OT: "flourescent" plastic screens...

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....anyone know whatever happened to that flourescant or glowing plastic,
that was discovered and demonstrated 10 or 20 years ago ?
There was an item on t.v. news detailing how a lab-technician carrying a UV
lamp was walking past some test tubes containing liquid plastic, noticed one
/ some of them glowed as he walked past. On the t.v. news item, in a
lab.somewhere, someone in a white coat was holding up a ribbon cable with a
small glass/plastic panel 2x2 inch? monochrome (in shades of greenscale...if
you see what I mean), with television motion / images running on it. It was
speculated that from this be developed into wonderful color flat panel
displays. without the complications of "traditional" Lcd's / tft's and
their complicated multi-layer construction etc. ...and the "refresh" rate
characteristics of this "flourescant plastic" was akin to a CRT. What
happened to it ?

regards, Richard
 
RJK said:
...anyone know whatever happened to that flourescant or glowing plastic,
that was discovered and demonstrated 10 or 20 years ago ?
There was an item on t.v. news detailing how a lab-technician carrying a UV
lamp was walking past some test tubes containing liquid plastic, noticed one
/ some of them glowed as he walked past. On the t.v. news item, in a
lab.somewhere, someone in a white coat was holding up a ribbon cable with a
small glass/plastic panel 2x2 inch? monochrome (in shades of greenscale...if
you see what I mean), with television motion / images running on it. It was
speculated that from this be developed into wonderful color flat panel
displays. without the complications of "traditional" Lcd's / tft's and
their complicated multi-layer construction etc. ...and the "refresh" rate
characteristics of this "flourescant plastic" was akin to a CRT. What
happened to it ?

regards, Richard
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Not sure but it sounds like you're talking about electroluminescent panels.

The problem for graphic displays and TV is in making the blue color but
these folks claim to have not only solved that but are in pilot production
of large screen display panels. http://www.ifire.com/
 
That's it ! ...thanx :-)

regards, Richard


David Maynard said:
Not sure but it sounds like you're talking about electroluminescent
panels.

The problem for graphic displays and TV is in making the blue color but
these folks claim to have not only solved that but are in pilot production
of large screen display panels. http://www.ifire.com/
Click to expand...
 
RJK said:
That's it ! ...thanx :-)
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There's also a lot of flat panel work being done with organic LEDs but
their life span isn't very good with the current state of the art. Last I
heard the comment was 'only good enough for cell phones', which is an
interesting comment on the expected life span of cell phones.
 
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