Field Emission Displays continue to attract interest, this time in Taiwan. Dr. CC Lee, deputy director of flat-panel development at ERSO/ITRI, gives a frank assessment of the problems associated with their manufacture in Taipeis DigiTimes.
The problem remaining to be solved, and this has been going on for ten years now, is how to maintain a vacuum in a small thin envelope full of energetic electrons which are constantly knocking molecules off the internal surfaces. Any post processing to remove residual gas increases the manufacturing cost, the last thing you need when process of PDP and large LCD panels are in freefall.