I hope we hear about it soonCetek and Motorola team up on nanotube-based displays
9 October 2002
US ceramics specialist Cetek Technologies has secured a licence with Motorola, US to produce and use carbon nanotube triode technology, which has applications in flat-panel displays.
"This joint agreement with Motorola should lead to an enormous rate of growth of carbon nanotube triode production in the coming years," said Fayiz Hilal, president of Cetek. "We expect to move very quickly with regard to production facilities to take full advantage of the massive worldwide market."
Cetek says that the combination of Motorola and Cetek's proprietary technologies has produced a high-quality, inexpensive flat-panel display. Motorola's carbon nanotube triodes apparently perform best on Cetek's specially developed ceramic substrate. Cetek spent five years working on a substrate that is flat and smooth, and that has a large surface area and specific mechanical and electrical characteristics.
According to Cetek the displays will have a viewing quality as good as conventional cathode-ray tube displays and better than that of active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). The company also claims that the displays will consume one-tenth of the power of AMLCD panels and cost a third as much to manufacture.
Motorola has made prototypes of the display at its facility in Phoenix, US. Cetek is looking for funding to establish a production facility in the US and is aiming to set up two more facilities in Asia through "affiliation, partnering and strategic alliance".
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