flat-panel display

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Flat-panel displays are thin, flat video screens that have largely replaced bulky cathode-ray tubes in televisions and computer monitors. These displays, advanced versions of liquid crystal displays, use two parallel glass sheets coated with a transparent conducting film. The space between the films is filled with an electro-optical fluid that changes its light-transmitting properties when an electrical field is applied, consuming very little power.

These displays are patterned with tiny picture elements that can be individually activated to create images. Color images are formed using superposed color filters. Flat-panel displays are essential for devices like laptop computers due to their thinness. While they are becoming more affordable and larger, manufacturing defects have been a significant challenge in reducing costs. A video display terminal (VDT) is an abbreviation for a video display terminal.12

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electronics
Flat-panel displays
Display devices convey information in visible form from electronic devices to human viewers. Common examples are the faces on digital watches, numerical indicators on stereo equipment, and the picture tubes in television sets and computer monitors. Until recently the most versatile of these…
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Display devices convey information in visible form from electronic devices to human viewers. Common examples are the faces on digital watches, numerical indicators on stereo equipment, and the picture tubes in television sets and computer monitors. Until recently the most versatile of these…
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information processing
Video
… (CRT) and the more recent flat-panel display. In CRT displays an electron gun emits beams of electrons on a phosphorus-coated surface; the beams are deflected, forming visible patterns representative of data. Flat-panel displays use one of four different media for visual representation of data: liquid crystal, light-emitting diodes, plasma panels,…
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… (CRT) and the more recent flat-panel display. In CRT displays an electron gun emits beams of electrons on a phosphorus-coated surface; the beams are deflected, forming visible patterns representative of data. Flat-panel displays use one of four different media for visual representation of data: liquid crystal, light-emitting diodes, plasma panels,…
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radar
Displays
…been, however, considerable improvements in flat-panel displays because of the demands of computers and television. Flat-panel displays occupy less volume and require less power than CRTs, but they also have their limitations. Radar has taken advantage of flat-panel displays and has become increasingly important as a display.
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…been, however, considerable improvements in flat-panel displays because of the demands of computers and television. Flat-panel displays occupy less volume and require less power than CRTs, but they also have their limitations. Radar has taken advantage of flat-panel displays and has become increasingly important as a display.
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Amorphous semiconductors in electronics
…also is used in high-resolution flat-panel displays for computer monitors and for television screens. In such applications the large-area amorphous-semiconductor thin film is etched into an array of many tiny units, each of which forms the active element of a transistor that electronically turns on or off a small pixel…
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…also is used in high-resolution flat-panel displays for computer monitors and for television screens. In such applications the large-area amorphous-semiconductor thin film is etched into an array of many tiny units, each of which forms the active element of a transistor that electronically turns on or off a small pixel…
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