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Offers a look at the manufacturing of emissive flat panel displays (FPD) that will challenge liquid crystal displays (LCD) for both new and established applications. FPD applications and technologies; Different FPD designs; Novel enabling processes; Manufacturing standards.

Focuses on the development of flat panel displays in a variety of technologies. Factors to be considered in forecasting market opportunity for liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors; Details on the product evolution; Differences between digital and analog interfaces.

Focuses on the development of the National Technology Roadmap for Flat Panel Displays by the United States Display Consortium. Consumer applications; Users, manufacturers and suppliers; Military applications; Display technologies.

Discusses the utilization of low temperature polysilicon (LTPS) technology in producing flat panel displays (FPD). Description of the LTPS technology; Process requirements; Limitations; Comparison with traditional FPD production technologies; Impact on liquid crystal display manufacturers.

Focuses on contamination control in flat panel display fabrication. System elements to be considered; Experiences in semiconductor fabrication; Substrate-isolation technology; Defect and contamination limits; Status of standards; Physical-interface issues.

Focuses on transformer coupled plasma etching for flat panel display (FPD) manufacturing. Process description; Electrical tests; Issues in etching for FPDs; Source design and scaling; Technology and hardware development; Substrate temperature control; Hardware platform development; Silicon nitride etching; Device results.

Surveys current understanding of thin-film coating with specific attention to the technological challenges posed by flat-panel-display manufacturing. Patent literature; Multifaceted thin-film coating process; Dip coating; Spin coating.

The article explains the flexible display systems face a significant challenge in combating the dominance of glass-based liquid crystal displays. Flexible display manufacturers are hoping for a killer application that will propel the technology into large scale production. Potential markets are books, magazines and newspapers. Other possible candidates are signage, labeling and smart card devices with integrated displays.

The list of existing multinational corporations manufacturing products with microelectronic content in China is very impressive. For example, cell-phone manufacturer Nokia Corp. has seven factories there, including one of the world's largest cell-phone factories in Beijing. Electronics manufacturer Flextronics has three sites in China - Beijing, Xixiang, and Shanghai. GM and Ford are both building cars in China, and Philips Display Systems has manufacturing operations in Shanghai, China. China now regards semiconductor manufacturing as the enabling pillar industry to make it competitive in the global business world. It looks to the semiconductor industry to bring in valuable foreign investment and technology.

Focuses on the impact of major flat panel technologies on the cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitor markets. Plasma display panels; Electroluminescent displays; Field emission displays; Trends in the sales of flat panels versus CRT monitors.

Focuses on the use of larger substrates in the production of large liquid crystal flat panel displays (FPDs). Manufacturing capacity for active matrix displays; Predominance of super-twisted nematic displays in the portable computer market; Substantial productivity gain due to increased substrate size. INSET: FPD equipment market: Flat in 1996, growth resumes in '97..

Focuses on flat information displays technology. Features; Applications; Worldwide market; Overcapacity issues; Market potential of flat panels; Financial aspects; Supply and demand forecast for graphic liquid crystal displays; Equipment development.

Focuses on diamond-based field emission flat panel display technology. Features; Comparison with active matrix liquid crystal displays; Amorphic diamond fabrication; Applications; Designs.

The article provides information on economic aspects related to the primary automotive display systems including its market value. Topics discussed include report entitled "Automotive Display Systems Forecasts" from IHS Markit Ltd.; views of Brian Rhodes, automotive technology analyst for IHS Markit on the same; and potentiality of display panels.

The article discusses the manufacturing strategies, application and technology of flat-panel displays (FPD). The thin-film liquid-crystal display is a very specific technology that comprises an electronic backplane and an electro-optical frontplane. This technology combination results in an application, which is a transmissive electronic display. Worldwide FPD revenue is expected to increase in 2006.

Focuses on the Society for Information Display conference in 1998. Information on the Display Technology Showcase, one of the highlights of the show; Details on the flat panel display (FPD) technologies; Assessment of the United States Department of Defense on the environmental aspect of the commercial FPD units.

Focuses on the growing market for flat panel displays. Growth of liquid crystal displays; Impact of electroluminescent and plasma technologies.

Focuses on the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor's Center for Display Technology and Manufacturing's (DTM) third year of providing services to the flat-panel display industry. Background information on DTM; Access to other development groups; Thrust research and development areas; Information on the center's incubator project.

The article discusses the significance and emergence of flexible display system. It explains that robustness and novel form factors are provided by flexible displays which use colored charged particles that respond to an applied voltage. It notes that the vibrant color and bendable displays are folded, rolled, or even crumpled by organic light-emitting diode (OLED) flexible displays which remain very much a work in progress and enabled applications such as laptop computers and digital cameras.

The article focuses on the Gordon Moore's law which predicts virtuous cycle of integrated circuits (ICs) and the application of liquid-crystal display to photovoltaics in the U.S. According to the law, the number of transistors on a chip can be doubled every 12-18 months, causing lower prices for ICS. Details on the significant role of LCD in the success of businesses in the country are discussed.

Presents schedule of conferences related to the semiconductor industry compiled as of June 2004. Large Screen Displays Conference in San Diego, California; IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics Test Structures in Leuven, Belgium.

Reports on the paper presentation at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society suggesting that designers of flexible displays made from polymer organic light-emitting diodes can boost the efficiency of the systems beyond what most researchers had expected. Statistics showing that based on electronic spin theory only 25 percent of the energy put into displays will produce light.

Reports on the forecasted sales of Japanese flat panel display (FPD) producers in fiscal 1998. Data on the 1997 FPD production; Factors behind the forecasted increase in sales; Budgetary cuts by some FPD companies.

Reports that information display system prices are expected to decrease in 1998.

Reports that flat panel display (FPD) manufacturers in Japan have lowered their sales estimates due to lower than expected sales of FPDs. Slowdown in sale of personal computers; Companies that anticipate the lowest sales.

Presents several products of interest to the semiconductor industry. Information on flat panel displays in Japan; Availability of the book `Electronic Display Measurement: Concepts, Techniques, and Instrumentation,' by Peter A. Keller.

Introduces CyberDisplay, a high resolution AMLCD for use in information display systems, developed by Kopin Corp. Features; Capabilities; Compatibilities; Applications.

Highlights a report by the United States Display Consortium discussing trends in the flat panel display industry (FPD). Projected sales of military and avionics FPD in 2005; Estimated world market for FPD in 1996; Product categories where flat panels could make a difference; Applications of photonics plasma displays.

Reports on sales and investments by Japanese flat panel display companies in 1995. Includes Sharp; Toshiba; NEC; Hoshiden; Projected sales and investments in 1996.

Reports on the introduction of desktop flat panel display (FPD) monitors by NEC Technologies and RDI Computer Corp. NEC's MultiSync LCD200 and LCD300 monitors; RDI's PowerScreen; Applications of monitors.

Discusses the decrease in price of the flat-panel displays produced in September 1995 according to the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry statistics. What is responsible for decrease in price; Revelation of 248-nm stepper for volume DRAM production by Nikon.

Reports on a new study stating that flat-panel technology is gaining market share in the electronic display market.