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Table of Contents

2 Editorial

The Next Big Thing

 - Kenneth I. Werner

4 A View from the Hill

There’s Something New and Different Here …

 - Aris Silzars

14 Toshiba’s Low-Temperature-Polysilicon TFT-LCDs

LTPS offers an impressive array of advantages for medium- and large-format TFT-LCDs – which are now available to OEMs in quantity.

 - Steven Vrablik

24 Integrating Commercial Flat-Panel Displays for Military Applications

A proven design procedure and a core set of inviolable value-adding enhancements enabled BAE SYSTEMS to successfully implement the military integration of a COTS AMLCD.

 - Anthony De Lorenzo, Richard Librandi, and Nathaniel Rothman

34 FED Life and Reliability

Candescent’s display life and reliability research has produced improvements in design and manufacturing – and values that are approaching those needed for mainstream consumer products.

 - George Hopple and Chris Curtin

44 SMAU ’99, Milan, Italy

Italian design, display products not seen outside Italy, and a full menu of international offerings makes Europe’s second-largest IT trade fair a unique event.

 - Bryan Norris

54 Sixth International Display Workshops

In the old castle town of Sendai in northern Japan, IDW attendees learned of an explosion in plastic-substrate development and imminent FED commercialization in Taiwan.

 - Ken Werner

66 Products on Display at SID 2000

Some of the products on display at SID’s largest exhibition ever are previewed.

 - The Editorial Staff

91 Calendar of Display-Related Events

100 Index to Advertisers

100 Sustaining Members