Society for Information Display
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Review of LCD Technology and a Perspective of its Future

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - UCLA, California Nanosystems Institute building

Professor of Optics Shin-Tson Wu from the University of Central Florida

Dr. Shin-Tson Wu will provide a review of LCD Technology and cover a technology that could supplant current LCD panels using polymer-stabilized blue-phase LCDs. This Kerr-effect-induced isotropic-to-anisotropic switching mechanism offers four revolutionary features:

1) No need for alignment layer. 2) Submillisecond response time which enables color sequential display with a RGB LED backlight. As a result, pigment color filters are eliminated which leads to 3X higher optical efficiency, 3X higher resolution, and wider color gamut. 3) Wide and symmetric viewing angle without using compensation films, and 4) Cell gap insensitivity. Operating voltage and light efficiency and challenges remain, but. promising approaches to make widespread commercialization possible will be discussed.

Dr. Wu worked at Hughes Research Laboratories at Malibu for 18 years has been at UCF since 2001. He has authored 5 books on Flat Panel Displays, Liquid Crystal Devices, Microdisplays, Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays, and Optics and Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals as well as many other book chapters and papers. He has 80 issued and pending patents. As a SID Fellow and has won the 2008 Jan Rajchman Prize. Dr. Wu is also a IEEE, OSA, and SPIE Fellow.

Dr. Wu is returning from Taiwan and has graciously agreed to share his recent work at our meeting.

• Date: Tuesday, 15 December
• Location: UCLA California Nanosystems Institute building. See map and directions link.
• Social hour: 6:00 PM. A selection of wines and cheeses will be served and Dr. Yang Yang of UCLA will show a few slides about the UCLA Nanosystem Institute
• Dinner: 7:00 PM. A catered dinner will be served.
• Meeting: 8:00 PM. Presentation by Professor Shin-Tson Wu
• Cost of Dinner: $20.00. Subsidized by the LA Chapter ($30 after the 10th of December)

Parking is normally $10, but if you are one of the first 25 people to sign up with Larry Iboshi it will be free. If you can't come until 8:00PM, the meeting will be free except for the parking which will be free if you are on the list. Check in with the parking kiosk on Westwood Blvd for directions to the CNSI (California Nanosystems Institute). http://cnsi.ctrl.ucla.edu/file-sharing/publicview/facilities/DirectionsCNSI.pdf

Reservations: please contact Larry Iboshi at iboshi@pacbell.net 714-992-2331

Future Events:

• January 21, 2010 – SID Chapter Social Meeting.
• February 5, 2010 – One-Day Symposium, “Technologies for Custom LCD Display Modules”, At the Costa Mesa Country Club. For details http://www.customlcdmodule.com/ or http://sidla.org/
• March 25, 2010 – SID Chapter Meeting, “CES Display Highlights”
• April 29, 2010 – SID Chapter Meeting, “Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays”. Companies will demonstrate product and give presentations.

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