Even more fundamentally, the digital economy's infrastructure has advanced basic material science and classes of machine tools that have led directly to the new high-power electronics (enabling hybrids) and to big, cheap flat-panel, thin-film PVs (derived from the massive thin-film machines that make flat-panel-TVs).
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Chin's division has won several design awards, including one for its Yepp MP3 player, its digital still camera and its flat-screen TFT-LCD (thin film transistor) monitor, which also acts as a TV.
This design, combined with flexible, thin-film batteries, could lead to a flat device that is far less obtrusive than a lumpy generator.
They coated the array with a thin film of gold and placed it above a flat, gold-coated sheet of glass.
Fujifilm also sought new outlets for its expertise in film: for example, making optical films for LCD flat-panel screens.
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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In LCDs silane gas breaks down into a film of silicon that forms the transistors that stimulate the pixels in the screen. (Flat-panel screens are essentially large semiconductor devices that sit on pieces of glass rather than on silicon wafers.) Another gas, nitrogen trifluoride, cleans the chambers in which both chips and LCDs are made.
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