Overview of flat information displays

This lecture provides an introduction to flat panel display technologies and gives their status in development. The main flat panel technologies which found PC application, presented in the lecture, are the emissive display technologies of plasma, and electroluminescence, and the non-emissive technologies of passive liquid-crystal and active liquid-crystal. A status of the development achievements, trends, and prospects for each of the technologies is presented. The various technologies are described as to their fundamental electro-optic effect, unique addressing attributes, extendibility limitations, and relative ultimate costs.