Castellano Joseph A. Liquid Gold The Story of Liquid Crystal Displays and the Creation of an Industry

World Scientific Publishing Co. Re. Ltd, 2005. — 315 p.The development of LCD technology from simple laboratory samples to the more than 40-billion dollar industry that exists today.The Early Years.
Discovery.
The Gathering.
The Secret Years.
Going Public.
New Explorations.
The Search for New I’roducts.
Spreading the Word.
A New Breakthrough - The Twisted-Nematic Effect.
Conclusions and Opinions.
Enter the Japanese.
Risky Business: Spin-offs and New Ventures.
The Optel Story.
Other RCA Spin-offs.
Texas Instruments and Its Spin-offs.
Start-lJp Fever Moves to the Midwest.
Silicon Valley Iliscovers LCDs.
Conclusions and Opinions.
Silicon Valley Calls.
Fairchild Semiconductor Finds LCDs.
Another New Venture.
Moving in a Different Direction.
New Materials Emerge.
An Industry in Transition.
The Shift Toward Polymer Sealing.
The Digital Watch Industry Evolves.
IHong Kong Manufacturing Expands.
More American Companies Enter the Dusiness.
Exit the American Semiconductor Firms.
European Innovations.
Korea Begins Development.
Moving Behind the Iron Curtain.
View from the Sidelines.
The First Liquid Crystal Conference in Japan.
Moving to Market Research.
Growth of the LCI) Industry in the 1980s.
Competing Ilisplay Technology Scrutinized.
The Elusive Transistor.
A Thin Film of Transistors.
The Shift to Silicon.
Television Arrives.
I’ortable Color LCD Television Debuts.
The Shift to MIM Diodes for LCD I-’ortables.
The Ilrive toward Larger Screens Intensifies.
Hang-on-the-Wall LCD Television Approaches Reality.
The Personal Computer Revolution.
The I-’ortable PC Opens the Way for LCDs.
,aptop Computers I-’rolifcrate.
Enter the “SuperTwisted-Nematic” LCD and the Notebook.
Active Matrix LCDs Appear.
Coming of Age.
Computer Applications Abound.
Wdll-MOUntCd LCD Television Finally Realized.
The Cellular Telephone Explosion.
’l’he Age of Consortia.
Industry Consolidations.
Manufacturing Shifts to Southeast Asia.
Supplementary LCD Technologies Appear.
Competition from Other Flat Panel Technologies.
Plasma Display I’anels.
Organic Light Emitting Diodes.
Electroluminescent Displays.
Field Emission Displays.
Into the Future.
Creation and Growth of a New Industry.
The Impact of High-Definition Television.
The Growth of IX:D Television Manufacturing.
Probing the Future.
Epilogue.

Appendix A: Program of the First International.
Liquid Crystal Conference -August 1965.
Appendix B: A Chronology of LCD Developments.
Index.