24 May
2016
24 May
'16
12:39 p.m.
On 05/24/2016 12:18 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
EL (Electro-luminescent) is another technology that
more-directly
excites the phosphor with an AC supply. No vacuum bottle or hot
filament. Nowhere near as prevalent as VF.
You still see them in military/aerospace applications. Planar used to be
industry leader in those, but it was acquired a couple of years ago by a
Finnish outfit, Beneq.
The business unit is called Lumineq:
http://lumineq.com/
Thin-film EL displays are pretty cool. They're transparent. Like all
modern EL displays, they're pre-patterned with display elements.
--Chuck