The history of liquid-crystal display and its industry

Author

Kawamoto, Hiroaki

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Liquid-crystal display (LCD) was invented in 1964 at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. In 1970, twisted-nematic (TN) mode of operation was discovered, which gave LCD the first commercial success. The LCD manufacturers supplied small-size displays to portable products such as digital watches and pocket calculators. In 1988, Sharp Corporation demonstrated a 14-in. active-matrix full-color full-motion display using a TFT (thin-film-transistor) array. Observing this, Japan launched a true LCD industry. Large-size displays were first supplied to personal computers and then to television receivers. In the second half of 1990s, the industry has moved to Korea and Taiwan.

Keywords

electronics industry; history; liquid crystal displays; television receivers; thin film transistors; RCA Laboratories; TFT; active-matrix full-color full-motion display; digital watches; industry; liquid-crystal display; pocket calculators; small-size displays; television receivers; thin-film-transistor array; twisted-nematic mode; Active Matrix; Fluorinated Liquid-Crystals; Heilmeier; Helfrich; IPS; Sharp; TN Mode;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON), 2012 Third IEEE

Conference_Location

Pavia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3079-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-3077-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487587

Filename

6487587