Carbon nanotube field effect displays (and carbon nanotube TV) hold great promise for computers and large-screen TVs (marketed as Carbon TV or Diamond TV). They save energy over plasma or liquid crystal displays, deliver a better picture (equivalent to CRT) and may cost less.
Here is an excerpt from an article:
Carbon TVs to edge out liquid crystal, plasma?
By Michael Kanellos, CNet News.com
You can find carbon in coal and tennis rackets, and a few years from now, it could run your TV.
Various companies are currently trying to perfect the technology behind a new type of flat-panel display that will rely on diamonds or carbon nanotubes--two forms of pure carbon--to produce images.
Theoretically, these "field effect displays," or FEDs, will consume less energy than plasma or liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs, deliver a better picture and even cost less. The development of FEDs underscores the rapid changes taking place in what had been a relatively staid TV market.
..."The concept of a nanotube TV will give you image quality similar to CRTs (cathode ray tubes), and the best image quality is still found on CRT TVs," said Tom Pitstick, vice president of marketing at Houston's Carbon Nanotechnologies. "All the major display manufacturers are looking at nanotube TVs."...
The difficulties in building economical field effect displays are great, but if successful the reward will be tremendous.
There have been recent articles about field-effect carbon TVs in Forbes (January 6, 2005).
The March 2, 2005, issue of the Christian Science Monitor had an article about flat-panel televisions (Thin and Glamorous, Flat Panels Are the Supermodels of TV Land), which included this mention of field effect displays:
...Then there are the temptations to wait for future tech: On the way shortly or under development are new flat-panel technologies like liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS), surface- conduction electron-emitter display (SED), and field effect display (FED) that may produce even sharper thin-TV pictures at even lower costs....
One factor working against carbon nanotube displays (field effect displays) is the continuing drop in prices of competing technologies, including LCD and plasma displays.
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