FE Technologies, a Sony spinoff, demonstrated its 19″ nano-Spindt FED (Field Emission Display) running Gran Turismo 5 on the PlayStation 3 at 240Hz. The nano-Spindt screen has more than 10,000 electron sources that are called the nano-spindt emitter. That’s 10,000 nano-Spindt emitters per pixel. To produce light a fluorescent substance is exposed to electrons. FED [...]

Sony is aggressively researching field emission displays (FED) according to Nikkei. Why is Sony going after FED rather than OLED? There are some tough challenges to scale OLED to large sizes. Currently the largest OLED device that is commercially available is Sony’s XEL-1 OLED TV that has a 11″ display. That’s very small. Sony has [...]

Samsung demonstrated an LCD TV panel that used field emission technology to power the backlight, simply called field emission backlight (FEB). By using FEB, Samsung was able to improve the contrast ratio to 300,000:1. This is a major development. The FEB has an array of pixels that can be turned on or off depending on [...]

SED, which stands for surface-conduction electron-emitter display, is the result of a joint venture between Canon and Toshiba. While Toshiba has already manufactured demo units and has showcased them to many CES goers in 2006, that will not be the case due to some legal issues that Canon is sorting out. Canon is working with [...]