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| Mann, Charles
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Contributing Writer, Technology Review
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| Nanotech on Display
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Technology Review (MIT)
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107.9 (2004):60-67.
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| In 2004 Samsung took the lead in creating a screen using carbon nanotubes. Samsung's research into "field emission displays" is cautious but innovative, aligned (the company hopes) with its general goals to move from a low-cost electronics maker to a higher-end electronics producer. Field emission displays are energy efficient, unlike plasma screens, and quick to show images, unlike LCDs. Still in its development stages, Samsung's current displays have a mix of partnership agreements and technological challenges behind them already. These challenges overcome, the economics remain. How to produce a better product for less? Other display technologies are keeping pace, dropping prices and making advances. So field emission displays have a tough set of challengers waiting for them. |
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