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Rocket Fuel Speeds Transistors

Posted by michael on from the firey-performance dept.

Mick Ohrberg writes "The rocket fuel hydrazine has been proven to increase the speed of thin-film transistors, which are used in LCD displays. It's also much cheaper to produce these transistors in a new "wet" manufacturing technique, based on creating the thin layers by using the centrifugal force caused by spinning the substrate. The result? Well, if the manufacturing cost plummets, maybe that 42" LCD monitor for my PC will be within (financial) reach soon."

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  1. Re:So... by Tailhook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    CRT won't die until...

    Define death. If LCD compromises performance (refresh, etc.) but not price, odds are the market will go 99% LCD and CRT will be rarified to specialty niches at very, very high cost. So while it will still be possible to get a CRT, you won't be able to afford it.

    LCD and plasma already attain sufficiant performance for the bulk of what the market wants. The only issue remaining is price. Those people who really need CRT (a small fraction of those that will think they do,) will just have to get funded.

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  2. Hydrazine? Tin Disulfide? by StateOfTheUnion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    . . . And if the LCD cracks, should I call a HAZMAT team to clean it up?

  3. Just for the record... by Zordak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Everyone can get their underpants in a know and call me pedantic, but this is one of my Physics pet peeves. The process cannot use "centrifugal force" to create thin layers of anything, because there is no such thing as "centrifugal force". A body in circuilar motion will have radial and tengential acceleration components. Since F=m a, you can only ascribe forces to your acceleration components. More likely, it is the tangential force that spreads the stuff into thin layers.

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    1. Re:Just for the record... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      It's a semantic use that is understood by most english speakers with a scientific background. Furthermore, nonscientifically minded english speakers can understand the meaning observationally. Therefore, it doesn't matter that they're wrong.

      Also, for the record, time does not actually fly as it is not a physical thing.

  4. Re:So... by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 3, Insightful
    when the quality of LCD's (color depth/range, "refresh rates" etc) matches CRTs.

    For text-based applications (which is most of what comptuers are used for), LCD give superior quality to CRTs. No flicker and sharper pixels. I'm never going back.

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