Nanotube field effect displays hold great promise for large-screen TVs and large inexpensive flat panel displays. Their major competitive disadvantage is the continuing declines in the price of plasma and large LCD displays.
Here is an excerpt from an article about field effect TV screens / computer monitors:
Carbon TVs to edge out liquid crystal, plasma?
By Michael Kanellos, CNet News.com
You can find carbon in coal and tennis rackets, and a few years from now, it could run your TV.
Various companies are currently trying to perfect the technology behind a new type of flat-panel display that will rely on diamonds or carbon nanotubes--two forms of pure carbon--to produce images.
Theoretically, these "field effect displays," or FEDs, will consume less energy than plasma or liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs, deliver a better picture and even cost less. The development of FEDs underscores the rapid changes taking place in what had been a relatively staid TV market.
..."The concept of a nanotube TV will give you image quality similar to CRTs (cathode ray tubes), and the best image quality is still found on CRT TVs," said Tom Pitstick, vice president of marketing at Houston's Carbon Nanotechnologies. "All the major display manufacturers are looking at nanotube TVs."...
The difficulties in building economical field effect TV displays are great, but if successful the reward will be tremendous.
There have been recent articles about field-effect carbon TVs in Forbes and various other publications.
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