Taiwan Products Launch & International Press Conference in Las Vegas showcased new EverFocus products, affirming EverFocus' position as a leading worldwide supplier of security and surveillance solutions from Taiwan.The 2013 International Security Conference & Exposition - West (ISC West) was held in Las Vegas, April 10-12, drawing security professionals and suppliers from all over the world. A major highlight of this exhibition was the Taiwan Products Launch & International Press Conference, held by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), aimed to introduce the innovative information technology products and support that the Taiwan government provides for their leading companies in Taiwan. At this event, EverFocus was invited to address on the topic of "Your Safety, Our Focus" to and showcase the latest additions to EverFocus' comprehensive security solutions.During his presentation EverFocus Chief Marketing Strategy Executive Officer James Weng discussed the latest trends in surveillance systems, and adeptly showcased how the new PARAGON960x4 DVR allows users to take full advantage of the latest analog camera technologies, as well as re-emphasized the important goal of worldwide security at EverFocus. In addition to the innovative PARAGON960X4 DVR, EverFocus also highlighted its EPHD04+ compact format HDcctv DVR, as well as its wide range of IP surveillance products, including its complete IP camera lineup and exciting new compact-dome products.The press conference and exhibit were well received by members of the media and attendees at ISC West 2013. With the success of this press conference and its ISC West exhibit, EverFocus continues to impress the world with their new technologies, and looks to continue this trend in future shows.For more information, please visit http://www.everfocus.com/Executives from the world's leading suppliers of security equipment showcased new products at ISC West 2013.

Gigabyte Technology has introduced its latest Radeon HD 7990-based graphics card, GV-R799D5-6GD-B, featuring the Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture for gaming performance and power efficiency. The graphics card is also equipped with the latest technologies including PCI Express 3.0 and AMD ZeroCore Power.With AMD's Eyefinity technology, users are able to separate their image or video content onto five different displays and are also able to enhance their multi-display experience further with AMD HD3D technology and universal bezel compensation, the company said.The graphics card also features 6GB GDDR5 memory and 768-bits memory bus bandwidth, helping to accelerate communication between graphics card and the hardware platform.Gigabyte GV-R799D5-6GD-B graphics cardPhoto: Company

The professional AMD FirePro workstation series has more and more cooperation with the leading ISVs. Designers can clearly feel the performance boost through the optimized programs. In exhibits, including Siggraph held in the U.S. and IBC held in Amsterdam in 2012, up to the NAB exhibit which just ended in April 2013, the close work and excellent performances between AMD and professional software designers were demonstrated. Recently, the business director of the AMD FirePro department, Mr. Caracappa, lead his team to demonstrate actual tests in various countries in the Asia-Pacific region to allow users to see the outstanding performance with their own eyes and feel the all new usage experiences that these new designs can bring for them.AMD FirePro has many leading and innovative cooperation exchanges with companies in various industries, such as the Reality Deck displayed in the CEWIT exhibit at the end of 2012: 416 high resoultion monitors were used to surround 4 walls to form a 3D virtual reality environment with 70 FirePro V9800 graphics cards. Every graphics card was able to output to 6 monitors and 4 graphics cards were able to operate simultaneously in one computer host. A total of 18 computer hosts were synchronized and connected using AMD FirePro S400, and further formed this interactvice virtual environment using 416 monitors which had a total of 1.5 billion pixels. Another example was the world's first 8K LCD display, the hardware support was also driven by the AMD FirePro product. Also, the simulation environment of the Ferrrari races, etc.In the Workstation graphics world, focusing on the ISV solutions means everything - providing a stable, certified, and unparalelled performance in key applications is paramount.The following are sharings of actual test results with CAD/CAM/DCC:- AMD FirePro provided an exclusive advantage for PTC Creo 2, called "Order Independent Transparency (OIT)". This is not provided by any other current competitor. AMD showed us in a live demonstration how this works. While the AMD solution was completely smooth when moving the model, the NVIDIA was very choppy and stuttering.Only the FirePro W5000 allows you to turn on the OIT option.- Actual test with Solidworks 2013: some basic tests were done using a SolidWork model, such as: Render mode shaded, Shaded with Edge or Realview, etc. The models were opened simultaneously, and the computing status could be seen.Actual on-site testing of the transparency of a motorcycle model.- In the DCC space, Adobe revealed their next generation of Premiere video editing software, which uses the well known proprietary Mercury engine - they will be adding OpenCL acceleration, a move that more and more software developers are making. OpenCL is an open standard technology, that can use the GPU to accelerate pretty much anything. It doesn't lock you to a certain vendor, like CUDA, and it can take advantage of the CPU and GPU. It's important to note, that in the mobile space, NVIDIA powered laptops can't take advantage of any acceleration, as CUDA is not available on mobile parts. While AMD enables OpenCL on all their graphics products. AMD showed us a live demonstration of this new Mercury engine, and it showed that the rendering time for a 1080p clip went a lot faster, than on the CPU alone.The program automatically loaded the OpenCL option; the competitor has the CUDA option.PCIe gen3 is also something that AMD is touting to be a very important feature, that current competitor lacks. Applications, like Assimilate's Scratch needs massive bandwidth between the components, like GPU, CPU and memory when manipulating 4k images - only PCIe gen 3, available with AMD's FirePro W series can deliver that.SAPPHIRE PGS will continue to provide AMD FirePro all series products, more special advantages from cooperating with ISV, better cost/performance value and more diverse solutions, such as: digial signages, medical applications, servers and cloud concept products and the new Radeon Sky, etc.Virtual environment formed with 416 monitors, the world's first 8K monitor display and the simulation exhibit of a Ferrari F1 race.

Fortrend Taiwan Scientific Corp. has obtained Windows 8 qualifications successfully with the cooperation of ST and ITE. The Chairman of Fortrend Taiwan Scientific Corp., Mr. John Wu, indicated that after the collocation of the touch IC of ST and ITE with Fortrend's OGS touch panel, the touch panel has been qualified by Windows 8 in succession.There are some advantages of their IC collocate with Fortrend's OGS touch panel: the speed of reporting rate is speedy and accurate. The slide and zoom in and out is smooth. The function of touch has exceeded the qualifications of Windows 8 and entered the supply chain of international manufacturers successfully.Mr. Wu explained further that due to the exceptional process and material, the quality of Fortrend's OGS is highly stable. All the surfaces of their products have been processed with AR, Anti Smudge and Anti Scratch. Take laptops, AOI and Monitor for examples, there are always ten fingers controlling the touch screen at the same time when playing games and the screen is flat. Thus, AR is absolutely necessary lest the eyes should get hurt.Moreover, it is extremely easy for people to scratch touch screen by metal, such as rings and watches, while working on it. If adding protective film on the touch panel, it will not only be costly but lower its touch performance. Thus, the function of Anti Scratch has become another key issue which affects touch panel's functions. Beside, the grease on the fingers can have the touch panel stained easily and hardly be cleaned. Therefore, the process of Anti Smudge is also a must.Fortrend has solved the problems by making these processes into its standard procedure of surface. The quality of touch panel is excellent and no extra charges for these additional processes, which has impressed its clients. Fortrend's high quality OGS touch panel reveals extraordinary performance with the collocation of ST and ITE's superior IC. Mr. Wu indicated optimistically that the shipping quantity of Fortrend's touch panel would definitely exceed the expectation and maintain the continuous growth.The excellent performance of Fortrend OGS with ST and ITE IC, Win8 qualified

EverFocus is pleased to announce its MobileFocusHD remote video Surveillance application for iPad users. MobileFocusHD is now available for download from the Apple app store, and allows users to access all current EverFocus DVRs and IP Cameras on their iPad. The powerful and intuitive MobileFocusHD application offers multiple functions for you to remotely monitor multiple video streams and control PTZ cameras, providing you control over your surveillance system whenever and wherever.Another application, MobileFocusHD Plus, is also available for iPad users. The MobileFocusHD Plus not only offers users to experience the features of MobileFocusHD, but also allows users to search video by time or event to play back recordings stored on DVRs. Currently, MobileFocusHD and MobileFocusHD Plus are designed for iPad and can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store.About EverFocus Electronics CorporationEverFocus Electronics Corp. is a leading integrated security solution manufacturer. Our lineup includes of CCTV cameras, DVRs, HDcctv, IP surveillance solutions, access control systems, as well as surveillance and access control peripherals. EverFocus has offices globally, including the U.S.A (California & New York), Germany (Emmerich am Rhein), China (Beijing), Japan (Tokyo), India (Mumbai), Taiwan (Taipei) and the latest subsidiary EverFocus UK, located in London. For more information please visit http://www.everfocus.com/MobileFocus HD is designed for iPad and can be downloaded from the iTinus App Store

Germany has recently initiated the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, to advocate Internet of Things and Services (IoTS). This new revolution will streamline production and sales processes in machine to machine (M2M) infrastructures, transforming production mode from build to stock (BTS) into build to order (BTO) that can begin instantly once an order is received. Industry 4.0 helps businesses achieve the goal of Smart Production, Green Production and Urban Production.Due to labor shortage in China, global warming and energy crisis, manufacturing industries are urged to increase their production efficiencies and maintain competitiveness in a smarter and greener way. With the rise of Industry 4.0, a smart factory is intelligently connected and automated; intelligence is valued by from motion centric machine automation to the factory as a whole. Joe Lin, NEXCOM's General Manager of the Industrial Computing Solutions Business Unit, points out that industrial controllers are the heart of smart factories, and to prepare for this upcoming wave of Industry 4.0, the design of industrial controllers must evolve towards the directions of high performance, diversity and miniaturization.The rise of smart motion control and smart factoryHigh performance refers to the computing power of industrial controllers. In the past, the machine automation was designed to replace human labor at individual workstations. Automated machines used to center on motion control and were centralized controlled by a master machine. Nowadays automated machineries are burdened with more complex motion controls. The complexity is further increased when they are integrated with different control stations. Apart from motion control, automated machineries may also process high-precision images, network communications and other application requests. Automated machineries are decentralized control systems, which offload workload from master machines and therefore require high computing performance.With regard to diversity, industrial controllers need to support a diverse range of industrial Fieldbus protocols, to integrate with the servo motors and programmable logic controllers (PLC) provided by European and American automation vendors. To meet the mainstream needs of motion control, industrial controllers need to process protocols such as PROFIBUS, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP and DeviceNet. This diversity enables industrial controllers to clear communication barriers between different controllers, and establish a strong foundation for monitoring and controlling of smart factories.In addition, industrial controllers need to support Ethernet in order to connect with enterprise IT systems such as manufacturing execution system (MES), enterprise resource planning (ERP), product lifecycle management (PLM) and customer relationship management (CRM). By tying these together, production lines can manage resources more efficiently and start production immediately and automatically when a sales order is received, saving manual labor.Automation technology matures, machinery industry transforms into a trillion dollar industryIn smart factories, industrial controllers are gradually moving away from large plug-in machinery designs toward miniaturization. "This trend in miniaturization decreases factory space usage, and help companies to locate factory in a city, minimizing the impact that labor shortages bring for manufactures," Lin explains. "By starting production immediately and locally once an order arrives, businesses have more control over their inventory, economize logistics and reduce carbon footprint. Better yet, as miniaturized platform consumes less energy, carbon footprint is further reduced, contributing to a green environment."Traces of automation can be seen almost everywhere, for example, smartphone manufacturing are using high-precision motion controllers and automated optical inspection (AOI) to improve productivity. In addition, some naphtha cracker plant in Taiwan is using first-class PC-based distributed control systems (DCS) to control dozens of different sized factories from a central control room. Using DCS, the revenue per employee reached tens of millions annually, demonstrating the efficiency and value of factory automation. The examples mentioned above all used NEXCOM's NISE series of miniaturized industrial fanless computers as industrial controllers.Throughout the decades, Taiwanese vendors have developed automation technologies to compete with European and Japanese competitors. Taiwan's machinery industry is forecast to reach one trillion in 2013. Now, various businesses in Asia-Pacific regions are transforming labor-intensive production to automated production. Lin points out that China's automation industry also shows plenty of opportunities, and because of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), Taiwan has the benefit of zero-tariff access to Chinese market.The quality of NEXCOM's NISE series of industrial fanless computers are already tested and proven as a reliable solution in the embedded market, meeting the needs of high performance, protocol diversity and miniaturization. They provide the key and stepping stone to open opportunities in the machinery and factory automation markets.NEXCOM NISE series of industrial fanless computers meet the needs of high performance, protocol diversity and miniaturization.

Can photoimageable coverlay (PIC) be adopted for chip scale package (CSP) process, replacing the commonly used dry film to solve the problem of a multilayer chip's insulation layer becoming brittle and fractured because of temperature-induced stress changes? PIC is a soft photoimageable solder resin that can replace the conventional coverlays currently used on flexible printed circuit boards (FPCBs). PIC's chemical structure is mainly composed of soft epoxy acrylic resin, a type of material that has long been used in FPCBs; its heat- and chemical-resistance and flexural strength have also been generally recognized. Due to its characteristic softness, when being mounted, it hardly creates bubbles and does not crack even when the substrate and the chip have different stress levels. PIC will change its flexure along with the stress difference. Compared to the conventional coverlay or photoimageable dry film, PIC has the following advantages: 1. Creates holes by photoimaging, which does not need die-cut and is highly precise, low cost and time efficient.2. Simple, quick, eco-friendly; saves power and human resources.3. Not as rigid as conventional polyimide (PI) films, giving it better flexibility to prevent rebound during static bending. Because most FPCB applications involve static bending of connections between electronic components, the rigidness of the PI film in conventional coverlays will increase the substrate's rebound strength. During the lamination process using the anisotropic conductive film (ACF) for such products as LCD modules (LCMs) or touch panels (laminating the FPCB to the glass), the rigidness of the PI film will make it difficult to solve the problem arising from the remnant stress after assembly. This will reduce the reliability of the products after assembly. PIC does not have such an issue. Therefore, the lamination process for electronic products using ACF should avoid using PI films and instead PIC should be used. Compared to FPCB-use solder mask ink, PIC has following advantages: 1. No need for screen printing; clean and odorless; consistent film thickness.2. Resolves the difficulties of hole-plugging when applying liquid ink onto double-sided or multilayer FPCBs.3. Its flexural strength is similar to that of FPCB photoimageable ink, but it features better photoimaging ability and chemical resistance.4. Quick developing, and short cure time during post-bake.5. Does not include silicon oil-based defoamer, so there will be no pollution problem at the edge of the PCB pad; neither will it pollute the immersion gold and gold plating baths. FPCB makers' actual manufacturing results show: 1. PIC eliminates the processes of cutting, drilling and punching for PI films; increases efficiency and reduces costs.2. Enhances the alignment accuracy for the coverlay's fast-press process. The accuracy is improved from 0.1mm to 0.075mm.3. Capable of resolving the excessive glue issue as it adopts the photoimaging method for opening and therefore the glue will not overflow, reducing the excessive glue issue from 0.1mm to zero.4. PIC directly replaces fast-press and WF, reducing process steps and increasing profits.5. Capable of resolving the problem of poor sealing during the WF process. Lamination is the most important step deciding the success of PIC process; preventing bubbles from emerging is the most crucial issue. Once the lamination is finished without creating bubbles, the whole PIC process is already half-completed. As for how to prevent bubbles from forming, the hot-press temperature has to be low. TeamChem Material Chairman Dr. Todd Yeh suggests that 70-80 degrees Celsius be the basis. When a circuit layout is more symmetrical, the standard dry film laminator can be used. But if the layout is not symmetrical or the circuits are too dense, vacuum fast-press equipment may better serve the purpose. Dr. Yeh also calls attention to certain precautions that should be taken during the exposure and developing steps. When under-exposed, large areas of peeling off may easily occur to the coating after the immersion gold process; and too much exposure will make the coating brittle. The exposure should be set at levels 9-13 of the Stouffer 21-step photo-guide. Developing conditions are decisive for coating adhesion. The duration of developing should be set at 40 seconds to avoid over-developing, which will hollow out the resin at the bottom of the coating and weaken the adhesion, causing diffusion coating during the immersion gold and gold plating processes. The spray pressure during developing is suggested at 1.2 kg/cm². As for post-bake, it can be set at 150 degrees C x 20 minutes to complete the cure. Over-bake must be avoided, because after a prolonged stay in a high-temperature environment during post-bake, the resin-covered copper surface will be severely oxidized and result in diffusion coating during the immersion gold and gold plating processes. The PIC processes:Removal of coverlay release film --> hot press lamination --> removal of underlay release film --> exposure --> developing --> post bake TeamChem Material Chairman Dr. Todd Yeh points out that the company's PIC is made under a low-temperature environment, ready for production at FPCB makers' existing facilities, and priced below NT$400 per square meter. The company already completed pilot production in early 2013 and is preparing for volume production and shipments. Currently, R&D engineers from FPCB makers have been testing TeamChem's PIC products for adoption by tablets, communication antenna FPCBs for smartphones, and FPCBs for light bars. Commenting on the development of PIC applications, FPCB engineers have pointed out that the conventional method has at least 11 steps - microetching of circuits, layup, lamination, baking, punching, abrasive blasting, photoimageable solder mask applying, pre-bake, exposure, developing and post-bake. But after adopting the new PIC, there are only five steps – microetching of circuits, lamination, exposure, developing and post-bake - saving work, time and manpower. The PIC is a great help for FPCB makers who need to compete for orders through cost-down efforts. Photoimageable coverlay (PIC) replacing PI-film coverlay

Advantech (2395.TW), a global leader in the industrial platform computing and automation device market, held its investor conference today and announced its 2012 consolidated financial report. Consolidated revenue was reported at approximately NT$27.55 billion, an increase of 4.2% compared with 2011; operating margin was NT$10.93 billion (39.7% gross margin); and net profit after tax was NT$3.49 billion, which represents about NT$6.22 per share after-tax earnings for the year.Advantech President Chaney Ho said that after two years of transition, the world is now firmly entering an intelligent era in technology. This year, keeping this theme in mind, Advantech will provide services to meet the needs of various industries including providing cloud infrastructure, cloud intelligence services as well as services related to smart cities and the internet of things. Advantech will also develop strategies to augment global distribution and to assist business organizations in taking advantage of the new services.Chaney also announced a change to the organization. In the past, the organization was structured along geographic or product boundaries. Today, the new organization will be based on vertical sectors and applications. As a result, it has been realigned into three Master Business Groups (MBG): AASECO (Advantech Automation Sales Eco-Partners, AASECO) which serves automation system integrators; the Embedded Design-in Group to service equipment manufacturers; and the iServices Group to serve solutions providers in the creation of intelligent services. The organizational changes, chosen to drive business forward, are based on two major criteria: vertical sectors and applications. In the area of global deployment, in addition to continued steady expansion of high-end markets in Europe and North America, research coming from the newly developed collaboration think-tank, the Advantech + Technology Campus (A + TC), has identified more business opportunities in the emerging markets of Russia, India, Israel, the Arab states that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and the Latin American market.Advantech Intelligent Services (AiS) will also provide a new Solution Ready Package (SRP) business model to the market. Advantech Intelligent Services Vice President Ken Yu said that as the paradigm in technology continues to shift over the next decade to create the intelligent era, "services" will replace "products" in mainstream market demand. Additionally, following global trends in urbanization, intelligent cities will flourish, with innovative services, interconnected and integrated devices marking a significant change in the mode of operation in the industry.Ken went on to explain that the new SRP business model dividing the AiS organization into five business units was developed to fulfill requirements of the Greater China market. The new organization will divide AiS into five business units offering solutions in the following sectors: medical (iHospital), retail (uRetail), smart-city (uCity), intelligent-factory (iFactory), and intelligent-building (iBuilding). The five business units will provide a set of value-added application services, each with a different industry focus. With an in-depth industry application operating just like a normal system integrator, the SRP business model will include a professional marketing and IT team, while strengthening the sales and service teams. Advantech will also strengthen its own capabilities in various fields through its "Partnering for Smarter City Solutions" platform, which includes mergers and acquisitions, alliances with industry partners and industry/academic cooperation such as the TiC100 business model competition.Chaney Ho stressed that the Advantech SRP business model is the best model that has been developed to date, combining intelligent technology with Advantech's past three decades of experience, and boosted by the merger with BICOM Information Technology and alliances with academic and government organizations. Advantech continually enables technology for an intelligent planet with strategic initiatives that further the development of the organization and its business models. The SRP business model will serve to help Advantech become a leading innovation enterprise provider in Greater China, as well as assist different industries in accelerating their own growth in intelligent operations.

In order to reduce the amount of integration effort between devices, the industrial automation group of Advantech has launched the APAX-6572 with a combined APAX Data Acquisition and Control (DA&C) technology and Embedded Automation Controller. This device is best suited for factory-wide DA&C applications and as an auxiliary control for unit operations.The automation controller contains an Intel Atom D510 1.66GHz, 2GB RAM controller with three GbE LAN, two COM ports, one VGA and four USB 2.0 ports. The APAX controller comes with fours slots for expansion. Using this method, customers can install four APAX-5090P modules to provide a maximum of 18 COM ports; four APAX-5095P CAN port cards for a maximum of eight CAN ports, or a combination of the two. A maximum of 32 APAX DA&C I/O modules can also be applied to the this system providing a maximum of 768 Digital I/O and 192 Analogue I/O points.The APAX-6572 integrates the three main elements of automation, Computing, Control and Communication, into an open system architecture with a small footprint, thereby providing users with an easier and friendlier environment to deploy the control logics. The APAX-6572 supports the IEC-61161-3 standard for LD, FBD, IL, SFC, C, C++ and C# as well as .NET class libraries, thereby providing an open and flexible programming environment so programmers can concentrate on one controller and don't need to switch languages between controllers.To help engineers handle faults and increase system availability, the APAX-6572 includes many innovative technologies including an Advanced Watch Dog Timer to provide alarms and self healing before the system is reset; also included is an Active Health Check which monitors the hardware and triggers alarms if a fault is found. Finally, to ensure that the system is always available a backup system is provided to take over when the master is out of action.To find out more about how the small hybrid APAX-6572 can help your business, contact your local sales representative or go to http://www.advantech.com/.

Merck announced that its New Business R&D and Application Lab is set to begin operations in Taiwan. The first in Asia to employ such wide-ranging and diversified technology, the Lab will provide key materials and first-rate technical services for the development of OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) panels, LED (Light-Emitting Diode) lighting, 3D technology and flexible displays. The Lab will help customers accelerate product development for these new technologies, shortening the time to market.Taiwan enjoys a leading position in the production of notebook computers, smartphones, LCD televisions, semiconductors, and touch-control panels, Merck Executive Board member Bernd Reckmann said during the Lab's inaugural event. Taiwan also boasts a sound investment climate, outstanding human talent, and comprehensive industrial supply chains, he added."This island is the breeding ground for technological development and this is proven by such outstanding products as high contrast and high transmission panels (PS-VA), ultra-high-definition TV (4K2K), and the huge sizes of displays," Reckmann said. "We are confident that Taiwan will have a dominant position in the display and lighting industries of the future."With the New Business R&D and Application Lab, Merck will make use of the cooperation and strong bonds it has always enjoyed with its customers and will seek to eliminate bottlenecks that prevent broad access to new technology.The New Business R&D and Application Lab will enable Merck Display Technologies Ltd. to offer timely, more professional and innovative technology services to customers, said Merck's Taiwan Managing Director Dick Hsieh."Our development staff will provide immediate interaction with clients to understand their needs, solve their problems, and directly engage in supplying needs for materials," Hsieh said. "They will do tests in the shortest time possible, expedite communication and help reduce the time for developing new products. We will address urgent and complex issues even at midnight; Merck's team of experts in Europe also will spare no effort to promptly solve problems our clients may face. We look forward to supporting our customers by shortening their product development lead time by as much as one to one and a half years."Realizing the concept of "Displaying Futures" programThe New Business R&D and Application Lab currently provides services for OLED panels, 3D technology, flexible displays, and LED lighting. The wide range of applications in which these products can be used in the future includes architecture, medicine, transportation, communications, and many more. OLEDs can be used for display panels and for lighting, setting new accents in interior decoration. In the future, smart phones will have flexible displays. In the field of medicine, flexible displays could store and display patients' medical histories, a more useful and environmentally friendly choice.Together with its customers, Merck is fulfilling its vision of "Displaying the Future" in Taiwan.About display materials from MerckHigh-performance displays are fast, they save energy and produce razor-sharp images. Premium materials from Merck help LCDs to meet these complex requirements. Active for more than 40 years in display research and development, Merck is the innovation and market leader in this field, holding more than 2,500 patents. Apart from special liquid crystal mixtures, which are used in a wide range of display technologies, Merck also develops materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In the field of organic electronics, Merck offers complete material solutions for organic thin film transistors in display applications. The portfolio also includes formulations with reactive mesogens, which are a key component of 3D displays. In addition, Merck's product range includes printable etching pastes for structuring touch panels in an efficient and environmentally friendly way. To make display surfaces less sensitive to scratches and more convenient to use, premium surface functions with anti-fingerprint and easy-to-clean properties are also possible with Merck materials. High quality phosphor materials for LED backlights make ultra-thin and energy-saving LCDs possible. Indeed, the majority of innovative displays contain products from Merck - from LCD televisions and notebooks to mobile telephones and tablet computers. For more information please see http://www.merck4displays.com/About "Displaying Futures"Merck successfully launched a series of Displaying Futures symposia that has been exploring patterns and creating a vital platform with events, publications and workshops to develop future scenarios from the perspective of architects, designers, artists and scientists. The Displaying Futures initiative reflects Merck's ambition to actively shape developments in this sector. For more information please see http://www.displayingfutures.com/