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Table of Contents

2 Editorial

There Are Rivers

 - Kenneth I. Werner

4 A View from the Hilltop

Wishful Thinking ...

 - Aris Silzars

16 Outgrowing San Jose

Falling prices, new display-centric appliances, and newly commercializable display technologies may double the global display market to $85 billion by 2005—and one can see it happening at SID 2001 in San Jose.

 - Ken Werner

20 FPD Technology in Korea

Korea now leads the world in TFT-LCD manufacturing and is investing aggressively in a variety of FPD technologies.

 - Myunghwan Oh

24 Poly-Si TFTs for Plastic Substrates

Poly-Si is likely to be the first TFT technology applied to high-resolution displays on plastic substrates, and there is now a process that permits high-quality TFT fabrication on plastic.

 - Tsu-Jae King

28 Eating Rice in Kobe

IDW drew well over 1100 display professionals to devour generous portions of the “second rice of industry” in Kobe’s Portopia.

 - Ken Werner

50 Letters

50 Calendar of Display-Related Events

52 Sustaining Members