Final Call for Papers
IDW ’08 - The 15th International Display Workshops
December 3-5, 2008
Toki Messe Niigata Convention Center, Niigata, Japan
Sponsored by
The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
The Society for Information Display
The latest information is available on http://www.idw.ne.jp/

IDW ’08 FEATURES
IDW ’08 will integrate thirteen workshops in specialized fields playing important roles in information display activities. Eachworkshop will consist of invited and contributed papers for oral and poster presentations. Detailed discussions on eachspecialized R&D update will be provided. The workshops should be of interest not only to researchers and engineers, but also
to those who manage companies and institutions in the display community.

Keynote Address

CONFERENCE SITE
Toki Messe Niigata Convention Center is located at the mouth of the
Shinano River near JR Niigata Station (20 minutes on foot, 10 minutes by bus or 5 minutes by taxi). Niigata is located in the center of
the Japanese Islands and 250 km north of Tokyo.
Niigata City can be easily accessed from Tokyo by the JR Joetsu
Shinkansen (100 minutes), which arrives approximately every 30
minutes.
There are direct flights from New Chitose Airport (75 minutes), Central Japan International Airport (Centrair) (60 minutes), and Osaka
Airport (60 minutes) to Niigata Airport. Niigata Airport is also aninternational gateway with regular flights from Incheon, Shanghai,Xi'an and other international cities. It takes 25 minutes by bus from
Niigata Airport to JR Niigata Station.
For more information please refer to the following websites:
Toki Messe Niigata Convention Center: http://www.tokimesse.com/english/
Niigata Visitors and Convention Bureau: http://www.nvcb.or.jp/en/• The Rise of “Eco” Televisions: Opportunity or
Challenge?
Theo J.M. Schoenmakers(Philips)• QoE Based IPTV Services
Jay Kishigami(NTT)

The titles are tentative.

Invited Address• Learning from Monet: Renown Artists and Display
DesignCharles M. Falco(Univ. of Arizona)
The title is tentative.
An additional talk is being arranged.

DEADLINES AND KEY DATES
Submission of Technical Summary--------- June 27, 2008
Acceptance Notification/Author’s Kit available on the website--------- July 24, 2008
Submission of Camera-ready Manuscript & Abstract-------- September 10, 2008
Submission of Late-News Paper--------- September 26, 2008
Advance Registration-------- November 21, 2008

REGISTRATION FEES
by Nov. 7
after Nov. 7
Member of SID/ITE/ASO*¥ 30,000¥ 40,000
Non-member¥ 40,000¥ 50,000
Student¥ 8,000¥ 10,000
Life member of SID/ITE¥ 8,000¥ 10,000*Academic supporting organizations

LANGUAGE
The official language is English.

EXHIBITION
The IDW ’08 Exhibition, which will be held from December 3
through December 5, covers materials, components,
manufacturing and measuring equipment, software systems
and other related products for display devices. Please join-in
and enjoy discussions at exhibitor's booths.
Contact the IDW ’08 Secretariat for detailed information.

IDW ’08 CHAIRSGeneral Chair
Y. Shimodaira (Shizuoka Univ.)
general-chair@idw.ne.jp

Executive Chair
K. Betsui (Hitachi)
executive-chair@idw.ne.jp

Program Chair
A. Mikami (Kanazawa Inst. of Tech.)program-chair@idw.ne.jp

The Advance Program will be available in September 2008, including REGISTRATION and HOTEL INFORMATION.

WORKSHOP OUTLINESLCTWorkshop on
LC Science and Technologies

Workshop Chair: H. Fujikake (NHK)This workshop will cover all aspects of liquid crystal (LC) science andtechnologies, ranging from fundamental material research to display
and other applications. An in-depth discussion on advanced LC displays will be emphasized.
Topic Areas
1) LC materials science (physicochemical, nano-structural and thermal studies)2) Surface alignment and characterization techniques3) Electro-optic effect, display mode, optical design and simulations
4) Processing, manufacturing, measuring and evaluation techniques
5) High performance display featuring excellent image quality
6) Flexible display and electronic paper applications
7) Functional devices for other various applications
8) LC semiconductor and organic electronics
9) LC photonic crystal and lasers

AMD

Workshop on
Active Matrix Displays

Workshop Chair: M. Kimura (Ryukoku Univ.)
This workshop will cover all aspects of active matrix displays.
Topic Areas
1) Fundamental principles, new materials, device structures, fabrication processes, design technologies, evaluation methods, addressing schemes, driving circuits, video electronics, monitor
controllers, signal interfaces, display technologies, novel applications, etc.
2) Active devices for active matrix displays: amorphous-Si TFTs,
poly-Si TFTs, microcrystalline-Si TFTs, oxide-semiconductor
TFTs, compound-semiconductor TFTs, organic TFTs, etc.
3) Display devices for active matrix displays: LCDs, OLEDs, electronic papers, FEDs, microdisplays, etc.

FMC

Workshop on
FPD Manufacturing,
Materials and Components

Workshop Chair: Y. Ukai (Sony)
This workshop will cover technology trends and flat panel displays(FPDs) from the perspective of manufacturing, materials, components
and systems.
Topic Areas
1) Trends in FPD materials, components and systems
2) Technical trends in panel construction3) Optical materials and systems4) Color filter materials5) Lighting materials, components and systems
6) Materials for processes
7) Equipment for processes and measurements
8) Ecology, 3R (Recycle, Reduce and Reuse)

PDP

Workshop on
Plasma Displays

Workshop Chair: K. Nunomura (Pioneer)This workshop will cover all aspects of science, technologies andapplications of plasma display panels.
Topic Areas
1) Fundamental mechanisms
2) Panel configurations
3) Materials, components and fabrication processes4) Driving techniques, signal processing and image quality

PH

Workshop on EL Displays
and Phosphors

Workshop Chair: Y. Nakanishi (Shizuoka Univ.)
This workshop will include a discussion on current topics in EL displays(ELDs), LEDs and phosphors, and will also deal with phosphor
application, phosphor screens for CRTs, plasma displays (PDPs), fieldemission displays (FEDs) and other emissive displays.
Topic Areas
1) Inorganic ELDs (materials, process, devices, drive circuits, etc.)
2) LEDs (materials, devices, panels, lighting, etc.)
3) Phosphors (for CRTs, PDPs, FEDs, VFDs, LEDs, etc.)

FED

Workshop on
Field Emission Display
and CRT

Workshop Chair: M. Takai (Osaka Univ.)
The following topics will be covered in this workshop.
Topic Areas
1) Fundamental mechanisms and configurations
2) Modeling and simulation
3) Materials, components and fabrication processes
4) Field emission physics and characteristics5) Driving technologies and signal processing6) Picture quality, reliability and lifetime
7) Applications8) Miscellaneous topics related with field emitters9) Entire field of CRT

OLEDWorkshop on
Organic LED Displays

Workshop Chair: T. Inoue (TDK)This workshop will cover all aspects of science and technologies oforganic LED displays, ranging from materials research and basic
device physics to display and other applications.
Topic Areas
1) Material (Dyes and Polymers) for organic LED displays
2) Problems related with electrodes and interfaces
3) Device physics and efficiency
4) Display applications
5) Fabrication processes
6) Active and passive matrix circuits and systems
7) Reliability and lifetime8) Miscellaneous topics related with organic LED displays
9) Fundamental mechanisms and configurations of organic LEDs andorganic TFTs
10) Organic TFTs for organic LED displays
11) Light-emitting transistors12) Organic LED for lightings

3D

Workshop on
3D/Hyper-Realistic Displays
and Systems

Workshop Chair: I. Yuyama (Utsunomiya Univ.)
This workshop will cover several current topics encompassing 3D/
hyper-realistic displays, systems and other related technologies.
Topic Areas
1) Stereoscopic, holographic and other 3D display technologies andsystems2) Immersive, interactive and VR display technologies and systems
3) New applications using 3D/hyper-realistic displays
4) 3D image coding, 2D to 3D conversion, multi-viewpoint
representation and other 3D/hyper-realistic image processing5) Human factor and evaluation of 3D/hyper-realistic display
techniques and systems

VHF

Workshop on Applied
Vision and Human Factors

Workshop Chair: H. Isono (Nippon Inst. of Tech.)This workshop will cover all aspects of vision, human factors andimage quality related with displays, such as the followings.
Topic Areas
1) Display image quality: models, metrics and evaluation methods
2) Characteristic display requirements regarding image quality:
luminance, contrast, gray-scale, color, resolution, sharpness, viewing
angle, etc.
3) Spatio-temporal image artifacts on displays and their improvements
4) Display measurements relevant to human factors5) Display ergonomics and their standards6) Legibility and usability issues for text displays or electronic papers
7) Actions and behaviors that are consequences of visually displayed
information
8) Visual quality and optometric factors in virtual displays

LAD

Workshop on Projection andLarge-Area Displays,
and Their Components

Workshop Chair: Z. Tajima (Mobara Atecs)
This workshop will cover current topics in projection and large-areadisplays, and their components.
Topic Areas
1) Projector, embedded Projector and projection TV using microdisplays2) Microdisplay technology for projection3) Optics and video signal processing for projection4) Optical components (light source, illumination, screen, lenses, etc.)
for projection5) Algorithm and image processing for large screen displays
6) Digital cinema
7) Large-area display systems

EP

Workshop on
Electronic Paper

Workshop Chair: M. Omodani (Tokai Univ.)
This workshop will cover all aspects of electronic paper, rewritable
paper, and paper-like display.
Topic Areas
1) Display methods for Electronic Paper
2) Materials, components, and fabrication processes3) Driving techniques4) Human-interface on Electronic Paper
5) Discussion on concepts of Electronic Paper
6) Electronic book and Electronic newspaper7) Other applications of Electronic paper

MEMS

Workshop on
MEMS for Future Displays
and Related Electron Devices

Workshop Chair: M. Nakamoto (Shizuoka Univ.)
This workshop will cover all aspects of science and technologies of
MEMS for future displays, imaging devices, and related electron
devices, ranging from materials research and basic device physics todisplay and other applications.
Topic Areas
1) Displays, imaging devices and other optical and electron devices
using MEMS (NEMS)
2) Optical MEMS such as optical scanners, optical switches, opticalmirrors, optical space modulators, optical filters, etc.
3) Sensors and actuators for electromagnetic wave, infrared rays,
ultraviolet rays, X-rays, visible rays, supersonic wave, hearing,
touching, smell, taste, etc.
4) Materials, components and fabrication processes
5) Fundamental mechanisms and configurations
6) Miscellaneous topics related to MEMS displays

DES

Workshop on
Display Electronic Systems

Workshop Chair: H. Okumura (Toshiba)This workshop will cover all aspects of electronic systems including
hardware as well as software on all kinds of displays.

IDW Best Paper Award andIDW Outstanding Poster Paper Award

Topic Areas
1) Video processing including deinterlace, scaling, and elimination of
artifacts and blur2) High quality color reproduction including high dynamic range andwide color gamut
3) High-fidelity systems such as master monitors
4) Exploration of future standards such as post-HDTV
5) Video interface technologies including data transmission andstorage
6) Novel display systems including mobile/auto applications
7) Cooperative operations of functional components
8) Circuit technologies including high speed and low power driving

IDW will present “IDW Best Paper” and “IDW
Outstanding Poster Paper” awards. The awardscommittee of IDW will select the most outstanding
papers from those presented at IDW ’08. The
award winners will be announced on the IDW
website and given a plaque after the conference.

Invited Talks• Liquid Crystal Alignment on Patterned Structure
Masanori Ozaki(Osaka Univ.)• Oxide TFT Backplane Technologies for AMOLED: Recent
Development & Technical Issues
Yeon-Gon Mo(Samsung SDI)
• Power Reduction of LCTVs with an Adaptive Dimming
Technique for Standard TV Programs
Tomokazu Shiga(Univ. of Electro-Commun.)• Ultra-Large Area Film Display by Plasma Tube Array
Technology
Manabu Ishimoto(Shinoda Plasma)• Recent Progress of Nitride Phosphors
Hajime Yamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Tech.)• FED for Cars
Shigeo Ito(Futaba)• OLED Technologies for Future TV Application
Takatoshi Tsujimura(Kodak Japan)• New Materials and New Device Structures for High
Performance OLEDs
Sehwan Son(LG Chem)• Perceived Depth and Size of Real Object and the 2D Image
Hirohiko Kaneko(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)• Measurement Standard for Flat Panel Displays
Joe Miseli(Sun Microsystems)• Super-Slim Laser TV with Newly Developed Laser Light
SourcesHiroaki Sugiura(Mitsubishi Electric)• Electrowetting-Based Displays for Portable Multi-Media
DevicesJohan Feenstra(Liquavista)• Recent Molecular Nano Device Progress
Iwao Ohdomari(Waseda Univ.)• The Dynamic Resolution of Video Display Systems
Michiel A. Klompenhouwer(Philips Res. Labs.)

The titles are tentative.
Additional invited talks are being arranged.

IDW ’08 OVERSEAS ADVISORS
P. J. Bos

(Kent State Univ., USA)
Phone: +1-330-672-2511
J. Burroughes (Cambridge Display Tech.,UK)
Phone: +44-1954-713600
N. Fruehauf (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany)
Phone: +49-711-685-66922
M.-K. Han
(Seoul Nat. Univ., Korea)
Phone: +82-2-880-7992
I. Heynderickx(Philips Res.,
The Netherlands)
Phone: +31-40-274-7855
J. Jang(Kyung Hee Univ., Korea)
Phone: +82-2-961-0270

H.-S. Kwok
T. LoweE. Lueder
F.-C. LuoM. H. Oh
J.-N. Perbet(Hong Kong Univ. of S&T,
Hong Kong)
Phone: +852-2358-7056(Lambent Consultancy, UK)
Phone: +44-1794-368366(Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany)
Phone: +1-480-451-8074(AU Optronics, Taiwan)
Phone: +886-3-563-2939(Dankook Univ., Korea)
Phone: +82-2-709-2700(Thales Avionics, France)
Phone: +33-556-13-5440

I. SageK. R. Sarma
H.-P. D. Shieh
D. TheisL. F. Weber(QinetiQ, UK)
Phone: +44-1684-895026(Honeywell International,
USA)
Phone: +1-602-436-6415(Nat. Chiao Tung Univ.,
Taiwan)Phone: +886-3-572-0409(Siemens, Germany)
Phone: +49-175-433-0978(Consultant, USA)
Phone: +1-845- 255-4551

PAPER SUBMISSIONINSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION OFTECHNICAL SUMMARY
Submit a Technical Summary via the conference website;

http://idw.ee.uec.ac.jp/authinfo.html
in PDF or Microsoft Word.
Follow the submission instructions given on the website andshown below. If you have any difficulties with online
submission, please send a Paper Application Form and a
Technical Summary by June 27, 2008, to the IDW ’08
Secretariat. The Paper Application Form is available on theconference website. The Technical Summary will be used only
for the evaluation and will not be published.

I.

Technical Summary Guidelines

The file should be formatted as A4-sized pages. A sample fileis available on the website.
One or two pages of text in one column, with additional pages
for figures/tables/photographs. It should include the following
items:(1) Questions to Authors: Select the number of authors, affiliations,and maximum number of affiliations for one author.
(2) Paper Title & Author Information: Input the paper title, namesof all authors, all affiliations, and presenting author information.
Please understand that the title may be edited by the programcommittee.
An acceptance notification will be sent to you via the e-mailaddress which you indicated on the web.
(3) Confirmation & Submission: Please take time to review thepaper title and the author information carefully as mistakes cannot
be rectified after upload.
Select a file type and a file name of the Technical Summary tosubmit to our server. When the file is successfully uploaded, a“FINISH” message will appear on the screen and you will also
receive a submission confirmation e-mail.

TRAVEL GRANTS
A limited number of travel grants will be available to full-timestudent presenters attending from outside Japan. Check thetravel grant application box in step 1 of the online submission
mentioned above.

(1) Paper title(2) Names of all authors with their affiliations: The name of thepresenting author should be underlined.
(3) Abstract: 50 words or less, highlighting the focus of your paper.
(4) Presentation style: Indicate if you wish to have your paper
considered for oral or poster presentation.
(5) Workshop: Indicate the closest matching workshop.

MAILING
IDW ’08 Secretariat
c/o Bilingual Group Ltd.
3-3-6 Kudan Minami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0074, Japan
Phone: +81-3-3263-1345 Fax: +81-3-3263-1264
E-mail: idw@bilingualgroup.co.jp(6) Body of the Technical Summary contains:(a) Background and Objectives: Introduce the state of the art ofthe subject and describe the goal of your work.
(b) Results: Describe specific results. Illustrations to highlightyour work are encouraged.
(c) Originality: Clearly describe what are new and/or emphasized
points.
(d) Impact: Discuss the significance of your work and compare
your findings with previously published works.
(e) References: List references covering projects in related areas.
(f) Prior Publications: The paper must be an original contribution.
If you have published or presented material on similar work,
explain how the present material differs.

Follow guidelines on writing:(1) Use standard English font sets such as Times New Roman,
Times, Arial, and Helvetica for your entire Technical Summary.
In addition to these font sets, Symbol, Wingdings, and
ZapfDingbats are strongly recommended for typing any mathfunctions and Greek characters.
(2) Place figures/tables/photographs after the text to prevent layout
disorder when reviewing.
(3) A less than 1 MB file size is recommended. Your network
gateway may have a limitation on uploading file size.

ACCEPTANCE
You will be notified of the results of your Technical Summary
review via e-mail by July 24, 2008. Upon acceptance of theTechnical Summary, authors must prepare a camera-readymanuscript to be published in the conference proceedings. The
template of the manuscript will soon be available on theconference website. It will be four pages in length and in a twocolumn format. Acceptance is subject to three conditions: (1)the paper shall comply with IDW copyright rules; (2) the paper
shall not have been presented prior to publication; (3) and themanuscript and application forms must be submitted by
September 10, 2008.

LATE-NEWS PAPERS
A limited number of late-news papers reflecting important new
findings or developments may be accepted. Authors arerequested to submit a 2-page camera-ready manuscript on A4sized pages accompanied by an abstract no later thanSeptember 26, 2008. Access to the conference website: http://
idw.ee.uec.ac.jp/authinfo.html(4) Include the presenting author’s name and title of the paper in theheader line in each subsequent page.
(5) Put the page number on the right side in the header line.

II. Online Submission
Access http://idw.ee.uec.ac.jp/authinfo.html
The submission procedure consists of three steps:

If you have any difficulties with the online submission, pleasecontact the IDW ’08 Secretariat.

IDW ’08
The 15th International Display Workshops
December 3-5, 2008
Toki Messe Niigata Convention Center, Niigata, Japan
Secretariat: c/o Bilingual Group Ltd.
3-3-6 Kudan Minami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0074, Japan
Phone: +81-3-3263-1345 Fax: +81-3-3263-1264 E-mail: idw@bilingualgroup.co.jp