Plasma display
Pantalla de plasma
- Date
- 1964 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States
- Credited to
- Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow and Robert Willson (PLATO system); Fujitsu's first 42-inch plasma television (1997)
- People
- 👤 Donald L. Bitzer1934–2024👤 Robert Willson1912–2000
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A flat screen in which each pixel is a tiny gas-discharge lamp. It was the first large flat-screen television technology before being displaced by LCD.
What it led to
- The flat wall-mounted television and home cinema
- The flat-screen race between Japan and South Korea
- The end of the cathode-ray tube
Built on
Made possible
- flat-panel television
- digital signage