Handbook of Visual Display Technology

The third edition of the remarkable Handbook of Visual Display Technology offers readers a comprehensive overview of the science and technology of visual displays and the economic and human interface factors associated with the displays industry. Unique in the displays field, the Handbook serves as a single reference source with expert contributions from over 150 international display professionals and academic researchers.

The Handbook contains extensive coverage of established and emerging display technologies, with discussion of physical principles, materials science and processing, device technologies and particular areas of application. The wide-ranging content also encompasses the fundamental science of light and vision, image acquisition and manipulation, display materials and processing techniques, TFTs, display driving and metrology. Prominence is given to liquid crystal displays, with later chapters devoted to emerging technologies including flexible displays, electrophoretic, electrowetting and electrofluidic displays and MEMS-based displays. Other sections consider 3D display solutions, projection systems and head-worn displays.

Updated and extended throughout, the third edition has been extensively reorganized and expanded with new material on micro-LEDS and OLEDs, inorganic semiconductor TFT technology, foldable displays, other emerging display technologies, augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality, and market considerations. 

“...no engineering or science library can be without this book. It will be an asset for all companies engaged in display and display-related business.” – extract from the Foreword of the 1st Edition by Dr M Anandan, President, Society for Information Display.  

Karlheinz Blankenbach graduated in physics from the University of Ulm, Germany, where he also received his PhD in 1988. Until 1995, he was with AEG-MIS, Germany, a subsidiary of DAIMLER. In 1995, Karlheinz was appointed as full professor at Pforzheim University, Germany, launching the university's display lab.
His main R&D activities are on display systems, display hardware and software, as well as display metrology. This resulted in many lectures, papers, and projects (governmental and industrial funded).
He is member of the Society for Information Display's subcommittee“ automotive/vehicular displays and HMI technologies” and SID's “International Committee for Display Metrology” (ICDM). Karlheinz is chairman of the board of the Displayforum, an industrial network focussing on professional displays since 2011 and chairman of the "electronic displays Conference" (edC, Nuremberg, Germany).

Qun (Frank) Yan has established well-known reputation as a leading expert in display industry, especially in the field of emissive display. He has tracking record of making initial technology innovation into manufacturing technology and creating consumer electronic products successfully in high yield mass production. In his 20 years display career he developed many new materials, production processes technology, device structures, driving waveforms and measurement methods for display products. He has over 45 journal publications, 30 conference presentations, and 25 display technology related patents in his professional career. Due to his outstanding contributions to display technology, he won SID (Society for Information Display) Special Recognition Award in 2013 and SID Fellow Award in 2017. He is currently the director of SID Beijing Chapter and the general manager of SID China, the only SID operational entity outside USA. He is the Chair of Display Technology Training School Committee at SID. The MircoLED was introducedto SID emissive display subcommittee by him when he was the chair of emissive display subcommittee from 2014-2017. He currently is full time professor at Fuzhou University at Fujian province in China, he is also holding joint professorship at Fudan University, Xian Jiaotong University, and Southeast University.
He was the chief scientist for Changhong Electric Group, one of the largest consumer electronics conglomerate in China. He has led the team successfully developed high luminous efficiency technology, greatly reduced the power consumption of plasma TV over 50%, achieved the best luminous efficacy PDP in the world. Prior to his job at Changhong, he was the chief research scientist at Panasonic Plasma Display Laboratory of America Inc. (formerly Plasmaco, 1997-2008). He led the effort of the development of new material, new device structure, and new driving waveform for next generation plasma display panel (PDP) and improving process for panel production. Before his industry job, he was a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee between 1995 and 1997. He holds Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee and M.S. and B. S. in physics from Fudan University at Shanghai, in China.

Robert J (Bob) O’Brien is Co-Founder and President of DSCC. Bob has decades of experience turning market and business analysis into strategic insights in the display and electronics industries. At DSCC, Bob takes the lead role in analysis of display materials, including glass and AMOLED materials, and covers developments in TV and other large-screen display applications.  He is the principal author of DSCC’s AMOLED Material Report, the Advanced TV Shipment Report, and the Display Glass Report, and Bob contributes regularly to the DSCC Weekly Review.
Working at Corning from 2005-2016, as Director of Market Intelligence and Strategy for Corning Glass Technologies Bob developed an intelligence infrastructure to inform pricing strategy, product development, marketing communications and customer service strategy. He also developed external communications for investors and customers to realize Corning’s industry leading position.
Bob led the CGT intelligence team in building critical tools for analysis of both short- and long-term dynamics in the LCD industry. In response to Corning’s vulnerability to supply/demand swings, Bob developed an analytical model for predicting glass demand based on the supply/demand dynamics of the LCD value chain. The output of this model is frequently quoted in Corning’s earnings release and other communications. To increase understanding of the long-term dynamics of TV replacement, Bob led the efforts on consumer survey work to understand the replacement cycle of TV. As the cover glass market matured, Bob led the effort to explore and develop the Gorilla glass business in emerging markets.
Prior to Corning, Bob worked in engineering, product marketing, finance, and business intelligence for Philips Display Components and LG.Philips Displays. At Philips, Bob led a multi-division team evaluating potential opportunities in large display technologies, with comparative market and technology analysis of LCD, PDP, CRT, and projection. Bob prepared and executed financial and marketing expertise on the plasma display business for the due diligence process during the 2001 international merger which formed LG.Philips Displays.
Bob holds a BS in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Michigan Business School. He lives in Ann Arbor, MI with his wife Mattie and three sons. He can be reached at bob.obrien@displaysupplychain.com.