SEMI today rescheduled the Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) 2022 from January 9-12 to April 3-6 due to a resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States.
Displays
Organic Light Emitting Diodes Operated by 1.5 V Battery
Group of Assistant Professor Seiichiro Izawa and Professor Masahiro Hiramoto at Institute for Molecular Science in Japan, and Associate Professor Masahiro Morimoto and Professor Shigeki Naka at University of Toyama in Japan report that an efficient OLED, operable by a 1.5-V battery, that produces bright emission equivalent to luminance of a typical display.

Enabling Glass in a 300mm Si Line for Layer Transfer
Challenges and associated solutions in using glass in a standard 300mm Si fab are discussed. We demonstrate that functionalized glass wafers can pass all the requirements to enter a Si fab to enable layer transfer of RF components.
Ductile-Regime Vibration Texturing: Create Structural Colors on Brittle Silicon
Structural coloration stemming from microstructure-induced light interference has been recognized as a promising surface colorizing technology, based on its potential in a wide array of applications, including high-definition displays, anti-counterfeiting, refractive index sensing, and photonic gas and vapor sensing.

How Integrated Materials Solutions Speed Innovation
New solutions that rely on a unified database, machine learning and simulations are able to test, validate and provide customer insights into how materials work for new devices process flows, thereby speeding innovation.
Outlook for 2022: Executive Viewpoints
Each year, Semiconductor Digest turns to industry leaders and analysts to get their viewpoints on what they expect to see in the coming year in terms of critical tech and business trends. For 2022, in addition to ongoing technical advances, expect to see a focus on supply chain challenges, sustainability, the workforce shortage and reshoring.
PanelSemi Gears Up to Launch the World’s First Flexible AM Mini LED Display
PanelSemi Corporation, a Taiwan-based panel semiconductor provider, is unveiling the world’s first flexible Active-Matrix (AM) Mini LED Display, called Primary, at the upcoming Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2022 in Las Vegas, on January 5-8th.
LG Display Unveils Next-Generation OLED TV Display ‘OLED EX’
LG Display unveiled today its newest OLED TV technology ‘OLED EX’.
North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts November 2021 Billings
The billings figure is 5.0% higher than final October 2021 billings of $3.74 billion and 50.6% higher than November 2020 billings of $2.61 billion.
Fabricating Stable, High-mobility Transistors for Next-generation Display Technologies
The trade-off between carrier mobility and stability in amorphous oxide semiconductor-based thin film transistors (TFTs) has been finally overcome by researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) in an ingeniously fabricated indium tin zinc oxide TFT.