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Table of Contents
2 EditorialDisplay Education in the U.S.? - Ken Werner
4 The Display ContinuumThe Great Inversion of 2029 … - Aris Silzars
14 Whither LCOS?Liquid-crystal-on-silicon displays have a very bright future – but there are several types, and each type is best suited to particular applications. - Alan Mosley and Lewis Banks
22 High-Quality Optics for MicrodisplaysThe new generation of liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplays produces beautiful images, but designing optics that increase the virtual size of the display while maintaining image quality is not easy. - Alfred P. Hildebrand
30 Thin-Film Micromirror ArrayDaewoo uses piezoelectrics to give reflective-mirror microdisplays a new twist – and provide TI’s DMD with its first direct competition. - Sang-Gook Kim and Kyu-Ho Hwang
38 Varitronix: An Engineer’s Fairy TaleThis is the story of an engineer and a physicist who built a substantial LCD company that seems nearly immune to the industry’s boom-and-bust cycle – and it’s true. - C. C. Chang and Ken Werner
46 Space, the Final Color FrontierDiscussion at CIC-6 returned to a basic question: How is perceived color affected by the spatial context and by parameters such as display resolution? - Michael H. Brill
58 Products on Display at SID ’99For 3 days, May 18–20, leading manufacturers will present the latest displays, display components, and display systems. To preview the show, we invited the exhibitors to highlight their offerings. - The Editorial Staff
84 SID News85 Letters92 Calendar of Display-Related Events98 Index to Advertisers98 Sustaining Members