Electronic Displays, Touch Screens, and Human Machine Interfaces

What are Display Modules and Why Does it Matter?

Display modules are electronic components that include LED (Light Emitting Diodes), OLED (Organic LEDs), LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) modules, and emerging technologies designed to make displays lighter, thinner, brighter, and more energy efficient.

What is a Touch Screen Module?

When coupled with touch sensing functionality, displays double as touch screen Human-Machine Interfaces allowing users to interact with a device. Displays and touch screen modules are so versatile that they have become ubiquitous in today’s connected world. Users expect new products to leverage touch screens and displays as an interface, making them an essential design component across most applications. Application requirements for each touch screen can vary significantly and quickly become one of the most complex components of your product that differentiates the unique user experience.

Why Boyd?

We innovate how optical materials converge to solve OEM challenges, streamline access to material innovation, and optimize how display integrators assimilate optical components in a display stack.

We help you select optimal materials that balance achieving your desired performance while optimizing cost and assembly complexity.

Our material science breadth gives you streamlined access to the world’s most advanced optical material innovation and all key suppliers.

We give you unlimited flexibility in material combinations to enhance performance and enrich value.

Our Design for Manufacturing (DFM) assures your display components easily assimilate in your display subassemblies.

Our ability to source and manufacture product in all key geographies gives you regional flexibility.

We have experience supporting and managing all major display integrators with long term, existing relationships.

laptop, tablet, and mobile display

Industrial HMI

Informational Kiosk display

Medical Device Touch Screen

Healthcare Display Solution

Office Equipment display

Smart Appliance Interface

Avionic Display

In Flight Entertainment System

Automotive and Commercial Vehicle Dashboard

Smart Agriculture display

Retail Interface

Advanced Display and Touch Screen Benefits:

Enhanced User Experience: Intuitive user interface easily displays dynamic information and menus for a broad range of functionality.

Differentiated Brand Experience: Well-designed displays offer a more immersive experience with rich vivacity, sharp contrast, and reliable performance in diverse settings with various light levels and sources.

Distinguished Sustainability: Smart designs optimize display battery consumption by using low profile, lightweight advanced filmic materials to concentrate produced light toward the viewer, maximizing the visual experience and reducing overall display module weight.

Display Challenges:

Design Knowledge: With displays proliferating across most applications, diverse OEMs may not have design expertise, material experience, or know-how to best integrate displays into their applications.

Manufacturing Complexity: Challenge to achieve high yield rates with difficult to handle adhesive or film materials and high optical clarity requirements.

Increased Cost*: Additional high quality components can drive up cost and price of your end product, but may differentiate it with an improved user experience.

The Boyd Difference for Advanced Display and Touchscreen Solutions

We’ve innovated our advanced material fabrication processes over the last 20 years to consistently deliver high quality optical display components with exceptional tolerance control at high volume mass production to help the most sophisticated mobile electronics brands in the world optimize display performance and component cost. We continue to tirelessly push advanced display component process innovation to help our customers continue to differentiate and leverage our heritage to help brands new to advanced displays navigate this complex technology.

Boyd’s Advanced Display Heritage

15+ years of field-proven performance in display applications
1 billion + display components shipped
5 million + Micro OLED component installations

Trusted advisor to OEMs and Tier 1 partners
Pioneer in critical display solutions for electronics and electric vehicle applications
End-to-end in-house validation

Segmented Frame Technology

Boyd’s proprietary Segmented Frame Technology leverages our deep, innovative processing knowledge with proprietary designed advanced rotary converting equipment to integrate multiple material layers at maximum raw material utilization. We’re able to combine multiple display bill of material (BOM) components in one-pass manufacturing for one easy-to-assemble final product deliverable that helps our customers accelerate assembly processes as they integrate display modules into their applications.

Tolerance control down to +/-0.05mm
Integrate multiple materials and display components into one easy-to-assemble final product
Improve assembly cycle time
Maximize raw material use
Minimize material yield loss
Integrate display mount adhesives, bezel bonds, cushions, spacers, insulation, thermal management, shielding performance, and optical functionality into one component

Material Science and Handling Expertise

Optical materials are designed to enhance display performance and efficiency. To do this effectively, they must be visually perfect and free of foreign debris and contaminants. These specialty materials require special protocols to assure zero defects impacting how optical and display materials are transported, packaged, stored, handled, and processed.

Boyd maintains a variety of clean room environments in all key geographies with processes and protocols to handle and fabricate display materials with increasing levels of cleanliness requirements:

Contaminant-free material storage and handling protocols
Cleanroom raw material slitting and preparation processes
Cleanroom advanced rotary converting manufacturing lines
Cleanroom flat bed converting manufacturing lines
Cleanroom cosmetic inspection
Class 100 clean rooms
Class 1000 (Class 1K) clean rooms
Class 10000 (Class 10K) clean rooms
Class 100000 (Class 100K) clean rooms
UV sensitive clean room manufacturing
Temperature sensitive material handling processes

Cleanroom environments include ongoing monitoring to assure optical materials and display components are contaminant-free and on-specification:

Filter installation leak testing
Airborne particle count testing
Airflow velocity testing
Temperature testing
Relative humidity testing
Light intensity level testing
Sound pressure level testing
Room pressurization testing

Supply Chain

The display module value chain is very complex with many players. Boyd helps to simplify this for you, delivering differentiated performance at optimal total cost.

Raw material suppliers innovate material formulations and enhance material performance. They produce large format rolls and sheets of raw display materials. Boyd has strategic supply relationships, dating 50+ years, with the leading raw material suppliers like 3M, tesa, and Nitto. We continue to actively search for new entrants with innovative materials that can help our customers differentiate experience.

Many OEMs rely on Display Integrators to design and deliver custom display modules that meet their needs. These integrators are experts in display module design and assembly, delivering on-specification subassemblies to OEMs for integration into their final product. Boyd has 15+ year relationships with the world’s leading display integrators. We continue to establish new strategic relationships with new market entrants as our customers evolve their preferred display integrator partners.

Leverage Boyd's 15+ years of display expertise to enhance your product.

Key Display Terms to Know

Term	Definition
Battery Adhesives	Tapes that secure batteries near a display stack with high temperature-resistant adhesives. Increases product safety and extends battery life.
Regulatory Labels	UL compliant regulatory labels assure high brand compliance, safety warnings, and traceability.
Camera Gasket	Combined adhesive and film or foam that protects camera modules from water, vibration, and contaminants. Extends lifetime and improves performance.
Capacitive Touch Module	Tactile interface surface that enables users to interact with a device via touch. Has been replacing traditional membrane switches, elastomers, and full travel keyboards as the primary input method on many product designs.
Conductive Backlight Housing	Mechanical and thermally conductive structure that simultaneously supports the backlight unit and conducts heat away from the display to the ambient environment. Controlled backlight operating temperature maximizes color vivacity and display lifetime.
Diffuser Film	Specialized film that evenly distributes light across the screen. Optimizes full display visibility for better screen clarity, vivacity, and color trueness at a wider viewing angle.
Display Integration	Minimize engineering, design, and supply chain complexity with fully integrated subassemblies that include all display components, optical films, adhesives, and gaskets with a display housing and all connectors for streamlined assembly into your devices.
Brightness Enhancement Film	Specialized film that intensifies brightness, improves the user experience and display energy efficiency.
EMI Shielding	Shielding layer to reduce electronic malfunction susceptibility by blocking unwanted external electromagnetic waves to improve device and signal reliability. Eliminates internal display component cross talk.
Foam Adhesives	Prevent cracked or separated screens with strong display adhesion to the device, cushioned to absorb shock and vibration.
Front Frame Gaskets and Seals	Adhesive (foam) gaskets that ruggedize the joint between displays and front glass panels. Cushions vibration and shock to extend life and improve customer satisfaction.
(Graphite) Heat Spreaders	Thin, lightweight, thermally conductive material that spreads heat away from localized hot spots from high performance components. Maintains safe touch temperatures and prevents overheating.
LCD	Liquid Crystal Display
Lightguide Panel	Panel or film that concentrates and amplifies light from the backlight to the viewer. Improves display richness, sharpness, and efficiency.
LED	Light Emitting Diode
OLED	Organic Light Emitting Diode
Optically Clear Adhesives (OCAs)	Optically clear adhesive that mechanically joins surfaces with a matching refractive index to reduce light loss between substrates and give the appearance of being optically clear or invisible. Maximizes display clarity.
Protective Film	Films intended to prevent screen scratches or cracking during manufacturing, logistics, assembly, temporary consumer use, or durable long term protection.
Reflector Films	Films that reflect light through the display, concentrating all generated display module light toward the viewer. More light reaching the user maximizes energy efficiency, vivacity, and color trueness.
Segmented Frame Display Bonding Gasket	Boyd-developed proprietary high volume manufacturing processes to cut four pieces of a display frame separately and assemble into one deliverable with zero gap joint tolerances for waterproofing and dimensional control. Passes IP67 and push-out testing. Enhanced sealing performance with best raw material utilization.
Speaker Mesh	Acoustically transparent synthetic or woven metal mesh filters enable high quality audio while sealing out water and contaminants. Seal out water and particulates from devices with acoustically transparent filters for high quality speakers and microphones.

Closing

Boyd has shipped more than 1 billion display components over 15+ years. We’ve helped the leading mobile electronics brands differentiate their products with high performance displays that enrich the immersive consumer experience, reduce weight and battery drain while pushing the boundaries in creative manufacturing that optimizes cost.