During Display Week in San Francisco, the Society for Information Display (SID) revealed the winners of the 21st annual Display Industry Awards. SID presented awards for displays, display components, and display applications.
It was no surprise that thin was in for displays. OLED displays have delivered on their promise and are being designed into major mainstream products, including advanced laptops and smart watches. In addition, new glass and polarizer fabrication techniques are helping to bring ultra-thin displays for TVs and other applications to market more quickly.
Here are the winners:
Displays of the Year :
Apple iPad, 12.9 in . — has a 264 ppi and a variable refresh rate that cuts the rate from 60 to 30 times/s during periods of static content.
Japan Display — offers a 17.3-in. screen with 7680 x 4320 pixel resolution with 120-Hz frame rate, and 510 ppi.
Display Components of the Year :
Asahi Glass XCV glass substrate for light guide plates (LGPs) — is 20 times stiffer, with a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than existing acrylic resin LGPs. It allows the making of televisions as thin as 5 mm thick.
Corning Iris Glass — LGP that provides the best class optical performance with high transmission and low color shift. It also provides dimensional stability that is not available with polymer LGPs. The material can produce LCD TVs less than 5 mm thick.
Nitto Denko ultra-thin polarizer — is 80% thinner at 5 microns than other polarizers made from polyvinyl alcohol. It also has low shrinkage force and has 60% less dimensional variance after heating than other polarizers.
Display Applications of the Year :
Apple Watch with plastic retina display built on a 326-ppi flexible OLED — has emissive properties that help save power. Available in 1.34 and 1.54-in. sizes, the watch’s user interface is built seamlessly into the physical product.
Microsoft Surface Book — features a 13.5-in. PixelSense display. With 3000 x 2000 resolution, the 6-million-pixeland 267-ppi display allows users to see smooth images with no pixelation, even up close.
In other news:
Cree once again set performance and efficiency records with its new 20,784 lumen CPY-20L LED canopy luminaire. The luminaire features a remarkable 143 LPW at 5,700K to outperform exiting LED and metal halide lighting products. According to Cree, the product offers a slim, low-profile design that can mount onto virtually any canopy or soffit. There are two optics choices — a flat or prismatic drop lens to meet the visual, as well as the vertical and horizontal illumination performance needs of a typical canopy application. The integrated driver within the canopy housing further simplifies installation, reducing installation time and cost. Visit CPY-20L to learn more.
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