Flat Panel Display Glass: Current Status And Future

Since the appearance of the Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display (AM-LCD) in 1995, flat panel display has been the fast growing industry during two decades [1]. Now LCD became the most dominant display technology world-wide. The flat panel display glass also has walked together along with the LCD industry. Great difficulties for manufacturing the flat panel display glass have given high entry barriers for the leading 3 companies: Corning, Asahi and NEG. These 3 companies occupy about 95% share of the flat panel display glass market [2]. However, these days, new players struggle to take significant part in the market. In this paper the detailed technological difficulties are analyzed.