Texas Instruments’ DLP® technology is an all-digital display technology with the Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) at its heart, a semiconductor-based „light switch“ array of thousands of individually addressable, or tiltable, mirror-pixels. With more than 16 million units shipped since 1996, the DLP chip has proven its reliability and robustness and is the only mass produced spatial light modulator capable of addressing a broad spectrum of Visible, IR and UV wavelengths.

The DLP® Discovery™ products are DLP-based developer’s kits that are capable of extremely fast switching speeds, high resolution performance and offer developers a flexible platform to design products using the proven reliability of DLP technology. Innovative companies and creative engineers are using DLP Discovery products to develop micro display based high-tech solutions in a wide variety of different markets and applications.

Medical visualization systems offer accurate and non-invasive opportunities to look into the body or assist during medical treatments. Direct imaging systems enable throughput performance improvements in high precision PCB manufacturing. 3D surface measurements with structured lighting facilitate precise and real-time measurements for many industries. Material science and analysis use hyper-spectroscopy to identify chemical compositions, and detect impurities. Many other fields of application also benefit from the unique properties of the DLP technology.

The annual International Symposium on Emerging and Industrial DLP® Applications is organized by OpSys Project Consulting, Optence e.V. and Photonik Zentrum Hessen in Wetzlar AG. The symposium will address technical and application aspects of industrial DLP® systems, including discussions on light sources, optical challenges and electronics solutions. Supported by the sponsors Texas Instruments Inc. (DLP® Products), Visitech AS and In-Vision Digital Imaging GmbH and accompanied by a small comprehensive industrial exhibition, the symposium is the ideal place to gather background information on industrial DLP® microdisplay systems and to meet with the industry and solution providers.