Science & Technology News Archive

Volume 15, Issue 3

• Sharp Unveils Triple Vision LCD

Volume 15, Issue 1

• Microsharp film targets LCD backlights

Volume 14, Issue 2

• Consumer electronics show (CES) reveals impressive new RPTVs

Volume 13, Issue 4

• HP unveils a new display that is said to be 'as clear as a glossy magazine'
• Philips to close its LCOS business

Volume 13, Issue 3

• New Automatic Liquid Crystal Tester
• C9303 Colour Sensor Module
• Science & Technology News - Biaxial Nematic Phase Found
• Science & Technology News - Liquid Crystal Detectors for Anthrax
• Science & Technology News - A Review of Microdisplays of the Future

Volume 13, Issue 2

• Articles & Letters in the News: Liquid-crystal elastomer deformed by light swims into the dark
• Articles & Letters in the News: A new mode of organisation in soft matter
• Technology News - Rocket fuel for thin-film transistors to speed up LCDs
• Technology News - Electronic circuit using liquid crystals
• Technology News - Reversible LCD for mobile phones
• Technology News - Kodak unveils 3D immersive display
• Product News
• Technology News - E-paper makes consumer debut

Volume 13, Issue 1

• Technology News - Illuminated materials bend, curl and move
• Technology News - Liquid crystal lenses: a member of a new family of lenses
• Product News - Zero power displays coming soon
• Product News - Supplier of intermediates for liquid crystals
• Technology News - Competition for LCDs from flexible E-ink displays and OLEDs
• Articles in the News - Constructing dendrimer-like DNA
• Articles in the News - Self-assembled liquid crystalline gels

Volume 12, Issue 4

• Photonic Crystals: Towards Rational Material Design
• Holey Fibers Get Liquid Crystal Boost
• Articles in the News
• Towards New Chiral Molecules?

Volume 12, Issue 3

• Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal Forms Tunable Photonic Crystals
• Transparent Conductive Oxides for Coatings
• Mirror Displays
• Bringing Flexibility to a Previously Rigid World
• FHP Introduces 4 models of High-Definition Plasma Display Panel with Highest Brightness in the World (Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited, Kawasaki, Japan)
• Blue Beetle Leads to Technicolour Fossils
• A Revolution in Optical Manipulation
• Cellophane Wraps Up 3D Displays
• Digital Cameras Get Colour Upgrade
• CRL Opto produce SLM Modulator Kit

Volume 12, Issue 2

• Liquid Crystals help probe cellular biochemical reactions
• Samsung unveils power-saving 4-colour LCD
• Samsung Electronics Tops TFT-LCD Market for 5th Straight Year
• 'Clutter Free' LCD monitors from Fujitsu Siemens Computers
• Changes at e-LC
• Chi Mei Optoelectronics Announces Breakthrough OLED, Video-Quality, 20
• Corning Reiterates Growth Projections for its LCD Glass Business
• Fujitsu Releases 16-bit Microcontroller for LCD Panel Drivers
• Microsemi Light Sensor Provides Automatic Brightness Control for Flat Panel Displays
• Philips Unveils High-Performance Transmissive Display for Mobile Device Applications
• Samsung Electronics applies advanced crystallization technology to achieving world's largest 21.3-inch LTPS TFT-LCD
• Touch-Integrated LCD Smart Kits

Volume 12, Issue 1

• ESF Exploratory Workshop on Liquid Crystal Colloidal Dispersions to be held
• 13th version of the database, LiqCryst 4.3, is available
• Organic displays provide competition for LCDs in cameras
• The future can only mean lower prices
• Company Link Up
• Two new monitors for Sharp's family of products
• LCD industry proves an expansion area for Corning Incorporated
• New Products from Optrex America
• Company Moves
• New Legal Battles over materials for use in LCD's
• Sharp's 3D displays go into production
• ZBD Displays signs new deal
• New interactive document server (e-LC) is fully functional
• Size Record Broken Again
• FPD 2003, La Jolla, San Diego, California

Volume 11, Issue 4

• Forecasts till 2006 shows LCDs are well placed
• The 5 million mark broken
• Size matters
• Three-Five Systems unveil a new series of microdisplays
• Slow down in the European LCD market
• Sharp launches a new range of its Aquos LCD TV's: widescreen and E-series
• New Production Facility in Singapore
• Good news for both large and small displays
• Further manufacturing expansions
• Sharp Launch a 3D LCD
• US FPD Conference 2003: Evolution of an Industry
• Seamless Display wins a UK Government Grant of 45,000

Volume 11, Issue 3

• 5G manufacturing plant sees HannStar looking to the long term
• A New Device Fabrication Technique
• Large panel and Medium Colour LC Devices on the rise
• LCViz 2.1 has been released!
• LiqCryst 4.2 is now available
• Sharp to build new manufacturing plant
• SID 2002
• Three-Five Systems Investing in a second company
• The Kent Display story continues?..
• Phillips announces details of new display technologies

Volume 11, Issue 1

• Spatial Light Modulator LC2002
• Heat dissipation problems measured by thin sensor film
• A new approach to analysing transparent materials
• Matsushita announces new LCDs and DVDs
• Sharp launch new LCD TV range

Volume 10, Issue 2

• Bright predictions for the future of displays and in particular, microdisplays
• Toshiba Plan to launch large display
• Finkelmann group uses LC elastomers to tune laser emission
• New alignment technologies promise vast improvements
• Sharp launches two new monitors in the UK
• Novel cholesteric display to improve colour and brightness
• Faraday Partnership for UK Liquid Crystals Consortium
• LiqCryst 4.0 has been released
• Novel thin films used as an antireflection coating

Volume 10, Issue 1

• Kent Displays report several advances
• NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics launches the NEC MULTISYNC LCD2010X display with AMBIX dual connection technology
• Toshiba release new LCD projector models
• Screen Technology Ltd.
• LCD Spin off company from DERA
• Kingston Chemicals - a new company providing liquid crystals

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