Lee Keun Joo, a senior analyst at Daewoo Securities, predicts a steady 21% rise in annual revenues until 1999, thanks to telecommunications and Hyundai's thin-film transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) operations.

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In his 50-year career, Ovshinsky received more than 400 patents in the U.S. and more than 800 foreign patents covering a range of technologies, including nickel-metal hydride batteries, rewritable CDs, DVD optical discs, flat-screen liquid crystal displays, hydrogen fuel cells, thin-film solar cells and others.

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Rather, it's a reflective display that uses a PNLC (Polymer Networked Liquid Crystal) module for improved brightness, and HR-TFT (high-reflective thin film transistor) technology to add contrast.

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