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Flat panel TVs have existed since 1964, and are much thinner and lighter than televisions with picture tubes.
Flat panel displays encompass a growing number of electronic visual display technologies. They are far lighter and thinner than traditional television sets and video displays that use cathode ray tubes (CRTs), and are usually less than 10 centimetres (3.9 in) thick. (Some CRTs were designed to have a flat front surface, and equipment using them was advertised as "flat-screen", which can cause confusion.) Flat panel displays can be divided into two general display technology categories: volatile and static. The first engineering proposal for a flat screen TV was by General Electric as a result of its work on radar monitors. Their publication of their findings gave all the basics of future flat screen TVs and monitors. But GE did not continue with the R&D required and never built a working flat screen at that time.[1] The first-ever flat panel display was invented in 1964 at the University of Illinois.[2] The first-ever activematrix addressed display was made by T Peter Brody's Thin-Film Devices department at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1968.[3] In many applications, specifically modern portable devices such as laptops, mobile phones, digital cameras, camcorders, point-and-shoot cameras, andpocket video cameras, any display disadvantages are made up for by portability advantages.
Most of the modern flat-panel displays use LCD technologies. Most LCD screens are backlit to make them easier to read in bright environments. They are thin and light. They provide better linearity and higher resolution. As of 2012, 50% of global market share in flat panel display (FPD) production are solely dominated by Taiwanese manufacturers such as AU Optronicsand Chimei Innolux Corporation.
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1.1 Liquid crystal displays 1.2 Plasma panels 1.3 Electroluminescent panels
2 Volatile
of gas at the two electrodes to glow. The glow of gas segments is maintained by a lower voltage that is continuously applied to all electrodes. A similar pulsing arrangement is used to selectively turn points off.
Active-matrix liquid crystal display (AMLCD) Electronic paper: E Ink, Gyricon Electroluminescent display (ELD) Digital Light Processing (DLP) Field emission display (FED), also named nano-emissive display (NED) Interferometric modulator display (IMOD) Light-emitting diode display (LED) Liquid-crystal display (LCD) Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) Plasma display panel (PDP) Quantum dot display (QLED) Surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED, SED-TV)
Only a few of these displays are commercially available today, though OLED displays are beginning deployment only in small sizes, mainly in cellular telephones.
Bistable flat panel displays are beginning deployment in limited applications (Cholesteric displays, manufactured by Magink, in outdoor advertising; electrophoretic displays in e-book products from Sony and iRex; anlabels).
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