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DJcreamz
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Motorola has unveiled a new screen that uses nanotechnology to create a display on par with CRT and LCD. The company has no plans to manufacture the displays, but is looking for partners that want to license the technology.
The screen uses carbon nanotubes, which are hollow columns of carbon atoms discovered through research into field emission displays. The new screen, called a nano-emissive display (NED), uses a mesh of carbon nanotubes to fire electrons at a screen coated in phosphor particles. That approach is different from CRT screens, which fire the electrons in a beam that travels back and forth across the phosphor-coated screen.
The test screen Motorola created is 4.7-inches diagonally, with a resolution of 128x96 pixels and a depth of just 3.3 millimeters. This single small screen can be combined with others to make up a high-resolution, widescreen, 42-inch display that is 1280x720 pixels diagonally.
Motorola believes that NED is superior to existing screen technology for a number of reasons. As well as being visible in daylight at wide angles, NED screens are as responsive as CRT displays and are cheaper to produce than LCDs (one market research firm estimated that a "40-inch NED panel could be under $400"). The reduced costs are due to the displays being simpler to create, with fewer steps in the production process. They also should last longer than current displays. Motorola also stated that existing LCD plants could be upgraded to produce NEDs by replacing half the equipment used; plasma display production plants could also be upgraded by replacing just a quarter of the existing equipment.
If manufacturers license the NED technology, displays could hit the market within two years.
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005May/gee20050510030388.htm
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Rocky B.
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On 2005-05-11 13:30:28, DJcreamz wrote:
combined with others to make up a high-resolution, widescreen, 42-inch display that is 1280x720 pixels
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Sounds cool, nice if it was cheap, but the resolution doesn't sound so great. 19" CRT screens can do 1280*720 quite easily.
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Posted: 2005-05-11 13:30
