Tue 14 Nov 2006
In an interesting use of carbon nanotube technology (as found in SED TV), Samsung labs is looking at ways to help improve LCD TV performance and lower backlighting costs. Full story at Cnet below:
“The prototype essentially represents the marriage of two separate avenues of TV technology and could help dramatically lower the cost of LCD TVs in the future. Samsung has already been experimenting with carbon nanotube TVs called field-emitter displays, or FEDs.
In such TVs, thousands of nanotubes shoot electrons onto a phosphorescent screen to illuminate images. Carbon nanotubes are hollow molecules of intricately arranged carbon atoms that that have remarkable properties. They conduct electricity better than metal, are stronger than steel and can emit light.
These nanotube TVs are actually similar in concept to traditional CRT (cathode-ray tube) TVs, and advocates claim that they will provide better resolution and picture quality than LCD TVs or plasma TVs. Toshiba and Canon will release a similar nanotube set known as SED TV late next year. (SED stands for surface-conduction electron-emitter display.)”
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