52‐1: Invited Paper: Driving Forces ‐ How Mobility of Tomorrow Influences Technologies of Today

Abstract

The mobility needs of modern societies, cities and users are different from the past. Consequently, the dynamic changes of the automotive industry trigger both challenges and opportunities. The presentation will discuss these trends and plausible future scenarios. In order to facilitate these positive changes, we recognised the potential of innovative technologies, including the liquid crystal displays. As the display is the key interface between users and devices/ vehicles, key industry players have acknowledged its significant role in attaining users' satisfaction. The presentation will outline several initiatives driving technology developments to fulfil the emerging needs. In the open innovation era, few companies can claim to possess all future technologies in-house. Therefore, collaborations among players with complementary technologies are especially essential to accelerate new product/ service/ solution development. New industry formation also requires new quality of communication among key value chain players to learn industry insight and to establish mutually beneficial partnerships. The rationale and the objectives of our automotive platform will be introduced.

27‐1: Invited Paper: OLCD: Manufacturing Glass‐free Vehicle Displays

“…The glass carrier can also be damaged in the process. Organic Liquid Crystal Displays (OLCDs) have a similar construction to glass Thin Film Transistor (TFT)-LCDs, but with an organic TFT (OTFT) array on plastic film replacing the amorphous Silicon (a-Si) TFT array on glass [5]. The use of OTFT technology enables the manufacture of a fully plastic LCD display that has both a plastic backplane and a plastic front window, and with TFT electrical performance better than the a:Si TFT it replaces.…”

44.2: Invited Paper: Printed Polymer TFTs Towards Low‐Cost Backplane Production

“…Confidence is now high that there really is an organic alternative to the traditional inorganic or siliconbased semiconductor technologies. New applications for these exciting materials include organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) for flexible display backplanes, of interest particularly in the automotive sector [1].…”