Display

The manufacturing process for thin film transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs), commonly used in notebook computers, desktop monitors and televisions is similar to that employed for integrated circuits for semiconductors.

Since 1993 Applied Materials has been a leader in providing equipment and technology to the flat panel display industry for manufacturing TFT-LCDs. As a result, nearly every display in use today was made using Applied Materials’ equipment.

As displays become more ubiquitous, Applied Materials is exploring emerging display technologies, such as touch panel, flexible substrate and OLED , that will drive the future of the screen.

Thin Film Transistor

Applied Materials has brought economies of scale to the flat panel display. The equipment we build uses scale to help make flat panel TVs more than 20 percent larger per year without an increase in price. Applied Materials achieves this goal by developing the most innovative technologies in the industry and helping our customers minimize costs, such as material use and defects.

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Emerging Display

For the past 17 years, Applied Materials equipment has made display technology thinner, bigger and brighter, while decreasing or keeping constant costs. Technologies Applied Materials is building today will bring to life a future we once imagined was science fiction – paper-thin electronic screens, lighting that lasts for decades and billboard size screens that use only one piece of glass.

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2012 Investor & Analyst Meeting
"The Advanced Display Era: Opportunities and Growth in New Display Technologies"