LG Display said on the 19th that, following its win of the display industry's most prestigious honor, the Society for Information Display (SID) "Karl Ferdinand Braun Award," it has also added a new fellow.
Choi Hyun-chul, head of business at LG Display, received the SID "Karl Ferdinand Braun Award." The "Karl Ferdinand Braun Award" was established by SID to commemorate Karl Ferdinand Braun, the Nobel Prize in physics laureate who invented the cathode-ray tube. Given to those who pioneered foundational industrial technologies, it is also called the "Nobel Prize of the display industry."
Choi is a veteran who has worked in the display industry for more than 30 years and received the award in recognition of popularizing organic light-emitting diode (OLED). By developing high-efficiency panels with multi-stack structures such as tandem, he enabled OLED's expansion into TVs, high-performance IT devices, and automotive displays. Before that, he achieved various research results including developing in-plane switching (IPS), LG Display's high-end liquid crystal display (LCD) wide-viewing-angle technology.
Yang Jun-young, head of the Advanced Technology Research Institute at LG Display, was named a fellow by SID. Each year, SID selects fellows solely from within the top 0.1% of members with outstanding research achievements, based on recommendations from past fellows and a rigorous review by the committee. Once appointed, fellowship is granted for life.
SID said in selecting Yang as a fellow that he "has led the development of various flexible displays, including stretchable and rollable," and "made significant contributions to the development of various next-generation displays, including OLEDoS."
Yang joined LG Display in 1995 and has developed high-resolution display technologies. He developed fundamental technologies such as micro LED light sources and stretchable panel structures and materials. In 2023, he unveiled the world's first 12-inch full-color stretchable display that flexibly extends up to 20%, winning Best Paper and the "People's Choice."