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Profile:Luxell Technologies Inc. is a leading Canadian technology located in Mississauga, Ontario. We are the developer and provider of patented Black Layer optical interference for reflection control and contrast management of flat panel displays.

Black Layer technology is unique to Luxell, and is today`s most effective way to combat reflection from the counterelectrode of most flat panel displays. (See "how it works.")


The company licenses its Black Layer technology to high-volume manufacturers of TFEL, OEL, OLED and PLED flat panel displays, and is actively engaged in technology transfers to mass produce Black Layer equipped displays.

Important for the recognition of Black Layer benefits are the company`s high-performance TFEL displays, which we manufacture at our Mississauga facility. These unique, sunshine-legible displays are typically used in avionics, military, emergency vehicle, and similar critical "must read" applications.

The first-ever sunshine-legible TFEL display.

Announcing a sunshine-legible TFEL in 1997 was a major milestone for Luxell and for the display industry overall. No company had ever made such a display. The achievement was proof, now brought to market, of the superior capabilities of the Luxell Black Layer to minimize reflection through optical interference rather than conventional filtering.

Today, several Black Layer equipped, high-performance BlackLITE TFEL display models are available, including 3ATI, 1/4 VGA and custom sizes. They are globally recognized as the most crisp and legible TFEL displays available.

Licensing for TFELS, OELs, OLEDs, and PLEDs.

Luxell`s breakthrough technology for TFELs has proven highly valuable for OELs, OLEDs, PLEDs and other types of new organic pixel displays. These displays have layered structures similar to that of TFELs. In addition to improving performance, Black Layer technology helps to minimize heat and decrease current requirements for organic pixel displays -- by doing so it helps to increase pixel life. Also, cost savings over design alternatives such as circular polarizers make Black Layer technology especially attractive to high-volume manufacturers.

As a result, Luxell has developed relationships with several organic-pixel display developers.

Growing intellectual property.

The broad exposure to organic-pixel display development involving several manufacturers enables Luxel to continually add to its understanding of optical interference technology and its incorporation into the manufacturing processes of several types of flat panel displays. Luxell is acknowledged worldwide as the leader in optical interference design and manufacturing — hence our name — "The Black Layer Company."

http://luxell.com/

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Luxell Appoints Vipon Ghai, Manulife Capital to Board of Directors
TORONTO, May 7 /CNW/ - Luxell Technologies Inc. (TSX:LUX) today announced the appointment of Vipon Ghai, Assistant Vice-President, Manulife Capital to its Board of Directors effective April 25, 2002. Mr. Ghai replaces Joanna L. Robertson, who resigned from Luxell`s Board as a result of her recent departure from Manulife Financial.
Mr. Ghai joined Manulife Financial in April 2002 as Assistant Vice- President, Manulife Capital. Prior, Mr. Ghai was Director, Bank of Montreal Capital Corporation where he had responsibility for sourcing and assessing investment opportunities in technology companies. Prior to this, Mr. Ghai held several positions in the Corporate and Investment Banking Division of the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Residential Division of AT&T Canada.

Mr. Ghai is a CMA and CFA. and holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University. Mr. Ghai has sat on the Board of Directors of several technology-based companies.

About Luxell

Luxell Technologies Inc. is Canada`s leading designer, manufacturer and licensor of flat panel display technologies and solutions for consumer electronics, defense and aerospace industries. The Company`s growth strategy is focused on licensing its technology, strategic partnering with original equipment manufacturers that supply flat panel displays to mass consumer markets and direct sales of its high performance display solutions. Luxell`s partners include some of the most respected names in the display industry, including Cambridge Display Technology, Pioneer Tohoku and Hitachi High- Technologies.

The Company employs 58 people at its 49,000 square-foot "state-of-the- art" R&D and manufacturing centre in Mississauga, Ontario.




(C) Luxell Technologies Inc., 2002. Luxell and Black Layer are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Luxell Technologies Inc. All other company and/or
product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective
manufacturers.

For further information

Roman Kocur, Chief Financial Officer, [e-mail], [phone] ext. 222
Shantha Fernando, Director, Finance & Investor Relations, [e-mail], [phone] ext. 233

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Luxell Appoints Dr. Woo Young Kim as Chief Technology Officer
TORONTO, May 7 /CNW/ - Luxell Technologies Inc. (TSX:LUX - news) announced today that Dr. Woo Young Kim has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer. In this newly-created position, Dr. Kim will be responsible for leading the research, development and implementation of Luxell`s flat panel display technologies and related production processes. Dr. Kim will join the Luxell management team at its head office in Mississauga, Ontario.
Dr. Kim has fifteen years development, manufacturing and academic experience in the flat panel display industry. Most recently, Dr. Kim has spent the past four years involved in the development of organic light- emitting diode ("OLED") devices.

Prior to Luxell, Dr. Kim was the Director, OLED Group with Hyundai LCD Inc. in Ichon, South Korea where he was responsible for research, development and pilot-scale manufacturing of OLED devices, including full-colour displays. In addition, Dr. Kim has experience in thin-film transistor ("TFT") and liquid crystal display ("LCD") manufacturing and technology. Dr. Kim also has many years experience as a research associate in both Korea and the United States.

Dr. Kim received his doctorate of Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He also holds degrees from Murray State University in Kentucky and Pusan National University in Korea. Dr. Kim has published articles in many of the leading industry journals, is active in many display-related committees and has delivered presentations at international conferences. Dr. Kim has developed in excess of 20 OLED-related patents.

Brian Kennedy, Luxell`s President & CEO stated, "Dr. Kim`s extensive experience and track record in the research, development, fabrication and manufacturing of flat panel display technologies, particularly OLEDs, represents the addition of significant knowledge and leadership to our technology development and licensing initiatives."

Mr. Kennedy added, "As the company is now well-positioned to license its technology and further develop its technologies and processes, we felt it was important to create the position of Chief Technology Officer. The appointment of someone with Dr. Kim`s experience and credentials, particularly in the Pacific Rim, is critical to broadening the Company`s OLED and manufacturing knowledge base and ensuring we have continued success with our licensing program."

Dr. Kim stated, "Luxell is well-regarded in the Pacific Rim for its innovative flat panel display technologies, particularly its patented Black Layer(TM). I look forward to the opportunity to contribute to the development, production and licensing of the Company`s current and future next-generation flat panel display technologies."

About Luxell

Luxell is Canada`s leading designer, manufacturer and licensor of flat panel display technologies and solutions for consumer electronics, defense and aerospace industries. Luxell`s growth strategy is focused on licensing agreements and strategic partnering with original equipment manufacturers which supply flat panel displays to mass consumer markets and direct sales of its high performance display solutions. Luxell`s partners include some of the most respected names in the display industry, including Tohoku Pioneer Corporation, Cambridge Display Technology and Hitachi High-Technologies.

Luxell employs 58 staff at its 49,000 square-foot advanced R&D and manufacturing centre in Mississauga, Ontario.




(C) Luxell Technologies Inc., 2002. Luxell and Black Layer are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Luxell Technologies Inc. All other company and/or
product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective
manufacturers.

For further information

Roman Kocur, Chief Financial Officer, [e-mail], [phone] ext. 222

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The OLED Weather at SID

The Society for Information Display Show in Boston, MA week of May 19, 2002

by Vivien Marx
(with some additions of Clock staff)

Hype was present, though it appears that people have modestly adjusted their previous hyping of OLEDs.

Toshiba showed their 17inch AM OLED, the largest ever produced, with resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels.



“Holy Smoke!" one engineer said next to me. “Wow” and various equivalents of that. “Are these your family jewels?” one SID participant asked the Toshiba representative. Mounted behind glass, in cases, they sure seemed like jewels. Indeed Toshiba was quite tight-lipped, the ‘hows’ were all “proprietary”.
Some who looked more closely had critical remarks about the colors, which seemed a bit dark. “Green is too pale, red too strong,” said a visitor. Toshiba explained they were not happy yet with the 17 inch. They do not expect it to go into mass production.
But their 2.2 “OLED display (256K colors) for cell phones looked very crisp. Wide view possible from all angles: look at it from the side and you can still see the image.
This is a size and a technology Toshiba feels more confident about; so did others displaying small OLEDs, manufactured both with ink-jet printing (PLED) and with vacuum deposition with shadow mask (small molecule.)

Kodak got a lot of wows at their stand for their small prototype AM OLED, made by SK Display , the joint development of Sanyo and Kodak. A 2.16” diagonal /active matrix, with low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT substrate, the same used for small liquid crystal displays – and a very sleek screen, like Toshiba’s.Very bright and very thin (no backlight required leading to low power consumption.)



“Issues that are Manageable”
Leslie Polgar, president of Display Products for Eastman Kodak, said we could expect products with OLEDs in the first quarter 2003.
He acknowledged that OLEDs still have “issues”, but said the issues are known: life expectancy is limited; that the weakest color is blue for which there are physical reasons. "We believe the problems with OLED are manageable..(yet) it is incorrect to say OLED is ready for all applications. We are not in the DVD, gameboy markets anyway..”

“Though, “ he added, “this technology satisfies the specs for displays in cameras. Right now the TFT LCD is the benchmark and some adaptations are necessary: what applies for LCD dynamics does not apply for OLEDs. So education and adaptation are necessary." (Kodak brochures proclaim the optimal apps are for video cameras as well as portable entertainment games, along with products in the consumer electronics, industrial medical markets.)

SK Display Phase 1 was the signing of the agreement; Phase 2 opens when the full plant is up and running; in early 2003 (the plant) will be producing Gen3 550x670 motherglass. By early 2003, SK plans this to be world’s first full-scale OLED manufacturing plant.”

Patents?

OLED technology was pioneered at Kodak labs by Chin Wan Tang and Steven Van Slyke in 1987.
”Some patents will expire shortly; is that a problem?” asked a listener. “No,” said Polgar. "Most of our more important patents are far more recent. Our current patent portfolio is over 100.“
Having heard that OLEDS do not perform well in sunlight, I asked about that. Polgar snapped, ” That problem is manageable. “ Is life expectancy a limitation for cameras? Polgar says no, those issues are manageable.
At this SID meeting, Chin Tang was nominated a Fellow of SID for his part in the OLED inventions.

At Universal Display engineer Yeh-Jiun Tung says Universal’s interest is in phosphorescent OLEDS, they call “PHOLEDs”, and at Samsung SDI, a prototype of the Universal/Samsung AM PHOLED was on display, made by Samsung with Universal`s technology, Samsung`s encapsulation know-how.

According to UDC their OLED displays have advantages of needing less power, have brighter colors, can be seen at wider viewing angles: some can be flexibly bent like foil.( (FOLEDs)
Universal has also developed an OLED manufacturing process called OVPD, Organic Vapor Phase Deposition that improves OLED manufacturing. Problems with the Sanyo/Kodak process, said Tung, include very low material utilization. (somewhere around 5%, UDC tells me,) while OVPD’s deposition process increases efficiency and throughput. UDC`s concept is put into practice by Aixtron, also at SID.

At Idemitsu Kosan, Takanori Kono, Manager of Electronic Materials Dept. .sees the major problem in OLED manufacturing with the shadow mask process, so his company avoids that entirely by using a color changing medium. They use only a blue emitter, which then passes through the color changing medium. The CCM draws on conventional technology, a color filter processing that is a mature technology, he said. The OLED produced this way has a longer life and more stable colors.
CCM is currently in development with partner DNP and should be available as a product OLED in 2003.
(An engineer at another company thought that while Idemitsu’s was a good set-up, there were problems with using the blue as a “base.” In his view, that does not lead to good colors.)

Dupont: seemed like OLED central with half the stand taken up by OLED displays. A full-color active matrix OLED DVD was playing “A Bug’s Life.” Very neat and crisp indeed. in 4” diagonal, showing its video capability along with the brightness that seems to characterize OLEDs.



Also on display were passive matrix color OLEDs on glass and plastic, for possible use in handsets.

What I thought was quite beautiful was a curved (concave) 1.5 inch. OLED display, not flexible - just curved and mounted into a cell phone. A Dupont engineer agreed, adding concave would be neat for a watch, too.Spoke to Dupont people about the use of plastic..after all if handsets and PDAs can be dropped without greater damage being done, that would be a big boost. Dupont sees lots of potential in this area.









( Not an OLED, but a possible long-term competitor, was Toshiba`s prototype flexible AMLCD on very thin glass, "flexible enough so that you could wrap it around a man`s leg." The (undefined) substrate was attached to a flexible sheet, making a display for foldable screens, for instance. Toshiba was listening for suggested products.)

Philips gets the coolness prize Very neat products.

“ PolyLED offers key advantages for future display applications that we believe will enable it to rapidly gain momentum.” “These shipments offer concrete proof that Philips is already taking a leading role in PolyLED technology, and with our proven leadership in displays for mobile consumer and telecommunication applications, we are well positioned to capture significant OLED market share.” Peter Hopper, CEO for Philips` Mobile Display Systems business group conducted their press conference.
They showed a 3.5 inch QVGA TFT-LCD which apparently is the thinnest display at that size, 3.5 mm thick.

What was most intriguing was their PolyLED module- the first polymer-based organic light emitting device in the industry to be shipped in volume quantities for release later this year. Their customer will use it in small electronics for the home. They are vague on who is this customer, and will say only that the OLED is for next-generation products. But CDT let the cat out of the bag.
-Says it is a PolyLED integrated into a shaver. Uh-huh. I also saw how it was integrated into the rear-view mirror in a car to show stats like tire pressure. Very interesting to see how this will find its way into various types of apps.
The PolyLED is very attractive: neat, .7mm glass with a coating; the whole thing less than one mm thick. It does have direct sunlight readability, all around viewing angle, and the fast response time of all OLEDs.
PolyLED is the technology licensed from Cambridge Display: what is proprietary and developed by Philips, is the encapsulation of the OLED.

LCD Lighting

Richard Webster tells me they are working on sub-zero lamps that will be bright at -40 degrees. Right now you would need to wrap a wire around bulb to obtain good light at low temps; they are working on that kind of concept of applying heat. For LCDs for avionics and military apps.


David Mentley of iSupply/Stanford Resources says displays are now (almost) a $50B industry. He sees CRTs reaching maturity, with production shifting to China and Eastern Europe. "One thing is clear," he said, "the (OLED) displays look great."
(VM note: I dunno about that, some displays look nice, others look ok in my view)


There was a buzz in the room about Sony’s OLED screen: 13 inches,800 x 600, low temperature poly Silicon TFT active matrix .
Sony’s booth was small- with the OLED mounted in a glass case on an elegant metal bookholder stand.
“Watch her face as she goes around it” said one guy at the stand, so I did. Thin, very thin, both the display and the back. The screen is practically see-through, green, translucent. I was surprised, and the Sony host nearly had a fit when he saw what I was doing...
Lots of people were crammed into the booth wearing HP, Intel, Motorola tags: everyone was hushed, seemed impressed. “Good brightness, good contrast” someone behind me said. Indeed I thought it was brighter than the Toshiba panel which I returned to, and then came back to the Sony. Sony’s image seemed crisper, but also flatter. Sony chose to show photos on their screen whereas Toshiba showed videos. Is that why it felt flatter?
Sony said that a low current density was realized through a big improvement of the aperture ratio
“Very impressive” the HP person said to the Sony person, who nodded and smiled. The crowds were larger, however, at Toshiba. Toshiba had placed their panel strategically in an aisle so people could wander by, congregate and gape.
Someone said Sony showed this kind of panel at SID last year. So now I do not know if it was such a a wow-issue after all.

Candescent missing this year; after years of showing exquisite small FEDs that ha to be carefully manipulated to keep running, Candescent is all but gone. Massive layoffs late last year.

A few people pointed out that OLEDs wash out in sunlight. Some mentioned an ameliorating technology called Black Layer so I went to producer Luxell, and spoke with president Brian Kennedy.
"Display practice says controlling reflection is usually accomplished by polarizers," but Kennedy is not impressed with that answer. This use of polarizers in his view adds manufacturing complexity and lowers the yields, raises the cost, while his black layer, behind the display pixels, interferes with the reflection to control it, producing a superior OLED. A display with Black Layer uses 33% less power than one with a circular polarizer, and has higher contrast.

The technology stems from a Canadian National Research Council grant, and the early EL work of Luxell’s .Robert Bajcar. Luxell started development with Black Layer in 1992 for inorganic EL for avionics, military applications. In the last 24 months they have begun applying this to OLEDs.
"Dolby is to sound, as Black Layer is going to be for OLEDs," says Kennedy..The technology is licensed now by Hitachi, Pioneer, Universal, Elam-T; and
applied to OLEDs, estimating 5,000 hour life-spans.
(TDK, first Kodak licensee, says OLED life span is now up to 7,000)

Optrex

At Optrex I admit I did not get what the OLED technology was about. Fortunately Ralph Polshak, an engineer, helped me to “see”.
Optrex displayed an auto dashboard, odometer and rpm dial. Integrated into the rpm dial is an OLED display: small molecule, red and green with 16 levels of gray.
The gauge swings in analog fashion, with the orange arrow, while underneath is the display which can be used for info or diagnostics.It is now in production for the BMW 7 series. BMW came to them and asked if the combination was possible, then Optrex figured out how to manufacture the gauge.
“I like my watch and like the dial” said one man at the stand, “ I have no use for digital read-outs” and Polshak agreed. The gauge seems to be the way people like to look at their dashboard.


The trick for incorporating the device was putting the hole in the middle of the display to anchor the neon arrow that swings around the dial. The hole in the middle is not trivial: the panel needs to be sealed twice, both around the edges and around the hole. The ITO needs to be routed around the hole. And cutting glass is also quite complex. It was developed at Optrex Japan and O. Europe.

Last year Optrex had a similar display they were told to turn off quite often because of the OLED`s limited life span. Neither did it have the gray scale of this year’s. Currently the OLED is undergoing environmental testing in the lab and is reaching several thousand hours of operation. .But no Blue - blue emitters are hard to find with acceptable life spans.
The target for this app is 25, 000- 50,000 hours , The company does not think this is technology ready for prime-time but there are lots of possibilities replacing all kinds of gauges in cars with this integrated OLED approach. Their first applications are for the automotive industry , and a marketable10,000 hour life span OLED for this app should be ready next year. Optrex says. #

This idea of cutting got me interested in another company that focuses on a niche market: the military. An LCD, not an OLED idea. Larry Tannas is the man behind the company.
Aerospace displays need to have unique dimensions, they need to be square, but custom making LCDs is expensive; Tannas` solution is to cut LCDs. Cutting them with his technology leads to 1/10th of the cost of custom made displays.
He cuts the glass, polarizers and circuit board without disturbing the resized portion of the LCD. I do not get all the tech details but I guess the jist is, you can cut the ends off because the software, electronics and driver chips do not “know” the chips on the end are missing

Return to Idemitsu

Because of what I had heard about the difficulties with blue emitters and the doubts people had, I returned to Idemitsu to speak to Takanori Kono about the doubts.
He explained that the techniques Idemitsu and DNP are developing involve a NEW blue emitter along with an active matrix CCM
What was being displayed at his booth was a small passive matrix CCM which I found ok but not really great in terms of color and brightness. He agrees.
For cell phone applications Mr. Kono believes this new blue emitter will do the trick. But not for large displays.

Samsung SDI

Samsung’s AMOLED. 2.2" full color phosphorescent AMOLED was showcased as a rectangular display in a cell phone. While I could see lines in the image and the complexions of the people looked a bit too red and the image looked a bit squeezed to me, this was the first “first high-efficiency full-color AMOLED based on phosphorescence.” It was produced by Samsung with Universal Display technology, coming from a joint development agreement signed late last year, combining Universal’s PHOLEDs with Samsung’s poly-silicon TFT technology.

“The power consumption of this display is approximately 50% less than a comparable fluorescent OLED display and 20% less than a similar backlit LCD,” said a Samsung SDI vp. Samsung developed the encapsulation of the OLED. I asked whether there were problems with sunlight, but was told there were none because of the encapsulation.

Cambridge Display Technology, along with Kodak , is the other big patent portfolio holder in the OLED world.



At a press conference CEO David Fyfe gave an overview of where things stand with CDT:

- In January 2002 CDT announced they had completed their LEP technology development center in the UK $25 million dollar.
- They are confident that Organic Light Emiting Diodes are going to replace the big and bulky CRTs in TV and computers.
-With Philips’ product shown at SID, and the fact that they are delivering in mass quantities and achieving high yields is incredible at this stage of the game: OLEDs are maturing fast he said. in materials: licensing to Bayer, Sumitomo, Covion, Dow.
The Bayer agreement for the commercialization of materials critical to LEP displays was signed in early May - for work on a high resistance version of the critical charge transport material (hole transport layer, HTL;
On deposition of polymers CDT is working with Seiko Epson and Litrex; on process equipment with Tokki and Ulvac. Luxell is a collaborator for Black Layer optics enhancement; working on device electronics with ST Electronics.

The two drivers of the market in Fyfe’s view are broadband technology and its need for better displays, and the evolution from CRT to LCD to LEP.
It will take the rest of this decade, in his view, to proceed in that evolution. CDT sees itself as facilitating the supply chain in every way:
Fyfe says progress has been made in the lifespan: Toshiba’s OLED, for example lasts 5,000 hours - close to the spec for wireless devices
(That seems odd in my view- 5, 000 hours- that is the lifespan of a cell phone? Am I too loyal to my gadgets?)
The Philips shaver is a good example of a pilot project where the company gains experience with a product and can look for other apps from there.
Dupont Ritek he predicts, will have an LEP screen in the third Q of this year.
Seiko Epson will have a full-color mobile phone screen out in midyear 2003.

According to CDT, OLED display market might grow as high as $2.5 billion in revenue by 2007 And, Fyfe declares airily, consumers will be willing to pay 15-30 % more for OLED technology!
It appears they feel confident that they have the market wrapped up.

On the question of blue emitters, Fyfe says briefly, CDT is making strides in the development

eMagin.

What looks like a clunky set of goggle glasses turns out to be a binocular headset with built-in stereovision capability with an OLED, in its first US showing of the technology. Very cool to see a simulation of a copter flying ...obviously this will be a hit with gamers and the military...so the app is for stereovision gamers, CAD systems. The computer generated animation was in full color. As I put this on I thought there is a potential medical application in this, but perhaps the gamers will be the biggest segment.
The head-mounted displays attracted attention, and so did the Knight Eye OLED thermal imager, which looks like a little videocamera with viewfinder, but when you look through it becomes clear this is a combat instrument to detect objects in total darkness.
The company Liteye has picked eMagin’s display as the smallest and lightest handheld imager available. They are also talking about lifetime of 5,000 hours.



I liked the idea of a non-immersive display at Microoptical’s booth, and talked to Victoria Godfrey about the nausea factor in gaming...it seems that nausea comes from not being able to see an horizon, and the lack of familiar haptic or skin sensations. Microoptical intends to mount displays onto and eventually into glasses.
One current model available is rather geeky looking, a monocular viewer that attaches to eyeglasses as a mounted mini display, for industrial and medical applications.
For 2003 they have planned a “binocular viewer” for the consumer market. A slim and transparent frame with integrated DVD was playing Toy Story on an AMLCD and it was very neat indeed. The company buys the LCDs and develops the drive electronics for the system.
Further on the development pipeline was a ‘50’s looking frame with integrated display within the glass itself. I have seen people on the MIT campus with this kind of device for wearable computers. You could be watching a DVD while standing in line or checking your e-mail.... Very neat.

E-Ink
With all the talk about color displays it was refreshing to look into black and white technology, although they did also show a high resolution color electronic ink display developed by E Ink and Toppan, using Philips’ active matrix technology.
Toppan is a new partner for e Ink : together they displayed a card, like a credit card, with a small e-ink display integrated into it. Active matrix TFT on a steel substrate, with color filter from Toppan, back plane and the integration done by Philips. This ultra-thin and supposedly shatter-proof high res display is fabricated in flexible steel backplanes, rather than glass. These partnerships seem to be solidifying e-Ink
The more interesting application, I thought, was the high resolution display for handheld devices. A product of a partnership between Philips and e Ink. Because the eye and the consumer is used to a certain look for black on white this seems like an ambitious project.

I saw a 5”AM display 320 x 234 resolution with e Ink technology. Very clear, pretty legible, although not as nice as my morning newspaper. e-Ink agrees that work remains to be done and promises to double the resolution in the next year.
It is not quite paper-like, though, despite the name .E ink displays, says the company, are more than six times brighter than reflective LCDs. E Ink is bi-stable, so a fixed image can remain on the screen after the power is shut off. The bright background eliminates the need for backlight
The display panels are expected to be 50% thinner and lighter than traditional LCD displays. since they need no polarizers or glass topsheets.. (Nobody mentioned cholesterics, also bi-stable- that will be competition for e-books.

This year`s SID opened into a far tougher climate than last year`s. Sept. 11th stopped our world for a while. And more than 80,000 people vanished, or were on borrowed time, from the recession of the semiconductor companies that own display. The LCoS` near-to-eye were all but gone, FEDs retreated to a few U. labs.The LCDs were getting better still (Samsung, showing a remarkable profit, also showed a 40"AMLCD.) Plasma efficiencies and cost-for size are slowly advancing, if not their sales, and Westaim continues developing a cheaper alternative to plasma`s big screen (though the definition of `cheaper` is expanding) And electrophoretic is being reborn.
OLEDs progress was slowed, but unstopped.. OLEDs were demonstrated for entertainment, cameras, signs, lighting, automotive even shaving uses, and of course, cellphones, PDAs.

Recognizing the problems of OLEDs: efficiencies, plastic (flexible) substrates, power vs size, desiccants, encapsulation, color lifetimes, lifetime of blue - in a class by itself- hasn`t stopped the bandwagon. Financial problems have slowed small molecule-- but PLEDs, driven by Dupont especially, by Philips, CDT, will be manufactured this year.

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picture credits:

Toshiba OLED, Kodak`s OLED v LCD, Kodak`s Chin Wan Tang, PHOLED display, Dupont full color PM OLED, Dupont`s curved phone, Philips` 1.4` Polymer OLED, Optrex` automobile guage, eMagin booth at SID, e-Ink panel courtesy Philips Mobile Display Systems.

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Luxell Announces Third Quarter Results for Fiscal 2002
TORONTO, July 18 /CNW/ - Luxell Technologies Inc. (TSX:LUX - News) today announced that revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2002, ending May 31, 2002, increased 19% to $651,100, compared with $549,149 for the same period in the last fiscal year. The net loss for the third quarter was $1,772,903 or ($0.05) per share compared to a loss of $1,789,237 or ($0.06) per share for the third quarter of 2001. Loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) for the third quarter was $1,378,476, compared to a loss of $1,397,823 for the same period last year. Revenues for the quarter resulted from high performance display product shipments.
Revenues for the nine-month period ended May 31, 2002 increased by 67% to $3,318,820 compared to $1,992,429 for the same period last year. The net loss for the nine months ended May 31, 2002 was $3,680,426 or ($0.11) per share compared to a loss of $4,408,354 or ($0.15) per share for the same period of fiscal 2001. Loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) improved to $2,516,862 compared to a loss of $3,137,044 for the same period last year.

During the quarter the Company introduced a new marketing program that allows prospective customers to fully evaluate our Black Layer(TM) technologies and processes sooner before entering into a full license agreement. In addition to the previously announced Black Layer agreements with Tohoku Pioneer and Cambridge Display Technology, two new evaluation programs have commenced with major OLED manufacturers and discussions are underway with a number of others.

Brian Kennedy, Luxell`s President and CEO stated "We continue to work closely with our industry leading partners to design, optimize and qualify our Black Layer technologies for their mass manufacturing environments. Significant resources are continuing to be deployed to effectively move forward with our technology transfer work plans. Given the unique display structures and complex production processes of each partner, we are extending current technology transfer programs to meet their specific needs. As a result, there were no licensing revenues recognized in the third quarter."

Kennedy added, "Given the nature of introducing new technology to the semi-conductor/flat panel display mass manufacturing environment, we are satisfied with our implementation progress and market penetration to date. We remain confident that Luxell`s Black Layer technology will be adopted with major manufacturers and set a new standard in the flat panel display industry."

During the quarter the Company enhanced its capability towards the development of next-generation flat panel display technologies as evidenced by the appointment of Dr. Woo Young Kim as Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Kim is responsible for leading the research, development and implementation of Luxell`s technologies, related production processes and technology transfer to the Company`s licensees. Dr. Kim has begun expanding his R&D team and infrastructure, as well as leveraging his extensive Pacific Rim relationships and networks in advancing new technology initiatives.

In addition, the Company added to its intellectual property management capabilities by retaining Andrew Currier P.Eng., LLB as in-house Vice- President Intellectual Property & General Counsel. Mr. Currier is an electrical engineer, lawyer and is also qualified to practice as a patent agent before the Canadian and U.S. patent offices. Mr. Currier has responsibility for all aspects of the Company`s intellectual property portfolio including the negotiation of licensing agreements, filing and defense of the Company`s patents. The Company filed 5 new provisional Black Layer related patent applications in the quarter.

Fiscal 2002 Q3 results and future prospects will be discussed by the Company in a conference call at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 18, 2002. The call can be accessed by dialing [phone] or [phone]. For those unable to participate, instant replay will be available until midnight, Thursday, July 25, 2002. To access the replay, dial [phone] or [phone] and quote the pass code 1226909.

About Luxell

Luxell Technologies Inc. is a leading designer, manufacturer and licensor of flat panel display technologies and solutions for consumer electronics, defense and aerospace industries. The Company`s growth strategy is focused on licensing agreements, strategic partnering with original equipment manufacturers that supply flat panel displays to mass consumer markets and direct sales of its high performance display solutions. Luxell`s partners include some of the most respected names in the display industry, including Pioneer Tohoku Corporation, Cambridge Display Technology and Hitachi High- Technologies. More information can be found at www.luxell.com.




(C) Luxell Technologies Inc., 2002. Luxell and Black Layer are trademarks
of Luxell Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers.

For further information

Brian Kennedy, President & Chief Executive Officer, [e-mail], [phone] ext 223
Roman Kocur, Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary, [e-mail], [phone] ext. 222

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Luxell announces new orders from Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems for high performance displays
Wednesday November 27, 6:00 am ET


TORONTO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Luxell Technologies Inc. (TSX:LUX - News) today announced its High Performance Display ("HPD") Division has received additional new orders valued at approximately CDN $1.0 million for its high performance flat panel displays ("FPD") from Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT - News) of Bethesda, Maryland and BAE Systems PLC (FTSE:BA.L) of London, U.K.
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Luxell will supply Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems with Data Entry Panel ("DEP") display units, a military-qualified control instrument that permits natural and quick touch-screen data entry and system control. The displays will be used in avionics systems that Lockheed is installing in the U.S. Navy`s P3 Long-Range Patrol Aircraft as part of the United States Navy`s Anti-Surface Warfare Improvement ("AIP") and BLOCKMOD UPDATE ("BMUP") programs.

Luxell also will ship its 3ATI thin film electroluminescent ("TFEL") displays in support of BAE`s Sky Guardian 2000 system, part of its Radar Warning Receivers ("RWR") program utilized in Royal Navy Sea King and EH101 helicopters.

"Our relationship with military customers continues to validate our display technology expertise and our strength to turn demanding challenges in the military environment into tightly packaged, system-integrated, state-of- the-art display solutions," said Louis Joubert, General Manager of Luxell`s HPD division.

Luxell`s HPD division designs and builds high performance custom display modules and instrumentation for industrial, military, and aerospace applications. The Company`s relationship with both Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems is long-standing, with Luxell shipping its first high performance flat panel displays in 1997.

About Luxell

Luxell Technologies Inc. is a leading designer, manufacturer and licensor of flat panel display technologies and solutions for consumer electronics, defense and aerospace industries. In addition to direct sales of its high performance display solutions, the Company`s growth strategy is focused on licensing agreements and strategic partnering with original equipment manufacturers that supply flat panel displays to mass consumer markets. More information can be found at www.luxell.com.

(C) Luxell Technologies Inc., 2002. Luxell and Black Layer are trademarks of Luxell Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers.



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Luxell updates status on its Black Layer agreement with Tohoku Pioneer
Friday November 29, 12:14 pm ET


TORONTO, Nov. 29 /CNW/ - Luxell Technologies Inc. (TSX:LUX - News) today announced that Tohoku Pioneer of Japan notified that it will not be incorporating Luxell`s Black Layer contrast enhancement technology into its current OLED display products. However, the companies will continue discussions towards a research and development effort for potentially incorporating Black Layer into Pioneer`s future OLED products and intend to meet early in 2003. No assurance can be given that these discussions will be successful.
"We are disappointed in this outcome at Tohoku Pioneer" said Brian Kennedy, Luxell`s President & CEO. "However, Luxell continues to make progress with its overall Black Layer technology program. The Company now has a dozen Black Layer evaluations and discussions underway with major flat panel display companies, including active matrix OLED producers."

Luxell also announced a Black Layer OLED product initiative with Hyundai LCD Inc. for handheld and automotive applications and a licensing agreement with Lite Array, a subsidiary of Global-Tech Appliances Inc.

About Luxell

Luxell Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures and licenses flat panel display technologies and solutions for consumer electronics, defense and aerospace markets. More information can be found at www.luxell.com.


(C) Luxell Technologies Inc., 2002. Luxell and Black Layer are trademarks
of Luxell Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers.

For further information

Investor & media contact: Roman Kocur, Chief Financial Officer, [e-mail], [phone] ext. 222



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Luxell & Hyundai LCD announce OLED display initiative for handheld & automotive applications
Friday November 29, 12:23 pm ET


TORONTO, ON and ICHEON, Korea, Nov. 29 /CNW/ - Luxell Technologies Inc. (TSX:LUX - News) and Hyundai LCD Inc., Icheon, Korea, today announced a joint product initiative to incorporate Hyundai`s organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology and Luxell`s Black Layer contrast enhancement technology to address mobile phone, PDA, automotive, and other applications. Hyundai LCD is among the world`s top ten TN/STN LCD manufacturers and the second largest producer of STN LCD panels for the automotive industry. The first production pilot scale prototype, a 2.1-inch Black Layer monochrome passive matrix OLED display, is expected to be available in Spring 2003. No other terms were disclosed.
"Our goal is to become a global leader in the area of small and medium sized display devices," said Soo-Woon Youn, President of Hyundai LCD. "Hyundai LCD is expanding rapidly into next generation display devices which include OLEDs. Luxell`s Black Layer technology will help us make the quantum leap."

Hyundai LCD is now producing Color STN LCDs and actively developing TFT LCDs and OLED products, which are expected to expand its application areas into digital cameras, PDAs and other handheld devices. The market for small flat displays is growing rapidly as the mobile communications market expands. Future mobile devices will require low power consumption, high speed response, and compact and light displays. OLED technology is designed to meet these requirements. Hyundai LCD is planning mass production of color active matrix OLED displays by 2004.

"We are excited to be working with Hyundai LCD, a significant player in LCD displays, to develop their next generation display devices using OLEDs with our Black Layer," said Brian Kennedy, Luxell President & CEO. "Our collaboration is also expected to yield prototypes which Luxell can use to support the implementation of other Black Layer licensees in the future."

Dr. Woo Young Kim, Luxell Chief Technology Officer, added, "Both companies are dedicating pilot scale production and R&D resources in the workplan to share process know how and produce multiple passive matrix OLED prototypes which will include RGB color."

About Hyundai LCD

Hyundai LCD was operated as a division of Hynix Semiconductor manufacturing and selling TN/STN LCDs during the past 10 years. As of January 1, 2002, new investors from China and Korea acquired the business with the mission to provide a total solution in small and medium sized flat panel displays. The company has been providing passive matrix LCD solutions for mobile phones, automotive products, industrial equipment and other applications. More information can be found at www.hylcd.com.

About Luxell

Luxell Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures and licenses flat panel display technologies and solutions for consumer electronics, defense and aerospace markets. More information can be found at www.luxell.com.


(C) Luxell Technologies Inc., 2002. Luxell and Black Layer are trademarks
of Luxell Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers.

For further information

Investor & media contact: Roman Kocur, Chief Financial Officer, Luxell Technologies Inc., [e-mail], [phone] ext. 222



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