Display materials and technologies

This issue of Opticheski˘ı Zhurnal is devoted to one of the most dynamically evolving and innovative specializations— display materials and their technologies. Ten years ago, the most widely used devices in this area were unwieldy and heavy television monitors and displays with cathode-ray tubes. Then flat-screen liquid-crystal and plasma screens appeared, and still later AMOLED displays, which are now used in smart phones and communicators but have good prospects of becoming the new display technology within the next 5–10 yr. Another important trend in information-display facilities is the wide use of three-dimensional displays. That is, the development and replacement of generations of devices are rapid in this area. The Eighteenth International Conference on Transmission Display Technologies and Electroluminescence, lasting from September 28 to October 1 at the St. Petersburg State Technological Institute (Technical University) [SPbGTI(TU)], with the support of the international Society for Information Displays, was devoted to the latest developments and innovations in display technology. SPbGTI(TU) has a rich history in the area of display developments. It is sufficient to recall that the father of modern television, V. K. Zvorykin, studied at the Technological Institute with another founder of television, B. L. Rozing. About 200 scientists from various countries of the world, including Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Europe, and the USA, took part in the conference under the chairmanship of the director of the Department of the Theoretical Bases of Material Science of SPbGTI(TU), M. M. Sychev. These scientists represented the leading scientific schools in the area of information-display technologies, as well as the manufacturers of displays and materials for them, such as LG and Samsung (Korea), Pryzm Inc. (USA), SAES Getters (Italy), ELISAR (Russia), Disple ´ ˘ı Design Office (Belarus), etc. This issue of Opticheski˘ı Zhurnal presents articles prepared on the basis of and developing a number of the most interesting reports delivered at the conference.