This report provides expert analysis on flat panel technology developments around the world.

Bringing it all together

What will you find? Each quarterly report explores major technology developments and provides analysis and insight on a wide range of topics:

• Device Technology
• Process Technology
• Component Technology
• Equipment Technology

These topics are covered for all display technologies including a-Si TFT LCDs, LTPS TFT LCDs, plasma, AMOLEDs, PMOLEDs, FEDs, flexible displays, reflective displays and 3D displays.

Use it to benchmark your competitors' latest developments and stay abreast of advancements in all technologies.

Is the OLED Display in Sony’s XEL-1 OLED TV as Good as it Looks?

OLED displays may well be at the heart of flat-panel TVs in the future. Sony has put a stake in the ground with the first commercially available OLED TV: the 11inch, 960 × 540 pixel, Model XEL-1, which is selling in limited quantities for the equivalent of $1700 in Japan and for $2500 in the US.

The XEL-1, with its dazzling images and thin form factor, represents just a precursor of what is yet to come with AMOLEDs. DisplaySearch takes the covers off the display and presents the technical design including the OLED stack, electronics and backplane.Learn how Sony achieves the fabulous performance, as DisplaySearch provides its own description of:

• Full white, red, green and blue lifetimes
• Video lifetime
• OLED sub pixel architecture
• Backplane sub pixel architecture
• Compensation scheme
• Description of the micro cavity and its function
• Use of the color filter
• Driving voltages
• Cooling system

Driving Forces

Stay informed on the challenges facing OLED technology and keep your eye on

• Profiles of key companies
• The differences between voltage-driven and current-driven electronics
• Material costs, performance, and changes over time
• Process and technology improvements

Use the forecasts and analysis in this valuable annual report to gain industry insight, track this rapidly growing market, and identify winning products, applications, and trends.

DisplaySearch analysts thoroughly examine low-temperature, poly-silicon (LTPS) technology in a 300+ page document. The only English-language report of its kind, this report explains the technology benefits, target applications and challenges of LTPS.

From manufacturing to the marketplace

In comprehensive textbook fashion, it takes readers through the fundamentals of LTPS TFT technology. Topics covered include production concerns, technology challenges and the status of potential breakthrough technologies. Each panel manufacturer's production status is revealed and their proprietary technologies are evaluated, and market share, and forecasts are provided.

• Evaluate specific equipment specification requirements for LTPS
• Gain critical insight into the LTPS market, from both a technology and market standpoint
• Pick up inside technology and market information
• Determine current LTPS challenges and how likely they will be solved
• Forecast the opportunity for LTPS panels in terms of units, revenues, size and other parameters

Gain a critical understanding of flexible displays as DisplaySearch compares this impressive technology to other display technologies. Find out if flexible displays pose a true challenge to LCDs or if they will carve out their own niche.

Winners and losers

• Learn from DisplaySearch's analysis of flexible displays' technical challenges and marketing potential.
• Track the companies leading the pack in R&D and innovation.
• Find out how 'flex' will compete against glass as companies jockey to bring this technology into the mainstream.
• See the strengths and weaknesses of various flexible display technologies.

Plasma panel displays have tremendous appeal to both the consumer and industrial market.The 2007 PDP Technology Report is a 200+ page comprehensive review of the evolution of plasma technology and where it is going.DisplaySearch's thorough analysis of PDP device, process and module technologies allows suppliers, manufacturers, brands, financial analysts and other companies in the plasma market to make well-informed strategic decisions.

What's next?

With the 2007 PDP Technology Report you will learn about the impact of new technology advancements, including higher luminous efficiencies of up to 10 lumens per watt, on cost and performance, including cost forecasts through 2011.