean engineers said Thursday that they had developed a new transparent electrode that could reduce the production costs of display screens used in computers and mobile phones.

LG and Universal Display Announce Collaboration on OLEDs
LG Chem, Ltd. and Universal Display Corp. announced that they have signed a non-exclusive joint development agreement to accelerate the commercialization of high-performance OLED materials for use in OLED displays.