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Table of Contents
2 Editorial
The Third of July
- Ken Werner
4 The Display Continuum
Bump... Oh, Excuse Me. Thump... Whoops. Crash!...
- Aris Silzars
12 SID '97: Exciting Circus in a Big Tent
Through the lens of SID '97, the shape of the display world was changing once again - and "this kind of growth supports diversity."
16 CRTs, PEDs, and the Pieces Thereof
On the 1OOth anniversary of the CRT, medical monitors push the CRT envelope while Philips flattens it and Motorola prepares to burst out of the FED closet.
- Joe Hallet
20 Liquid-Crystal Displays There were so many LCD varieties at SID '97 that it's hard to view them all as part of a single technology.
26 Displays for Network Appliances
Flat-panel promotion resembles that for American cars of the late 1950s- "longer, lower, wider"- but a contrarian movement is pushing smaller and dense 1:
- Charles W McLaughlin
34 FPD Manufacturing Equipment and Materials A record number of equipment and materials vendors guessed that SID '97 would be a lively place to display their new wares. They were right.
- Ross Young
40 Emissive Displays
Forty-inch PDPs, EL displays, and FEDs proliferated, while the molecular glow of organics could be seen in the wings.
42 Calendar
5O Letters to the Editor
52 New Products
55 SID Honors and Awards 56 Sustaining Members
56 Index to Advertisers