JSR Additional strategic investment in US startup with innovative 3D printing technology

JSR announced that it has made additional $25 million strategic investment in Carbon, Inc.

Carbon, Inc. developed proprietary DLS (Digital Light Synthesis) technology and CLIP (Continuous Liquid Interface Production) technology which enables faster printing speed, superior physical properties and exceptional surface finishing of 3D printed object. JSR invested $5 million in September last year and has conducted market survey and feasibility study in Japan and Asia.

JDI Announces Development 803ppi LCD Specifically Designed for Virtual Reality Applications

Japan Display (JDI) announced the development of a 3.6-inch 803ppi low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT-LCD specifically designed for virtual reality (VR) head mount display (HMD) applications. JDI has been accelerating development of even higher ppi LTPS-TFT-LCDs for HMD, and will finish development of an LTPS-TFT-LCD with over 1000ppi within the first half of 2018.

Tokyo Electron Begins Accepting Orders for Betelex 1800 PICP, a Dry Etch System for High Resolution FPD

Tokyo Electron (TEL) announced that it has begun accepting orders for the BetelexTM 1800 PICP, a dry etch system capable of processing the 6th generation glass substrates (1500 x 1850 mm). The Betelex 1800 PICP supports up to five chambers featuring a Planar Inductively Coupled Plasma (PICP) mode for high resolution processes.

The Betelex 1800 PICP supports up to five process chambers, enabling a significant productivity increase over the previous model which supported up to three chambers. Because the same level of production volume can be maintained with fewer mainframes, the Betelex 1800 PICP can reduce the overall system footprint and associated facility cost to customers.

Ushio and Picosun start collaboration in Japan

Ushio and Picosun Oy, a leading supplier of advanced Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) thin film coating solutions, announced that they have started collaboration to boost the sales of Picosun's ALD technology in the Japanese market.

Ushio is a well-known, well-established supplier of a wide variety of manufacturing equipment to the global semiconductor market, and Picosun's fully automated, SEMI-compliant, and production line compatible industrial ALD systems will be a key addition to their portfolio.

JOLED to Begin Commercial Shipment of World's First Printing OLED

JOLED announced to commercialize the world's first OLED panel produced using the “RGB printing method”, and began product shipment on December, 2017.

The product is a 21.6-inch 4K high-resolution OLED panel produced using the printing method. The product has already been selected for use in medical monitors, and JOLED will gradually ship the product for use in a variety of applications.

DIC and Nanosys Announce Collaboration in the Development of Inks for Use in the Production of Inkjet-Printed QD Color Filters for Displays

DIC and Nanosys (USA) announced that they are working together to develop inks for use in the production of inkjet-printed quantum dot color filters (QDCFs) for displays.

Nanosys is a top QD manufacturer with extensive expertise and multiple exclusive patents. DIC is one of the world's largest manufacturers of printing inks and boasts an extensive portfolio of dispersion, mixing, resin and other technologies used in ink development and production. By collaborating on development, the two companies seek to leverage Nanosys’expertise in cadmium-free QDs and DIC's inkjet ink design technologies to develop the world's first cadmium-free QD inkjet inks for the inkjet printing of QDCFs.

DIC will continue promoting development with the goal of marketing QD inkjet inks, which will join the Company's LC materials and organic pigments for color filters as key offerings in this area, in 2020.

Panasonic Develops Unique Vacuum Insulated Glass Based on Its PDP Technology

Panasonic announced it has developed and succeeded in mass production of thin, high-performance vacuum insulated glass by applying technologies the company accumulated in the development and manufacturing of PDPs. The glass achieves a heat transfer coefficient (Ug value) of 0.7 (W/m²K), the industry's top-class insulation performance for glass with a total thickness of 6 mm, which is equal to or greater than triple glass containing Ar gas with a total thickness of about 3 cm.
The company realized a practical vacuum insulated glass with excellent insulation performance by developing a new slim-model gas adsorbent that adsorbs the gas that occurs within the vacuum layer, and a new low thermal conductive component that forms a 0.1 mm gap between the two sheets of glass. Due to the unique manufacturing method the company developed, the exhaust hole sealing component required to form the vacuum space is not present on glass surface, which gives a smooth, flat product appearance.

This new vacuum insulated glass will be first used by Hussmann Corporation, the U.S. refrigerator and freezer showcase manufacturer wholly-owned by Panasonic, prior to commercialization.

Sumitomo Chemical to Expand Production Capacity for High-Purity Chemicals for Semiconductors in Xi'an, China

Sumitomo Chemical announced to expand its production capacity for high-purity chemicals for semiconductors at Sumika Electronic Materials (Xi'an), a wholly owned subsidiary in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, China, bringing the subsidiary's total capacity to nearly twice the current level. The expanded facility is scheduled to start commercial-scale production in early 2019.