LCD 50th ANNIVERSARY EVENT
TUESDAY, MAY 22
Fifty years have passed since the first dynamic scattering mode LCD was demonstrated by RCA. On Tuesday, May 22, LCD industry pioneers from North America, Asia, and Europe will gather at Display Week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of liquid-crystal displays. This special session, Pioneering the Trail to Today: 50 Years of LCD Innovations, is an opportunity to take a look back at the innovative R&D work and commercialization of the LCD, which opened up a new era of small to large display-related products.
Chair: Shin-Tson Wu, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, US
| Time: 2:00 pm - 5:25 pm, Place: Petree Hall D |
| 2:00 pm: Opening remarks |
Helge Seetzen
SID President
TandemLaunch, Montreal, Canada |
| 2:05 pm: From Dynamic Scattering to Field-Effect Liquid Crystal Displays |
Martin Schadt
Managing Director
MS High-Tech Consulting |
| 2:25 pm: Development of TFT LCDs |
Fang-Chen Luo
Adviser, AU Optronics
Co-Inventor (with Peter Brody) of the Active-Matrix LCD |
| 2:45 pm: Development of a-Si TFT-LCD and Low Temperature p-Si TFT-LCD |
Koji Suzuki
former CTO, Toshiba Corporation |
| 3:05 pm: Technical Innovation of Wide-Viewing-Angle LCD |
Kenji Okamoto
Sharp Corporation |
| 3:25 pm: BREAK |
| 3:45 pm: LG Display: The Opening of a New Era of Large-Size LCDs with State-of-the-Art Technologies |
InJae Chung
former CTO, LG Display |
| 4:05 pm: The First 40-in. LCD TV Prototype in 2001; The Initiation of the Large-Size LCD-TV Race |
Jun Souk
former CTO, Samsung Display |
| 4:25 pm: The (R)evolution of Liquid Crystals |
Mark Verrall
Senior Vice President of Research & Development, Merck KGaA |
| 4:45 pm: The STN Story |
Terry Scheffer
LCD Consultant, Steridian Corporation
Co-Inventor of Super-Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystals |
| 5:05 pm: PDLCs: Development and Display Applications |
William Doane
Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Kent Displays, Inc.
Co-Inventor of Polymer-Dispersed Liquid-Crystal Systems |
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