INDUSTRY NEWS

SID adds two chapters

The Society for Information Display (SID) has formed two new chapters, one in India and the other in Singapore/ Malaysia. The interim director of the India chapter is K. R. Sarma. B. A. Ghani is the interim director of the Singapore/Malaysia chapter. The additional chapters bring the total number of SID affiliates to 26. Based in San Jose, the nonprofit organization has expanded in recent years by adding chapters in Europe as well as in the U.S. Southwest and Pacific Northwest.

In related news, SID has launched a redesigned Web site at http://www. sid.org. The site focuses on industry news with short articles and newproduct columns edited by the staff of SID's Information Display magazine. An industry directory, organized by both company and products, is also featured. An international calendar of display-related conferences will be updated weekly. The site also contains a directory of the organization's 6400 members.

'Vanishing' LCD disappears?

A new display technology can make LCDs more readable than current small-screen displays, its developers say. Delta Optoelectronics and Dow Chemical claim that their new polymeric light-emitting diode (pLED) screens can be read more easily than LEDs that must be viewed either straight on or when backlit. The high brightness of the pLEDs "gives them excellent visibility from a wide viewing angle," says Chun-hui Tsai, general manager of Delta Optoelectronics in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Delta's displays use Dow Chemical's green polyfluorene copolymer. The material is capable of producing light as bright as a television screen using only a small power source, Dow says. The displays are well suited for use in cellular phones and other wireless devices because of their high-contrast images and thinness, according to Dow. Information: 800/ 441-4369.

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