Johan Bergquist
Principal EngineerUser Interace Technologies, Tokyo
Johan joined the Visual Communications Laboratory of Nokia Research Center as Senior Research Engineer in 1999. He has a background in nonlinear optics and quantum-well semiconductor physics and has worked in the area of displays since 1993.
Professional Activities
- Reviewer in IEEE Journal of Display Technology and Journal of the Society for Information Display
- Member of the Applied Vision and Human Factors Programme Committee, International Display Workshops, 2006-present
- Member of Organic Electroluminencence Displays (OLED) Committee, Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, 2006-2011
- Member of the Liquid Crystal Display Committee, Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, 2006-2011
- Member of the Electronic Display Committee, Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, 2006-2011
- Member of the International Committee on Display Measurements (ICDM), Society for Information Display, 2006-2009
- Member of the Backlight Project Team, Technical Committee 110, International Electrotechnical Commission, 2008-2009
- Project co-leader of the Horizontal Harmonization Group, Technical Committee 110, International Electrotechnical Commission, 2006-2009
- Member of Working Group 2 (liquid crystal displays), Technical Committee 110, International Electrotechnical Commission, 2006-2009
- Member of Working Group 5 (organic electroluminencence displays), Technical Committee 110, International Electrotechnical Commission, 2006-2009
- Member of Applied Vision Programme committee, Society for Information Display International Symposium, 2002-2006
- Member of the Display Metrology Committee, Video Electronics Standardisation Association (VESA), 2002-2005
- Visiting Associate Professor at Cooperative Research Center, Shinshu University, April 1999 - March 2000
- Member of the Public Relations Committee, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, April 1998 - March 1999
- Member of the Oyo Buturi International Editorial Board, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, December 1997 - March 1999
- Member of the Science and Technology Action Group (STAG), British Chamber of Commerce in Japan, 1994-1997. STAG published a book on foreign scientists working in Japan
Research Interests
- Display and liquid crystal physics
- Applied vision and ergonomics
- Colour science
- Still and moving image quality
- Display metrology
Conferences
- Johan Bergquist, "Current state and future expectations on motion quality of mobile displays", Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association Flat-Panel Display Ergonomics Symposium, March 5, 2010. Download in Japanese or English
- Johan Bergquist, "Display with arbitrary primary spectra", Society for Information Display Symposium (2008) Download
- Jyrki Kimmel, Tapani Levola, Pasi Saarikko, and Johan Bergquist, "Novel Diffractive Backlight Concept for Mobile Displays", Society for Information Display Symposium (2007) Download
- Johan Bergquist and Carl Wennstam, "Field-Sequential-Colour Display with Adaptive Gamut", Society for Information Display Symposium (2006) Download slides or slides with speech
- Johan Bergquist, "Resolution and contrast requirements on mobile displays for different applications in varying luminous environments", 2nd International Symposium on Nanovision Science, Hamamatsu (2005) Download
- Johan Bergquist, "Visual Ergonomics Challenges in Information-Intensive Mobile Displays", 10th International Display Workshops, Fukuoka (2003) Download
- Johan Bergquist, "Display Requirements for Mobile Information Terminals", 2nd International Display Manufacturing Conference, Seoul (2002) Download
- Johan Bergquist, "Next Generation Display Technologies for Electronic Books in Japan", 2nd Annual E-Book Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland, September 21-22, 1999 Download
Personal Information
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy in physics, School of Physics and Physics Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, 1994. Dissertation: Two-Photon Absorption in Semiconductors and Ferroelectrics. Download
- Master of Science in physics engineering, School of Physics and Physics Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 1988. Thesis: Experimental Study of Optical Nonlinearity by Giant Dipole Moment of Virtual Excitons in DC-biased AlGaAs/GaAs Multiple Quantum Wells. Download
- Russian grammar and literature, 10 credits, Department of Slavic Languages, University of Göteborg, Sweden, January - June 1988
- Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter Academy, Uppsala, June 1985 - August 1986
- Russian grammar and literature, 20 credits, Department of Slavic Languages, Uppsala University, Sweden, August 1985 - June 1986
- Eastern European politics and economics, 20 credits, Department of Eastern European Studies, Uppsala University, August 1985 - June 1986
- High school programme in natural sciences specialising in computer technology, Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet, Göteborg, September 1980 - June 1983
Experience
- Senior Technology Analyst, Asian Technology Information Program, Tokyo, September 1995 - August 1999
- Technology Analyst, Asian Technology Information Program, Tokyo, September 1995 - September 1998
- Research Associate, Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, July 1994 - August 1995
- Strategic R&D Analyst, R&D Headquarters, Canon Inc., Kawasaki, Japan, April 1992 - February 1993
- Research Scientist, Quantum Electronics Laboratory, Exploratory Research Division, Canon Research Centre, Atsugi, Japan, January 1990 - March 1992
- Research Scientist, Electro-Optics Division, Canon Research Centre, April - December 1989
- Trainee, Theory Exploratory Division, Canon Research Centre, August 1988 - February 1989
- Lecturer in BASIC programming (part time), Medborgarskolan (Open University), Göteborg, 1983 - 1985
- Lecturer in assembler programming (part time), Datainterface Inc., Göteborg, 1983 - 1984
- Software Developer (part time), Datainterface Inc., 1983 - 1984
- Practical training at the Volvo Genuine Parts Supply Centre, summer of 1986
- Holiday work at Lion Ferry AB, 1981-1983
Other Information
Memberships
- Society for Information Display
- SPIE (certificate)
- Optical Society of America
- Japanese Liquid Crystal Society
- The Japan Society of Applied Physics
- National Japanese Committee of Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage (CIE)
- The Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan
- The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
- The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers
- Forum for advancement of three dimensional image technology and arts
- Holographic Display Artists and Engineers Club
- Plasma Display Technology Evaluation Group
Publications
- Sachi Mizobuchi, Shinya Terasaki, Jukka Häkkinen, Erkki Heinonen, Johan Bergquist, Mark Chignell, "The effect of stereoscopic viewing in a word-search task with a layered background", Journal of the Society for Information Display 16(11), 1105-1113 (2008). Download
- Johan Bergquist, "Display with arbitrary primary spectra", Society for Information Display Symposium Digest, 39, 783-786 (2008) Download
- Jyrki Kimmel, Tapani Levola, Pasi Saarikko, and Johan Bergquist, "Novel Diffractive Backlight Concept for Mobile Displays", Journal of the Society for Information Display 16(2), 351-357 (2008). Download
- Jyrki Kimmel, Tapani Levola, Pasi Saarikko, and Johan Bergquist, "Novel Diffractive Backlight Concept for Mobile Displays", Society for Information Display Symposium Digest, 38, 42-45 (2007) Download
- Johan Bergquist and Carl Wennstam, "Field-Sequential-Colour Display with Adaptive Gamut", Society for Information Display Symposium Digest, 37, 1594-1597 (2006) Download
- Johan Bergquist, "Resolution and contrast requirements on mobile displays for different applications in varying luminous environments", Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Nanovision Science, Hamamatsu, 143-145 (2005) Download
- Johan Bergquist, "Visual Ergonomics Challenges in Information-Intensive Mobile Displays", Proceedings of the 10th International Display Workshops, Fukuoka, 1487-1490 (2003) Download
- Johan Bergquist, "Display Requirements for Mobile Information Terminals", Proceedings of the 2nd International Display Manufacturing Conference, Seoul, Paper 22-2 (2003) Download
- Johan Bergquist, "Next Generation Display Technologies for Electronic Books in Japan", 2nd Annual Workshop on Electronic Books, National Institute of Standards, Gaithersburg, (1999) Download
- Y. Tomita and J. Bergquist, "Photorefractive And Thermooptic Nonlinearities In Potassium Sodium Strontium Barium Niobate Single Crystals", Optoelectronics 8(3), 357-377 (1993) Download
- Y. Tomita, J. Bergquist, and M. Shibata, "Photorefractive Properties of Undoped, Cr-doped, and Cu-doped KNSBN crystals", Journal of the Optical Society of America B10(1), 94-99 (1993) Download
- J. Bergquist, Y. Tomita, and M. Shibata, "Near Infrared Photorefractivity in Cr-doped Potassium Sodium Strontium Barium Niobate Single Crystal", Applied Physics A55, 61-64 (1992) Download
- M. Shibata, Y. Tomita, and J. Bergquist, "Time-Resolved Nonlinear Absorption with Picosecond Two-Beam Excitation in Semi-Insulating Semiconductors", Kogaku 21(9), 620-628 (1992). Download Japanese, English translation
- Y. Tomita, M. Shibata, and J. Bergquist, "Effects of Free-carrier Absorption on Time-resolved Pump-probe Two-photon Absorption in Semi-insulating Semiconductors", Journal of Applied Physics 72, 1075-1079 (1992) Download
- Y. Tomita, M. Shibata, and J. Bergquist, "Pulsewidth Dependence of Time-Resolved Two-Photon Absorption with Picosecond Pump-Probe Excitation", Journal of Applied Physics 71(5), 2102-2105 (1992) Download
- K. Fujii, A. Shimizu, J. Bergquist, T. Sawada, and S. Ikeda, "Two-Photon Absorption Spectra of Quantum-Well Excitons in Static Electric Fields", Modern Physics Letters B5(17), 1133-1139 (1991) Download
- M. Shibata, Y. Tomita, and J. Bergquist, "Pico-second Photorefractive effect in Semi-insulating Semiconductors and Pulsewidth dependence on Two-photon absorption:Experiment", presented at the 52nd Meeting of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, Toyama 1991 (In Japanese)
- K. Fujii, A. Shimizu, J. Bergquist, T. Sawada, "Observation of Two-photon-absorption Quantum Confined Stark Effect in Quantum-well Structures", paper QPDP-15 presented at the 17th International Quantum Electronics Conference, Anaheim, May 1990
- K. Fujii, A. Shimizu, J. Bergquist, and T. Sawada, "Electric-Field-Induced Changes in the Two-Photon Absorption Spectrum of Multiple-Quantum-Well Structures", Physical Review Letters 65(14), 1808-1811 (1990) Download
- H. Oda, A. Ishizaki, J. Bergquist, and M. Seki, "MBE Growth of CdTe/CdMnTe Multiple Quantum Well Structure on a (001) GaAs Substrate", presented at the 2nd Conference on Advanced Process and Characterization Technology, Tokyo, 1989
Interviews
- 「国際標準」を勝ち取れ!メーカーの生き残り戦略・その舞台裏 (Winning the International Standards - behind the scenes of manufacturers' strategies for survival) NHK BS1, 4 August, 2009 (in Japanese)
- Antal färger trubbigt mått (number of addressable colours a misleading metric), Elektroniktidningen, 23 January, 2003 (in Swedish)
- Den perfekta skärmen finns inte (There is no perfect display), Elektroniktidningen, 23 January, 2003 (in Swedish)
- Platta bildskärmar med kvalitet tar över (high-quality, flat-panel displays win), Computer Sweden, May, 1996 (in Swedish)
Presentations
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Display evaluation, metrology, and metrics.Download (in Japanese)
20th LCD design technology workshop, Shintech, Inc., Tokyo, May 15th, 2009 -
Display-induced motion artefacts. Download
Seminar at the Display Institute, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Dec 19th, 2007 -
Display-induced motion artefacts. Download
Seminar at the Media Technology Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Mar 27th, 2007 -
Direct-view field-sequential display technologies for portable devices. Download (in Japanese)
Seminar at the Information Display Technology Research Committee, Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Tokyo, March 9th, 2007. -
OLEDs vs LCDs. Download
Seminar at the Advanced Display Research Center, Kyunghee University, Seoul, February 22nd, 2007. -
Digital convergence and its service development in Japan and Northern Europe. Download (in Japanese)
Seminar at the Japanese Insitute of Scandinavian Studies, March 25th, 2004. Video -
Experiences from Basic and Applied Research at Domestic and Foreign Organisations in Japan. Download
Seminar arranged by Chalmers Advanced Management Programs, International Management of Technology Program, Tokyo, November 21st, 2003. -
Mobila internettjänster i tredje generationens mobiltelefoni och andra trådlösa nätverk. Download (in Swedish)
Seminar for the Board of Regional Research in West Sweden, Tokyo, April 3rd, 2003. -
Bildskärmen viktigast i framtidens mobiltelefoner. Download (in Swedish)
Seminar at the inauguration of the Swedish LCD Center, June 2nd, 2002. -
Creating Value through Innovation - Mobile e-Business. Download
Seminar at FPD/LCD International, October 27th, 2000. -
Next Generation Mobile Terminals and their Display Requirements. Download (in Japanese)
Seminar at FPD/LCD International, October 26th, 2000. -
Requirements for Organic Electroluminescent Displays (OLEDs) in Mobile Phones. Download (in Japanese)
Seminar arranged by Electronic Journal, May 30th, 2000. -
Displayteknik för presentationsystem idag och i framtiden. Download (in Swedish)
Seminar at the Physics Department, Chalmers University of Technology, May 9th, 2000.
Patents
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Apparatus, method and module for selective pixel control of display. Download PCT patent application
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Sample-and-Hold Display with Impulse Backlight . Download U.S. patent pending
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Display Device with Dynamic Color Gamut. Download U.S. patent
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Display Circuit with Optical Sensor. Download U.S. patent
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Camera Flash with Reconfigurable Emission Spectrum. Download U.S. patent pending
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Displays with large dynamic range. Download U.S. patent pending
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System, Methods, Apparatuses, and Computer Program Products for Providing a Private Multiple Screen. Download U.S. patent pending
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Reflectors. Download U.S. patent pending
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Optical pulse shaping device and method. Download abstract in English and Japanese patent application
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Narrow band optical filter. Download abstract in English and Japanese patent application