September 21, 2006
Samsung and LCI hold 4th Future Display Workshop at Kent State University LCI

On September 19, the 4th Future Display Workshop for Samsung Electronics and Kent State University Liquid Crystal Institute was held at Kent State University. Three previous workshops were held at Samsung in Korea. Future meetings will be held annually.

"It's a huge honor to have Executive Vice President Jun Souk and Executive Vice President S.S. Kim visit the LCI," LCI Associate Director Dr. Philip Bos said. "They have taken Samsung from ground-level to the leading LCD manufacturer. Also visiting was Vice President K.H. Kim, who is the inventor of the Patterned Vertical Alignment technology that is used on a large percentage of the world's high-quality flat-panel displays."

The workshops are a part of the ongoing interaction that LCI has had with key technology personnel at Samsung.The workshop opened with a review of the collaboration history by LCI Director Oleg Lavrentovich, followed by KSU research presentations, a discussion of future collaboration and a tour of the LCI.

As a token of their appreciation of fruitful collaboration with the LCI, Samsung donated two 46” LCD HD televisions and pledged their continuing support of LCI-Samsung collaboration in display research.

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