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Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays (AMLCDs) are expensive, have limited viewing angles, poor energy efficiency, and narrow operating temperature ranges. But there has been a huge investment in this technology and it presently dominates the flat panel display (FPD) market. Right now the market for FPDs is a few billion dollars per year. By 2000, that will be a few tens of billions. There are several alternative technologies that may garner a share of that fast-growing market.
At the Society for Information Display conference in San Diego this week, I've seen plasma display panels (PDP), thin film electroluminescent (TFEL) panels, field emission displays (FED), moving-mirror displays, and ferroelectric (non-volatile) LCDs.
I'd like to discuss those alternative technologies here. This forum may include technological details, FPD applications, niche markets, company details, or other subjects that will influence the development of FPDs in the market.
Naturally, we will have to compare to the companies like Sharp and Samsung, but I am not interested in the status quo, but rather the new technologies that will challenge the current status quo.
Once this conference is over, I will post a description of each of the major display types, and the companies that are committed to each of those types, along with my impressions of the displays that I saw here.
-bob mackey
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