What happened to nano emissive displays?
What happened to nano emissive displays?
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About a year ago, the nano emissive display got quite a bit of press.
In case you didn't hear, Motorola found a way to grow aligned nano-tubes on a substrate at relatively low temperatures. These tubes can be used as millions of tiny electron guns, firing at phosphers like a tube TV. The long and the short of it is they hoped to bring a flat panel plasma-like TV to the market for the cost of a tube TV. They said they may even be able to start in a year.
Well, that was a year ago, and while I didn't expect these things to be in production already, I'm very suprised that i haven't even HEARD anything about them for quite some time. Does anybody know what is up with these things?
In case you didn't hear, Motorola found a way to grow aligned nano-tubes on a substrate at relatively low temperatures. These tubes can be used as millions of tiny electron guns, firing at phosphers like a tube TV. The long and the short of it is they hoped to bring a flat panel plasma-like TV to the market for the cost of a tube TV. They said they may even be able to start in a year.
Well, that was a year ago, and while I didn't expect these things to be in production already, I'm very suprised that i haven't even HEARD anything about them for quite some time. Does anybody know what is up with these things?





RE: What happened to nano emissive displays?
RE: What happened to nano emissive displays?
Progress on Nano Emissive Displays is ongoing. In fact, in the original article I saw in in 2003 (in EETimes if I remember correctly...), they were quoting a screen of about 1" in thickness. Since then, they have described it in several articles I've read as a 1/2" thick screen. How's that for "sexy"?
One recent article I read was in BusinessWeek (June 2004) and it indicates that Samsung is the first company to license the technology and it should debut in 2006. So it's taking a bit longer than Motorola originally expected to get it to market, but how surprising is that? ;)
I know I've read about the technology in more recent articles, but this is the only one I have a link to:
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2004...
The paragraph about nano emissive displays is a bit more than 1/2 way down.
Dynastius
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Felix
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