Heterogeneous integration for high-performance electronic packaging is rapidly becoming a mainstream activity, with glass emerging as a promising candidate for interposer substrates in multichip integrated circuit packaging. This special topic invites submissions from both display and non-display industrial and academic communities engaged in innovative work to advance the science and engineering of heterogeneous integration.

The global reach of the display industry and its value chain has brought transformative changes to the human experience, altering how we work, communicate, learn, and spend leisure time. At the same time, the growing scale and huge output of the display industry bring proportional demands on environmental and social resources, while risking excluding portions of the world population.

New for 2026. As the display industry evolves beyond traditional OLEDs and quantum dots, novel semiconducting materials are rapidly emerging to define the next wave of display innovation. Among these, metal halide perovskites have demonstrated exceptional progress in both photoluminescent and electroluminescent performance, achieving external quantum efficiencies (EQEs) rivaling commercial OLEDs and QLEDs, along with rapidly improving operational stability and color purity, as well as other applications such as transistors, image sensors, and other applications.

New for 2026. Super-Sensing XR headsets could significantly enhance situational awareness by providing users with optimized vision and other sensing beyond human capabilities. These headsets or glasses can potentially offer telescopic imaging, magnification, expanded light spectrum visibility, and low-light vision as well as correcting many common ophthalmic and auditory issues. These technologies could also enable accurate distance measurement, enhance GPS navigation efficiency, support advanced communication functions, and facilitate comprehensive analysis of both immediate and extended user environments to provide relevant information.