The Society for Information Display, or SID, is a trade organization concerned, as the name implies, with display technology. And there's far more to display technology than just televisions, as important as that segment is to us. Every year SID holds a conference covering topics as diverse as the foldable display and as compelling as papers such as Implementation of Full Panel IR‐Drop Simulation for AMOLED Display Using Current SPICE Toolkit. Seriously, the latter is typical of tech papers at all science-heavy conventions, as I learned years ago while occasionally attending the annual Audio Engineering Society (AES) event. I have no idea if full panel IR‐drop simulation for AMOLED displays is a critical development that will lead to future technological breakthroughs, but it might.
We don't usually attend the SID event, nor did we this year. Little of the arcana presented there will be of direct interest to our readers. But one topic covered at SID 2019 is worth noting. As summarized by a recent article in Insight Media, a trade publication, researchers are currently investigating the use of quantum dots for self-emissive displays. Self-emissive displays are currently a hot subject in video R&D. Another self-emissive development, demonstrated by Samsung and others in recent trade shows, uses super small LEDs, or as they're commonly known, Micro-LEDs. In such a display, the micro-LEDs themselves are the actual pixels...
