[TechAssist] Re: 40" Flat Screen for under $400.00
- From: "Damon" <damoneb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:29:55 -0500
Here ya go.....see below. Man, these people sell out their technology as
soon as it hits print....Is is any wonder the US has no manufacturing jobs?
Damon B
Telrad Electronics
Fort Wayne IN
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From: "J Silverman" <greentron@xxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:21 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: 40" Flat Screen for under $400.00
> Checked again. Same result!
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Big screens a growth industry for Motorola
Moto, Moto, how does your garden grow?
The Schaumburg tech company is planting carbon nanotube seeds on glass and
growing TV screens that it promises will shatter the prices now being paid
for big-screen TVs.
Motorola today will announce it is ready to begin marketing a new technology
to "grow" large-screen TVs using atom-sized carbon nano tubes as seeds with
the potential to produce superior images at a fraction of the price of
today's big screens.
And here's some news sports fans will welcome: A Motorola spokesman said the
images are so sharp that even fast-moving objects, such as hockey pucks and
baseballs, are visible without blurring or disappearing.
"With over 15 years experience and 160 patents in carbon nanotube technology
and flat panel displays, we have developed a technology that could enable
the next generation of large-size flat-panel displays to deliver an
extraordinary visual experience at a fraction of current prices," said Jim
O'Connor, vice president of Motorola technology incubation and
commercialization.
He said a 40-inch screen will cost less than $400. This compares with
40-inch liquid-crystal plasma screens costing $2,500 and up today.
The company has produced a first-of-its kind, 5-inch-wide prototype that is
less than an inch thick for use as a high-definition screen. O'Connor said
the process could easily be scaled up to a 42-inch display for a TV or
computer display.
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WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY?
It's the science and technology of building anything from single atoms and
molecules.
Manufactured products are made from atoms, and the properties of those
products depend on how those atoms are arranged.
If engineers rearrange the atoms in coal, they can make diamonds. If the
rearrange the atoms in sand (and add a few other trace elements), they can
make computer chips.
If they rearrange the atoms in dirt, water and air, they can make potatoes.
In the future, we'll be able to snap together the fundamental building
blocks of nature easily and inexpensively. This will be essential if we are
to continue the revolution in computer hardware beyond about the next
decade, and will also let us fabricate an entire new generation of products
that are cleaner, stronger, lighter and more precise.
Contributing: Ralph Merkle, Georgia Tech University
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Motorola can grow a carbon nanotube in less than two minutes. In a
manufacturing environment it will take one to five minutes. A carbon
nanotube is 10,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair.
Motorola is shopping the technology to other manufacturers, and O'Connor
predicted carbon nanotube TVs will be on the market within two years.
Motorola itself pulled out of TV manufacturing in the 1970s, and ceased
making flat-panel displays for computers in the 1990s. However, O'Connor
said the company continued its research program in laboratories here and in
Phoenix.
Barry Young, vice president of DisplaySearch, a flat panel display market
research and consulting company in Texas, said carbon nanotubes make
superior TV images because they "are near perfect conductors, and can emit
electrons efficiently when sufficient current is passed."
He said Samsung, SDI and ITRI have all built carbon nanotube prototypes, but
have had quality problems. They slather a carbon nanotube paste on glass, a
process compared to putting peanut butter on bread. But not all the carbon
tubes line up in the same direction using that slapdash technique.
Young said Moto's breakthrough involves a catalyst that can be placed on
glass. The result is uniform and accurate positioning of the nanotubes. He
said if one nanotube fails, another is there as a backup. "Motorola has also
figured out a way to ensure that a very high percentage of the electrons hit
the proper phosphor dot."
He noted that the approach still has to be demonstrated in mass production.
O'Connor said the nano-emissive technology using cathode ray display in a
flat-screen format produces images with better brightness, contrast, color
and viewing angle than plasma or LCDs.
The technology has other potential applications, such as large screens for
sports stadiums and billboard advertising, as well as use in devices to
detect and eradicate infectious microbes, and also in fuel and solar cells,
ultra-small transistors and memory chips.
"The technology is ready to deliver now," said O'Connor.
Motorola will be presenting its prototype May 22 at the Society for
Information Display International Symposium in Boston.
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