OREANDA-NEWS. Sharp's SH-02E smartphone with IGZO LCD panel, sold by NTT Docomo in Japan, has won the Gold Award in the Display of the Year category, part of the 2013 Display Industry Awards sponsored by the SID (Society for Information Display). The Moth Eye® technology used in Sharp's AQUOS XL9 lineup was also honored, winning the Silver Award in the Display Component of the Year category.

With over 6,000 members, SID is the world's largest industry organization for displays. It sponsors the Display Industry Awards, influential industry honors for novel and outstanding developments in display technology. Gold and silver awards are presented in the three categories of display products, display applications, and display devices and materials.

Sharp's SH-02E received the Gold Award in the Display of the Year category for products incorporating novel and outstanding displays. The award recognizes the product's superb energy efficiency thanks to IGZO, a display technology that allows the phone to be used for two days*5 without recharging.

Sharp's Moth Eye® technology won the Silver Award in the Display Component of the Year category for devices and materials that contribute to major improvements in display performance. Sharp took honors in this category for how the technology dramatically reduces screen reflectance and improves color reproduction through a structure in which, as the name suggests, moth-eye-like nanostructures are formed on film.