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How an AF (Anti-Fingerprint) coating clears a fingerprint
The amount of oil a fingertip leaves behind is the same with or without the coating. What changes is the shape it settles into. Drop the surface critical tension to 6 mN/m and oil that lay flat on bare glass below a 10 degree contact angle stands up at 65, and with a sliding angle of 6 degrees it rolls off the moment the panel is tilted.
Article title Surface Treatment: AF (Anti-Fingerprint)
Twelve display-related papers, briefly introduced, picked out of 1,296 screened across 31 major journals. One on a transparent QLED electrode is covered as a separate in-depth article.
To build a screen that becomes a window when it goes dark, the electrode laid on top has to pass light, carry current and push electrons in as well. Lay silver down at 10 nanometres and it works, except that silver at that thickness grows scattered like islands. A team at Pusan National University and DGIST laid the seed layer in two layers rather than one and split the roles between them.
Moving something means sticking it down and letting it go. What switches that adhesion on and off is what splits mass transfer into five branches. Yet not one of the companies that had only the moving technology kept its own patents. They went to Apple right after collateral was released, through an assignment for the benefit of creditors, and to a bonding equipment maker.
A panel company came out holding a semiconductor substrate. It is true that both the glass composition and large-area handling were made by display first. Yet the volume production schedules of all three companies have slipped, and working back from the via density written into the patents, the 40% yield the industry calls low already means succeeding at a single via 99.9964% of the time. The large area that was the reason for choosing glass is cutting that yield directly.
The best display panel award at IMID 2026 went not to FLiPP but to HDS. Data transmission speed was doubled, yet the refresh rate rose only 15%, from 144Hz to 165Hz. Spend the whole doubling and 288Hz should come out. We followed where the rest went, through the time given to a single gate line.