IST Work Programme 2003-2004 Specific Objective 2.3.2.1 Advanced Displays

1. IST Work Programme 2003-2004Specific Objective 2.3.2.1 Advanced Displays Call 2 NCP InfodayBrussels 24 June 2003 Marc Boukerche European Commission, IST programme Micro, nano systems and Displaysmarc.boukerche@cec.eu.int

2. Outline of presentation • Overall expectations in FP6 • Goal • priorities, structuring the ERA • Call 2 advance displays • topics covered • EoIs / proposals in the making

3. Advanced displays - the way forward • The EU is strong in R&D, materials & components, consumer / automotive / professional systems. Access to the technology is critical for them. • The EU is weak (though active) in local manufacturing but involved in global mass-manufacturing and licensing The goal is to benefit from existing and emerging strengths matching WW demands ,e.g. OLEDs, to benefit future employment in the EU and industrial activities now de-facto global • There is a need to: Structure EU activities in the display technology area: existing R&D projects by institutes and industry, national initiatives (ex: DFF in Germany, Large area electronics platform in F..), nationally funded projects AND IST projects

4. Advanced displays - priorities • The same - though likely on a more reduced scale - for visualisation solutions for small high content terminals • Very large displays for the consumer are currently challenged by 3 technologies with NO commonalties: projection, plasma & AMLCDs. They require incremental improvements and the EU is moderately active except at system level.However specific synergies with the above could exist: microdisplays, OLEDs/flexible, manufacturing.. Very innovative (ex: wallpaper) and industrially sound approaches could be the subject of STREPS • Topics not fitting this SO call:FED, plasma, narrow topics alone, sensors

5. Outline of presentation • Overall expectations in FP6 • Goal • priorities, structuring the ERA • Call 2 advance displays • topics covered • EoIs / proposals in the making

6. Call 2 Advanced displays - Specific Objective 25 MEuro • Key Objectives & Breakthroughs • organic / flexible display technologies • lightweight near-to-the-eye • information terminals • large size displays for the consumer • Research Tasks • organic materials, flexible substrates • display solutions for small form factor high information content communicators • overcoming today’s 3D multi-viewer dynamic visualisation complexity and limitations

7. Call 2 Advanced displays • organic / flexible display technologies • Organic / polymer displays:materials for better light efficiency & robustness (better blue), optimisation of active diode (doping profile, contacts), solution based and printing processes • Flexible technologies:substrates (steel, plastic, glass), barriers, interconnects, active matrixing (LTpSi, aSi, organics), fitting to existing and new display technologies, volume manufacturing • Organic electronics:materials for higher performance and better stability, architectures and building blocks, interconnects, very low cost manufacturing Instruments: IPs / NoEs pulling together and structuring the necessary activities from the large pool of existing efforts, STREPS, CAs

8. Call 2 Advanced displays • Lightweight / Near-to-the-eye for high performance terminals on the move Innovative conceptsto overcome the visual information bottleneck and the low power requirements • Near to the eye:microdisplays & micro-optics, retina-writing • Direct view: reflective, micro-projectors • System concepts for user acceptability, low power, high integration and communication Instruments: moderate size IPs / NoEs pulling together and structuring the necessary activities, STREPS, CAs IST project MULTIPLEYE

9. Call 2 Advanced displays • Large area and slim displays for the consumer: The opportunity for new technologiesis closing down with the advancement of LCDs, plasma & projection.However disruptive conceptsare still searched for: ex.: curved & wallpaper TVs, 50 inch hang-on-the-wall TV for <1000 Euro Not called for: Plasma, mainstream LCDs, FEDs Instruments: STREPS

10. Call 2 Advanced displays • 3DData acquisition, processing and re-construction are well advanced, but the visualisation is limited by the display requirements • New concepts beyond stereo: true 3D rendering for multiviewers and video without glasses. Ex.: volumetric, integral imaging, holography.. • Data processing optimised for the displays, data compression and standardisation • Physiology of 3D perception. Application to data compression and ergonomic visualisation Instruments: STREPS, CAs Courtesy SeeReal TechnologiesDresden

11. Outline of presentation • Overall expectations in FP6 • Goal • priorities, structuring the ERA • Call 2 advance displays • topics covered • EoIs / proposals in the making

12. Advanced displays - previous EoIs/proposals More than 40 Expressions of Interest were submitted a year ago(See attached updated list) After the last meetings in Brussels: consultation on 27 May 2002 and information day on 26 March 2003, EoI consolidations are being made towards proposals submissions. Several EoIs submitted as IPs were actually for STREPs.Now that the new instruments are better understood, we expect only a reduced and modified set to be actually submitted

13. Advanced displays - EoIs / possible proposals The list with E-mail contacts is provided on paper. Links to EoIs abstracts can be found at: http://eoi.cordis.lu/ Thank you for your attention Marc Boukerche EC-INFSO/C2 marc.boukerche@cec.eu.intT: +32-22968069F: +32-22998249