Quarterly Question
Q: Unlike conventional liquid crystal displays, ChLCDs do not use polarizers. Why?
A: Conventional LCDs use polarized light to create contrasting states and therefore require polarizers. ChLCDs do not make use of polarized light and as such do not require polarizers. Contrast is created from reflection of light directly from the LC material or absorption by an absorbing layer on the back of the display.
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Announcements
Embedded Systems Conference East
Kent Displays will exhibit at The 2005 Embedded Systems Conference, East to be held at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA September 12th - 15th. Our standard product line as well as our latest product developments will be exhibited at booth 925.
SID Journal
Presenting: Single Substrate Encapsulated Cholesteric LCDs: Coatable, Drapable, & Foldable
Publication - August 2005
S&T’s International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies
Presenting: Flexible Bistable Reflective Cholesteric Displays.
Presenter: Joel Domino; President Kent Displays
September 19, 2005
Baltimore, MD
Eurodisplay
Presenting: Novel Coated and Transferred Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display
Presenter: Irina Shiyanovskaya
Sep 19 - Sep 22, 2005
Edinburgh, Scotland
ADEAC
Presenting: Cholesteric LCDs: Applications, Interface, and Integration
Presenter: Duane Marhefka
Oct 24 - Oct 27, 2005
Portland, OR
The iPod Winners.
2005 Society of Information Displays iPod winners are:
Diana Melick of Symbol.
Patrick Carlini
Ron Court of ConMed
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Editor's Notes
Welcome to the Volume 1, issue 3 of Kent Displays, Inc. Quarterly Newsletter: The Liquid Crystal Twist. As the world leader in the research, development and manufacture of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display products, it is our hope to bring you interesting and useful information regarding ChLCD technology, products, distributors/representatives and customers each quarter.
In the News
Kent Displays Licenses its Cholesteric Technology to Fujitsu Frontech.
Kent Displays announces that it has licensed its Cholesteric "No Power" LCD Technology to Fujitsu Frontech Limited, of Tokyo, Japan, a leading manufacturer of electronic products. "We are pleased to add Fujitsu Frontech as one of our licensees. For many years they have been a world leader in manufacturing electronic products for industrial and consumer use. We view Fujitsu Frontech’s license as another endorsement of the Cholesteric Technology and our portfolio,” stated Joel C. Domino, President of Kent Displays.
Other current licensees of Kent’s Cholesteric patent portfolio include Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York; Nanox Corporation of Fukushima-City, Japan; Matsushita (Panasonic) of Osaka, Japan, Varitronix Ltd. of Hong Kong; Light Space Technologies of Norwalk, CT; and Vlyte Corp. of Limerick Ireland.
The “Distinguished Contributed Paper” of the 2005 SID International Symposium awarded to Kent Displays, Inc.
The Society of Information Displays awarded Kent Displays, Inc. the “Distinguished Contributed Paper” of the 2005 SID International Symposium held in Boston, MA this past May. Titled “Single Substrate Encapsulated Cholesteric LCDs: Coatable, Drapable and Foldable” by Shiyanovskaya et al, the publication discusses recent work in advancing bistable cholesteric display technology (ChLCD) to highly flexible, conformable, and drapable surfaces to enable new applications.
The displays are made purely from a coatable process and as such are a sharp departure from typical LCD manufacturing techniques. The potential for such displays is tremendous in applications ranging from large area signage to displays on various fabric materials for wearable functions. You may read the paper or view a movie of a display in motion.
Kent Displays Adds German Manufacturer’s Representative.
We are pleased to announce the addition of Actron of Germany to our list of manufacturers’ representatives. All Kent Displays representatives are equipped with sample products and would welcome the opportunity to demonstrate the superior optical properties of our "No Power" ChLCD. Seeing is believing; contact Kent Displays or the appropriate manufacturers’ representative for a product demonstration.
RoHS Directive – Restriction of Hazardous Substances.
The RoHS Directive, otherwise known as EU Directive 2002/95/EG, mandates that all electrical and electronic products sold in the European Union shall contain restricted levels of the following substances: lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated biphenyl ethers (PBDE). 1 July 2006 is the deadline for compliance.
Our compliance team, composed of members of engineering, manufacturing, purchasing and marketing, have been working together for the past several months in structured manner following IPC guidelines in order to insure that our products will meet the directive by the deadline. The new EVGA with SPI is an example of our efforts as it will meet the directive’s requirement for product shipped in Q4. There will be more information regarding our efforts to meet the directive in the next newsletter.
The Kent Displays, Inc. group at SID 2005
Bill, Xiao-Yang, Keith, Duane, Asad, Nick, Todd (hiding), Tess, Tod, Nithya, Steve, Irina, Holly, Joel, Forrest, Sankar, Scott, Matt, John, Tony and Seth on floor.
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