Progress in Large Screen Plasma Display and New Approach for Extra-large Screen System with Plasma Tube Technology

A 42-inch plasma display was developed by Fujitsu Ltd. in 1995, which opened the door to the new world of large screen flat-panel displays, which had ever been built. For these ten years, plasma displays have won on the great successful story from both the business and technical points of view. The latest development enabled us to build a 100-inch plasma display, and some of the new technical approaches are going to achieve a new plasma display with a screen size of as large as over 200 inches. Especially, plasma tube arrays are to be noticed as the new technology that goes to achieve ultra-thin, light-weight, flexible displays, each having low power consumption. Prototype display of 0.5 times 1-m screen size was fabricated and its weight was measured at 0.6 kg