I worked at a company in the late 90s that was developing a thin flat panel "CRT" display. Crazy how long ago the CRT was invented.

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pansa2 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

SED display?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-conduction_electron-em...

	▲	uberduper 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Similar, but no. Our display used parallel wires that spanned the width of the display as cathodes. In front of that were positively charged "gating wires" that also spanned the width of the display. Then on glass, a laser etched conductive film made vertical strips which the phosphor was deposited making RGB anodes. Turn on the right cathode, gating wires, and RGB anodes to light a line of pixels.

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stickfigure 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Candescent? A friend of mine worked there. The technology looked amazing. I wonder what modern laptops would look like if they had made it to mass production.

	▲	uberduper 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Different company, Telegen Display Labs. LCDs were a thing (tho they were not great back then) and Plasma was the new hotness ( literally, they required external cooling units). The market for a thin, flat "CRT" like display was in extreme hot or cold environments, aviation, marine, stuff like that. I heard they actually built one, but I never saw it. I was gone as soon as my paycheck bounced. This place was actual crazy. All sorts of bizarre shenanigans.