A thin, often lightweight video display used in computer monitors and televisions as an alternative to the cathode-ray tube. Flat-panel displays often employ liquid crystals or electroluminescent materials such as light-emitting diodes.
Also called flat screen
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About 40% of sales from its lithography machines business, which combines semiconductor lithography and flat panel display lithography equipment, is generated in China.
From Reuters ● Mar. 31, 2023
"We don't make any more cathode ray tube-based products and every product we make has a flat panel display."
From The Verge ● Nov. 13, 2014
If you want to see something really crazy, it’s like the flat-panel display you and I are looking at each other on right now.
From The Verge ● Aug. 31, 2021
“A flat-panel display is not a small thing, with today’s TVs; it’s certainly not inexpensive to ship,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2017
The team produced a clamshell computer with an orange electroluminescent flat-panel display that was introduced as the Compass.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2016
You can buy a PC with a flat-panel display and a built-in DVD burner for around $1,800, the same as the equivalent iMac.
From Time Magazine Archive
But falling prices for both flat-panel display screens and computer chips that require little energy have made lap-size computers affordable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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