1996 Electronics Industry Environmental Roadmap - Civil and ...

Appendix A
OIDA Specific technical priorities by display type:
CRT: multi-beam electron guns for higher resolution; alternative color
selection technologies; higher efficiency phosphors, better deflection
yokes, including new yoke materials and lightweight glass.
PMLCDs: lower viscosity liquid crystals; thinner cells; plastic
substrates for lower cost and larger sizes; lower cost polarizers and
color filters; and improved retardation films.
AMLCDs: low temperature polysilicon process for thin film
transistors; simplified amorphous silicon TFT process with fewer mask
steps; and scale-up of the manufacturing process to larger substrate
sizes.
Electroluminescence: development of a blue phosphor with high
luminous efficiency that does not require high temperature deposition
and thus does not require expensive high temperature substrates;
reduced IC costs; and higher density interconnect technology.
Plasma: new materials for barriers and phosphors that would provide
an increase in the luminous efficiency by a factor of ten and would
have longer lives; low cost IC drivers; longer-lived secondary electron
emitters.
FEDs: cathode plates, either microtip or structureless thin film;
efficient low voltage phosphors; spacers; vacuum assembly techniques.
Light emitting diodes: high efficiency blue and green emitters;
development of alternatives to SiC blue such as ZnSe and GaN.
Holographic: high resolution, high speed liquid crystal light valves;
high brightness, electroluminescent arrays; precision electronically
steerable light sources, spatial light modulators based on LCDs; solid
state red, green, and blue lasers.
Projection: high liquid crystal light valves; efficient solid state red,
green, and blue lasers, high density, low cost integrated drivers.
Optical Technologies, Photonics, RF
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