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MEETING NOTICE
Pacific Northwest Chapter · Society for Information Display

WEDNESDAY October 17, 2007 - 6:00 PM
PLANAR Systems (headquarters)
1195 NW Compton Dr.
Beaverton, OR 97006
Tel: (503) 748-1100

Display Measurements of Flat Panel Displays

Adi Abileah
PLANAR Systems

Abstract: The techniques and instruments used to measure flat panel display properties will be detailed. Properties like uniformity, colors, viewing angles behavior, gray levels separation, temporal measurements and motion artifacts will be included. High ambient behavior and reflectivity of both transmissive and reflective displays will be part of the discussion.

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Biography: Adi Abileah is chief scientist, Technology Group, Planar Systems, Beaverton, Oregon.

His main activity is related to development of active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCD), physics and optics of the displays of several technologies, backlights and enhancement techniques.

Adi has B.Sc. in physics from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and M.Sc. in Plasma physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. And a two years research work at the university on high power CO2 lasers.
He developed soil mechanics density sensors at the Negev Institute. His first industry job was in medical imaging (Nuclear Medicine) at Elscint, Israel. He was the head of the electro-optics group at Elbit for several years, and then the manager of EL-OP north brunch R&D center in Haifa, Israel.
On 1987 he joined OIS - Optical Imaging Systems in Michigan where he became the manager of the optics group and responsible for all related topics in the development of AMLCDs. During this period he became expert in the optics of AMLCDs, testing techniques and liquid crystals physics. He served at OIS until the company closed at 1998. Since 1998 he joined Planar.

Adi has 31 US patents, mostly related to displays and backlights, and presented many technical papers at SID, SPIE, and OSA conferences. In 2005 he received the Fellow Award of SID.

The Seminar is free. Please join the speaker for a no-host dinner after the seminar. Directions to the restaurant will be provided at the seminar. Non-Members are welcome. RSVP to Gary Johnson at Gary.Johnson@Tek.com or (503) 627-1985. Please indicate if you plan to participate in the dinner.

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