This time it is the impossibly thin, flat glass used to make liquid crystal displays.
These electronic pages use less power than liquid crystal displays and also look more like printed paper.
The vast majority of TVs use liquid crystal displays, or LCDs, though a sizable minority use plasma technology.
Hon Hai needs new sources for liquid crystal displays to meet rising demand from Apple, Amazon and other customers.
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LCDs, or liquid crystal displays, are used in many of today's electronic devices, including smartphones, TV screens, computer monitors, laptops and tablet computers.
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Sony said it is beefing up its TV lineup, including models with 4K liquid crystal displays, which deliver even better image quality than current LCD TVs.
Stunning progress in liquid crystal displays, graphics processing and broadband are finally bringing 3-D displays into homes and offices--without the need for goofy red-and-blue tinted glasses.
The company designs, develops, manufactures systems and solutions used to inspect, test, and repair PCBs and FPDs, such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and touch screens.
Price drops in liquid crystal displays also helped, he said.
It would imply the technology for liquid crystal displays represents most of the value of the company, and the rest of the business, including light emitting diodes, has limited value.
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The most advanced weather radar on the market, for example, lets pilots page through screens showing ever-changing maps of what's ahead--rain, approaching thunderstorms, turbulence, wind-shear threats--all color-coded on flat liquid crystal displays.
The last century has seen only a few major display innovations, among them the move from black-and-white monitors to color and the introduction of flat, liquid crystal displays to replace cathode ray tubes.
As a leader in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and digital technologies, Sharp offers one of the broadest and most advanced lines of consumer electronics, information products and electronic components, while also creating new network businesses.
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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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From the development of the jet engine and liquid crystal displays, from cracking the inner workings of DNA to pioneering work on Lithium-ion batteries, the country has all too often managed to break new scientific ground but then fail to capitalise on the vast potential that others then enjoy.
It sells 100 of the 130 molecules used in making semiconductor chips and liquid-crystal displays.
Plastic Logic's first commercial application is likely to be as backplanes for liquid-crystal displays or electronic paper.
Sharp is facing a grim future of difficult choices, squeezed by a worsening cash crunch at the largest Japanese maker of liquid-crystal displays.
While gadget hounds delighted in the new iPad, materials-science geeks lamented the continuing dominance of power-hungry liquid-crystal displays that use heavy pieces of glass.
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That is because electronic paper does not need backlighting in the way that liquid-crystal displays do (see article) and making beads or capsules change colour does not take much energy.
Thanks to this new technology, called liquid-crystal-on-silicon, displays will become cheaper, thinner, brighter, and more portable, says Chris Chinnock, editor of Microdisplay Report.
The flat panel displays, which make kaleidoscopic colors when jabbed with a finger, contain liquid crystal sandwiched between layers of glass or plastic which becomes opaque with an electric current.
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