NIKKEI MICRODEVICES' FLAT PANEL DISPLAY 2006 YEARBOOK

Publisher: Nikkei BP., Tokyo, Japan, ISBN: 1-884730-39-6

Published: 2006

Price: $99.00

Available on CD or Hard Copy
In 2006, competitive conditions in the flat panel display (FPD) industry will change significantly. The era in which competition was primarily based on increasing investment and glass substrate sizes is over. Henceforth, overall capability, including parts/material strategy and equipment strategy, will become the decisive factor. By 2010, parts and material costs will account for 80% of the total cost of large-size LCD panels, which will drive future market expansions; thus, parts and materials will make up most of the value addition in panels. Leading panel makers are starting to reinforce their cooperative relationships with parts and material makers, as well as with equipment makers.

Part 1 Trends

FPDs to account for half of TVs on market by 2010; Meeting diverse demands from full-HD TVs to models in the100,000-yen class
1 Industry trends
Overall capability, including panels, parts and materials, and production equipment, becomes the deciding factor
2 Market analysis .
Rapid expansion of the FPD TV market accelerating panel demand recovery

Part 2 Image Quality Evaluation

Image quality of FPDs closing in on CRTs;
Evaluating image quality in latest models
1 Image-quality benchmark
Simultaneously achieving price reduction to the 1 inch = 10,000 yen level, along with picture quality improvements in FPD TVs
2 Ergonomic
Ergonomic issues in picture quality improvement in flat panel TVs
3 Evaluation and measurement
Current status of and expectation for picture quality evaluation/measurement technologies
4 Video response measurement .
Motion blur- latest technologies for its evaluation, and remaining issues
5 Signal generator
Increases and diversification in FPD picture quality leading to changing requirements for signal generators

Part 3 Liquid Crystal Display Technologies 1: Image Quality Innovation

Technologies abound to correct LCDs’ flaws;
vast improvement in picture contrast and video characteristics
1 OCB liquid crystal displays
OCB liquid crystal panel technology
– Advance in moving picture performance and future prospects –
2 Area control
LED light sources and area control technology enable high performance that surpasses CRTs
3 LED
Use of LEDs rapidly expanding from backlights to cars and illumination

Part 4 Liquid Crystal Display Technologies 2: Production Innovation

Elemental technologies for revolutionary inkjet and roll-to-roll materials emerge
1 Roll-to-roll
Roll-to-roll technology for components utilized in FPDs
2 Laser direct imaging
Laser direct patterning technology becoming the key for cost-cutting in next-generation lines
3 Film
Light guide technology for improving efficiency and reducing cost of backlights

Part 5 PDP Technologies

Luminous efficiency to exceed 2 lm/W;
Complete renovation from rib structure to materials
1 Improvement of luminous efficiency
Striving for a 1080p, 50-inch PDP with a luminous efficiency of 2 lm/W
2 High image quality
Technology to improve the picture quality of plasma displays and win the picture-quality competition in the age of digital HDTV

Part 6 Rear Projection Technologies

Revamping panels, screens, and optical systems;
Image quality approaching level of LCDs and PDPs 1 High-temperature polysilicon Si
Continued innovations in high-temperature polysilicon TFT technologies to achieve both high picture quality and low cost
2 DMD
Differentiation through color reproducibility based on full-HD

Part 7 Organic EL Technologies

OLED enters market, challenging LCDs cost-wise; Reassessing drive circuit, panel structure, and materials
1 Larger screens
Development of a 40-inch color organic EL panel utilizing a single a-Si TFT substrate
2 Drive methods
Analog drive as the realistic solution a-Si TFT substrate now one of the alternatives
3 Manufacturing processes
Prototype 200-ppi, high-definition organic EL panel created utilizing photolithographic technology

Part 8 Seeds

On-glass DRAMs and on-plastic processors; Substrate technologies that lead to realization of sheet computers
1 Integrated memory
DRAM on glass: validating the potential for incorporation with LCDs
2 Integrated processors
An 8-bit asynchronous processor formed on a flexible substrate