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Table of Contents
2 Editorial
If it's Tuesday, This Must Be EID ...
- Ken Werner
4 The Display Continuum
And Then Things Got Really Complicated ...
- Aris Silzars
6 European Views
Even the European Commission Can't Feed Two Cultures from One Bowl
- Bengt Stebler
6 Conference Calendar
12 SID '98: Large and Lively
A record number of exhibitors happily showed and sold their wares to a record number of attendees in Anaheim.
14 Microdisplays Grow Up
The diagonals may be small, but optimism and pixel count are high among the folks who produce big images from very small displays
- Charles McLaughlin
18 LCDs Galore at SID '98
LCD innovation seemed to be accelerating at SID '98 - with no slowdown in sight.
- Chris Chinnock
22 The Old Dog Still Barks
The glamour may be in flat panels, but CRT makers were busy and busy is good!
- Joe Hallett
26 Big, Bright, and Beautiful
Emissive displays come in many types and sizes, but at SID '98 it was the new generation of large plasma displays that made jaws drop.
- Alan Sobel
30 Manufacturing Equipement
Low-temp poly was one mantra at SID '98. Greater throughput,
reduced usage of materials, and large-substrate capability were others.
- Stephen Atwood and Ken Werner
34 Display Technology Showcase
How do we know which display technology is best for a particular application? Four thousand SID attendees went to the DTS to find out.
38 Display Viewability
There is still no agreement on what combination of measurable characteristics makes a display "viewable" - but it is agreed that the combination is not the same for all technologies.
- Stephen Atwood