Where would we be without the cathode-ray tube? It is cheap to make, it dominates today's display technology and it can be found behind the screen of almost all modern desktop computers. For decades this descendant of the 19th-century vacuum tube faced no serious competition. But as the computer industry has developed from desktop to laptop computers, it has looked for more portable, lightweight and energy-efficient displays. One solution is the flat-panel display. The market for these displays has grown exponentially over the past 10 years, and they now have all sorts of applications in the avionics, automotive and home-entertainment industries. This remarkable growth will continue, and the flat-panel-display market, worth $11 billion in 1995, is expected to double by the turn of the millennium.
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