Display Week 2025
At Display Week 2025, Smartkem—known for its organic transistor materials—unveiled a new backlight system designed to enable RGB and frame sequential backlights for LCDs. This innovation could open the door for frame sequential LCDs, a promising path to delivering high-performance 8K displays with enhanced efficiency and color accuracy. Explore how Smartkem’s materials science is helping shape the future of display technology.
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Another Step Towards Better, Cheaper 8K OLED Displays
Read more: Another Step Towards Better, Cheaper 8K OLED DisplaysAt the SID Display Week, scientists from the Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co Ltd (SEL) in Japan showed a remarkably good looking 8K OLED display with just an 8.3″ diagonal. The details of the research that led to the demo are available online as the paper was recognized as a Distinguished Paper by the SID. SEL…
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Research Paper Confirms 8K Visibility
Read more: Research Paper Confirms 8K VisibilityAt the recent SID Display Week event in San Jose, one of the papers (P-29) caught our attention as the authors had investigated the “Perceptual Visual Quality of UHD-2/8K on Consumer Display”. The authors of the paper were Hosub Lee and Bill Mandel of Samsung Research America and image quality maven, Pawel Achtel, the developer…
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Display Week Sees New 8K Developments in LCD and OLED
Read more: Display Week Sees New 8K Developments in LCD and OLEDThe SID Display Week (DW 2025) is a fascinating blend of the academic and the commercial. As well as scientists, academics and engineers and researchers, there is an exhibition full of sales and marketing people. There’s a well established Business Conference that takes a full day (although this time it was split over two ‘half…
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A New Paper on 8K Viewing to be Presented at Display Week 2025
Read more: A New Paper on 8K Viewing to be Presented at Display Week 2025An interesting thread published on LinkedIn explained that new work done to understand the visible difference of 8K to lower resolutions will be published and presented at Display Week in San Jose in May. A critical part of the study was to ensure that the content judged was actually captured in 8K rather than merely…





