Myoungjin Park, Yun Ku Jung, Sehun Kim, Jaekook Ha, Masanobu Tanaka, Yeogeon Yoon, Changhee Lee
{"title":"Inkjet-Printed QD-LED Displays: Status and Prospects for Commercialization","authors":"Myoungjin Park, Yun Ku Jung, Sehun Kim, Jaekook Ha, Masanobu Tanaka, Yeogeon Yoon, Changhee Lee","doi":"10.1002/msid.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Self-emissive QD-LED displays are advancing rapidly to become a leading display platform with low-cost inkjet printing for high-performance visual demands in the AI era.</p>","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":"14-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147565110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporal Metrology Challenges in Next-Generation Displays","authors":"Mark Rejhon, Ian Khaw","doi":"10.1002/msid.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Simultaneous color-channel measurement is recommended for accurate temporal metrology on modern displays.</p>","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":"20-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CES 2026 Offers Array of Demonstrations and Products","authors":"Chris Chinnock","doi":"10.1002/msid.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>THE 2026 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES) IN LAS</b> Vegas offered a vast array of display products and technologies, with several focused on automotive, TV, multi-primary displays, microLEDs, and meta-lenses. Regarding augmented reality (AR) glasses and extended reality (XR) headsets, perhaps the most important trend to watch is the emergence of competition in smart glasses—with and without displays and cameras but all with some sort of AI integration.</p><p>Many companies demonstrated production versions of pillar-to-pillar displays, panoramic head-up displays (P-HUDs), electronic rearview mirrors, center console displays, rear-seat entertainment displays, window displays, and AR-HUDs.</p><p>One trend was more vertical integration with a focus on the automotive market from traditional panel suppliers. AUO has formed the AUO Mobility Solutions Corporation, which includes Germany-based BHCT, a well-established Tier One automotive supplier. They announced their first design win of a cockpit controller. CarUX (Innolux) focuses on mobility solutions and used CES to announce that it is acquiring Pioneer Electronics for its strength in audio and access to the Japanese car market.</p><p>Rollable, slidable, and shaped OLED displays were mostly concepts this year. Particularly impressive was an S-shaped inkjet-printed OLED center console display from TCL CSOT, along with a slidable version of this same panel (<b>Fig</b>. 1). Other form factors included J- and L-shaped OLEDs and rollable OLED demonstrations.</p><p>Dual-view displays offer an alternative to driver privacy solutions that simply black-out distracting content on the passenger display, such as a movie. Samsung Display calls their solution “Flex Magic Pixel,” which is OLED technology that controls viewing angles at the pixel level to provide bult-in privacy protection (<b>Fig</b>. 2). LG Display had a similar privacy-enhancing OLED viewing-angle control system. Both are based on a dual-pixel approach, whereas CarUX showed an LCD display that uses a parallax barrier to deliver separate images.</p><p>One emerging area of innovation is decorative panels or “smart surfaces”—surfaces in the car that have traditionally had a fabric or textured material that can now include illuminated icons. The material can be a smooth, textured, or painted surface that is illuminated by microLED displays, segmented LEDs, or LCD displays. BOE showed a microLED and segmented LED version, whereas Tianma uses a quantum-dot (QD) miniLED LCD to create an image in their woodgrain surface (<b>Fig</b>. 3). CarUX can integrate a display with a leather or carbon fiber surface. Only Aumovio, Continental's spin-out automotive business, showed a color E-Ink-based smart surface.</p><p>Transparent window displays were also a hot topic. These can be transparent microLED displays glued to or laminated within a window, or a projector coupled to a diffusing layer affixed to the window. To support these applications, Texas Instrum","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":"38-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Display Week 2026 Promises to be the Best Yet","authors":"Ioannis (John) Kymissis","doi":"10.1002/msid.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70040","url":null,"abstract":"<p>At the recent 2026 SID Program Committee meeting in Las Vegas, we reviewed a record number of submissions: 1,054 papers and ∼200 posters. I remain humbled and impressed by the amazing breadth and depth of contributions and especially want to thank members from around the world for supporting the conference during turbulent times with US travel.</p>","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India Display Workshop Highlights Advances","authors":"Abhishek Srivastava, Harit Doshi, Neetu Chopra","doi":"10.1002/msid.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>THE INDIA DISPLAY WORKSHOP (IDW)</b> 2025 was held on November 19 at CSIR–CEERI and BITS Pilani, as a pre-conference event of the 32nd National Conference on Liquid Crystals (NCLC). The workshop was jointly organized by BITS Pilani and CSIR–CEERI Pilani, with generous support from the Society for Information Display (SID). More than 80 participants gathered from throughout India. The director of CSIR–CEERI Pilani, P.C. Panchariya, conducted the inaugural session in the presence of other distinguished dignitaries from academia and research organizations. The inauguration underscored the strong commitment of CSIR–CEERI and BITS Pilani toward advancing display-related science and technology and fostering meaningful industry–academia interactions.</p><p>The workshop served as a focused platform to highlight recent advances in display materials, device physics, and emerging display technologies, while strengthening industry–academia collaboration in this strategically important sector. The program featured distinguished international experts from leading institutions, including Ian Underwood from the University of Edinburgh, SID President Ioannis (John) Kymissis from Columbia University, and <i>JSID</i> Editor-in-Chief Abhishek Srivastava from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Their lectures covered a broad range of topics spanning micro- and nano-display technologies, advanced optoelectronic materials, and future directions in display science.</p><p>IDW 2025 witnessed enthusiastic participation from students, researchers, and professionals, offering young researchers valuable exposure to real-world technological challenges and innovation pathways in the display ecosystem. Interactive discussions, Q&A sessions, and informal interactions encouraged an exchange of ideas and fostered potential research and industry collaborations.</p><p>The successful organization of IDW 2025 has highlighted the growing capabilities and opportunities in display science and technology. The workshop effectively set the tone for NCLC, reinforcing the strong link between liquid crystal research, soft-matter physics, and technology-driven applications. It also contributed to India's vision of self-reliance and technological leadership in advanced materials and displays.</p><p>According to the convener of IDW 2025 and NCLC 2025, Raj Kumar Gupta of BITS Pilani, IDW proved to be a highly meaningful and timely initiative, contributing effectively to the evolving display technology ecosystem in India. The workshop successfully brought together academia, national laboratories, and students, fostering dialogue across the innovation pipeline, from liquid crystal and soft-matter research to device development and applications.</p><p>The SID India Initiative was launched three years ago with a clear conviction that the time was right for India to enter display manufacturing. That belief was anchored in strong fundamentals: one of the world's largest and fast","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate Members and Index to Advertisers","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/msid.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ID Asks/Steven DenBaars","authors":"Sri Peruvemba","doi":"10.1002/msid.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pioneering the Light that Powers the Future of Industry and Academia</p>","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":"25-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Science and Entertainment are Coming Together","authors":"Stephen P. Atwood","doi":"10.1002/msid.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>PERCHED HIGH ON MOUNT LEE SITS THE ICONIC HOLLYWOOD</b> Sign, which remains perhaps the most recognizable symbol of the entertainment industry. Originally erected in 1923 as a real estate advertisement, it has become an enduring icon of ambition and stardom. A couple of miles away is the Griffith Observatory, located on the southern slope of Mount Hollywood. While the sign evokes emotional excitement for all the great entertainment that has come out of the famous Hollywood studios, the observatory evokes a deep appreciation of how our scientific capabilities can lead to incredible educational experiences and inspire intellectual pursuits.</p><p>From its opening in 1935, Griffith Observatory was designed to help expand public education and access to astronomy. It has introduced millions of visitors to astronomy and physics, making it one of the most popular public telescopes in the world. Its Samuel Oschin Planetarium uses advanced digital projection to visualize cosmology, black holes, and planetary science in ways that make cutting-edge discoveries accessible to the public. Many astronomers and aerospace engineers have cited early visits to the observatory as sparking their interest in science. And so, we can see the magic of bringing our biggest industry event to the area that evokes the best in both visual entertainment and scientific exploration.</p><p>One of the reasons I love our electronic display industry is because of all the great visual experiences it enables as well as all the different fields of science and engineering that must converge to make our products work. As much as our enjoyment of great visual displays is a close and personal experience, sometimes our pursuit of the underlying discoveries to make them happen seem as distant and beyond reach as peering at the stars.</p><p>This year, our Display Week program will kick off in Los Angeles on May 3 with a full week of extraordinary events. One of the most famous and historic of these events is the SID International Technical Symposium, dating back to the beginning of the annual conference. This is where you can see the best research papers in more than a dozen categories presented by the best engineers and researchers in the industry. The inspiring contributors are figuratively the soldiers in the trenches, slowly advancing leading-edge advancements of our industry one important innovation at a time. The best of more than 1,000 submissions made it into the program this year, resulting in 450 oral and 250 poster presentations.</p><p>To help you navigate the incredible diversity of content, we present our preview and highlights article compiled by Lori Wilson with input from our great program subcommittee members. Gather your colleagues and use this guide to divide and conquer so you can cover all the aspects of the upcoming program.</p><p>I hope this feature persuades you to make your travel plans and submit your registration form early. While you are in LA, find some time","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Next Chapter for Quantum Dot Displays","authors":"Jeff Yurek, ZhongSheng Luo","doi":"10.1002/msid.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, QUANTUM DOTS (QDS) HAVE BEEN</b> steadily reshaping the display landscape—first as photoluminescent (PL) films that dramatically improved color and efficiency in LCD backlights and more recently as color-conversion layers in QD-OLED TVs and monitors. But the technology has always pointed toward a more ambitious destination: a fully self-emissive QD display, where each subpixel generates its own light through the direct electrical excitation of QDs. That destination is now coming into sharper focus. In this issue of <i>Information Display</i>, we present two articles that highlight the rapid progress being made on the road to electroluminescent QD displays and the evolving measurement science needed to properly characterize the increasingly complex displays that QD technology enables.</p><p>Myoungjin Park and colleagues at Samsung Display review the status of inkjet-printed QD-LED displays and make a strong case that commercialization is within reach. QD-LEDs move beyond today's PL approaches entirely. Rather than converting light from a blue LED or blue OLED source, each red, green, and blue subpixel emits light directly under electrical drive, combining the deep blacks, wide viewing angle, and fast response of emissive technologies with the intrinsically narrow emission spectra and wide color gamut that QDs are known for.</p><p>The progress they report is striking. Red and green cadmium-free QD-LEDs have reached external quantum efficiencies and lifetimes that rival commercial phosphorescent OLEDs, and Samsung Display prototypes showcased at Display Week 2025 achieved 400 nits at 264 pixels per inch.</p><p>The authors present inkjet printing as a particularly compelling manufacturing path, offering additive, mask-free patterning with greater than 90 percent material utilization and compatibility with large-format substrates. This represents a meaningful cost advantage over the vacuum deposition processes used for OLEDs today. The remaining gap is blue device lifetime, but recent advances in oxidation suppression and exciton management are closing it steadily. If QD-LED technology delivers on its current trajectory, it could offer the display industry something rare: a platform that is simultaneously better in color, competitive in efficiency, and potentially lower in manufacturing cost.</p><p>The second article, by Mark Rejhon and Ian Khaw, explores the intersection of high-speed temporal measurement and modern display technologies, including QD-enhanced displays. This work grew out of a convention demonstration that earned consecutive People's Choice Awards at Display Week 2024 and 2025 for its real-time visualization of color-channel performance differences between phosphor types. Building on that work, the team expanded their investigation to examine how temporal display behavior interacts with color measurement methodology across miniLED and other modern displays. Their high-speed photodiode oscilloscope measure","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Display Week 2026 Technical Symposium Highlights","authors":"Lori A. Wilson","doi":"10.1002/msid.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/msid.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Dear Display-Passionate Friends, Students, and Colleagues,</p><p>On behalf of the Society for Information Display (SID) Program Committee, it is my great honor and pleasure to bid you all a heartfelt and warm welcome to Display Week 2026. The 63rd International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition will return to Los Angeles, California, on May 3–8.</p><p>The Technical Symposium, featured Tuesday through Friday, received a record-high number of more than 1,000 submissions. Of these submissions, more than 450 oral presentations in 118 sessions and 250 posters were selected, all peer reviewed. For the second year in a row, we have a <i>full Friday symposium program with high-caliber presentations</i>, so please arrange your travel plans accordingly to stay the last day as well.</p><p>The Technical Symposium will cover the latest advances in all aspects of display technologies and related fields, including imaging, AI, medical, and other emerging applications. From LCDs, OLEDs, and emissive applications to extended, virtual, and augmented reality, there is something for all areas of interest.</p><p>Each year, the Symposium's Special Topics reflect upcoming display technologies and themes, and this year is no exception. “Sustainable Displays and Green Technologies” has expanded significantly, including papers on sustainable display manufacturing, packaging, and transportation methods and displays for visual health. “Heterogeneous Integration on Glass and Other Substrates for Emerging Applications” will feature papers on synergies between display and semiconductor manufacturing.</p><p>This year, we will introduce two new Special Topics. The first, “Next-Generation Materials: Perovskites and Beyond,” will delve into future light sources for displays and other applications, including advanced, emerging perovskite emitter materials and LEDs. The second, “Super-Sensing for Enhanced Awareness,” will explore how XR combined with various sensors is paving the way for next-generation personal devices.</p><p>Some sessions will include panel discussions on selected topics in addition to the oral presentations. Additionally, the author interviews will be more accessible to attendees through a scheduling system. Do not miss out on these opportunities, as well as the poster sessions, for in-depth discussions and enhanced networking.</p><p>Among these offerings are also Sunday Short Courses, which will provide in-depth learning on fundamental display topics. Monday features the Business Conference, providing insights into the evolution of the supply-chain and commercial aspects of the display business. Seminars will provide a comprehensive overview on several topics, and the “Displays 101” course (great for students and professionals alike) as well as the Computer Vision and AI Conference are back for a second year.</p><p>Tuesday kicks off with the amazing keynote presentations, followed by the opening of the Exhibit Hall, where the latest and greatest display inno","PeriodicalId":52450,"journal":{"name":"Information Display","volume":"42 2","pages":"44-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/msid.70045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}