Taiwan display innovators get gold from SID
Baku, May 22 (AZERTAC). Taiwan`s E Ink Holdings Inc. and Industrial Technology Research Institute were recognized for their innovative display technologies by the U.S.-headquartered Society for Information Display May 17.
E Ink`s Triton, a color electronic paper display, won the gold Display Component of the Year award for providing high-contrast, sunlight-readable and low-power performance for e-readers, SID said.
“In addition to color, E Ink Triton delivers 20 percent faster page update times compared to previous technologies,” the organization added.
In the same category, ITRI grabbed the silver with its Flexible Substrate for Displays, according to SID.
“This new technique overcomes traditional soft displays` vulnerability to high temperatures, which expand the layered plastic materials and cause the transistors to stray from their original positions,” said Liu Jia-ming, deputy director-general of ITRI`s Material and Chemical Research Laboratories.
Early researchers, he explained, added heat-resistant materials to display substrates to prevent the transistors from moving, but found the additives made the display less clear and bright. ITRI developed a new process combining inorganic materials with traditional organic materials, reducing expansion under high temperatures and producing a very clear display.
E Ink Triton is expected to address the needs of e-publishing markets and electronic signage, while ITRI`s flexible substrate is applicable to solar energy batteries, color filters and touch-screen films of all sizes.
Apple Inc. took the gold award in both Display of the Year and Display Application of the Year, for its iPhone 4 Retina Display and iPad, respectively. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. won silver in the same categories with its Mobile Display On-cell Touch AMOLED and Galaxy S Mobile Smartphones.
Bob Melcher, chairman of the SID Display of the Year Awards committee, praised the award-winning innovations for "continuing to make interactions with handheld communication and computing devices more exciting, intuitive and useful than ever before."
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