Display device

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A display device is an output device for presentation of information in visual^[1] or tactile form (the latter used for example in tactile electronic displays for blind people).^[2] When the input information that is supplied has an electrical signal the display is called an electronic display.

Common applications for electronic visual displays are television sets or computer monitors.

These are the technologies used to create the various displays in use today.

• Liquid-crystal display (LCD)
  • Light-emitting diode (LED) backlit LCD
  • Thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD
  • Quantum dot (QLED) display
• Light-emitting diode (LED) display
  • OLED display
  • AMOLED display
  • Super AMOLED display

Some displays can show only digits or alphanumeric characters. They are called segment displays, because they are composed of several segments that switch on and off to give appearance of desired glyph. The segments are usually single LEDs or liquid crystals. They are mostly used in digital watches and pocket calculators. Common types are seven-segment displays which are used for numerals only, and alphanumeric fourteen-segment displays and sixteen-segment displays which can display numerals and Roman alphabet letters.

• Vacuum fluorescent display
• Electroluminescent (ELD) display
• Plasma (PDP) display
• Laser-powered phosphor display

Cathode-ray tubes were also formerly widely used.

2-dimensional displays that cover a full area (usually a rectangle) are also called video displays, since it is the main modality of presenting video.

Full-area 2-dimensional displays are used in, for example:

• Television set
• Computer monitors
• Head-mounted displays, Heads-up displays and Virtual reality headsets
• Broadcast reference monitor
• Medical monitors
• Mobile displays (for mobile devices)
• Smartphone displays (for smartphones)
• Video walls

Underlying technologies for full-area 2-dimensional displays include:

• Cathode-ray tube display (CRT)
• Light-emitting diode display (LED)
• Electroluminescent display (ELD)
• Electronic paper, E Ink
• Plasma display panel (PDP)
• Liquid-crystal display (LCD)
  • High-performance addressing display (HPA)
  • Thin-film transistor display (TFT)
• Organic light-emitting diode display (OLED)
• Digital Light Processing display (DLP)
• Surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) (experimental)
• Field-emission display (FED) (experimental)
• Laser TV (forthcoming)
• Carbon nanotubes (experimental)
• Quantum dot display (QLED)
• Interferometric modulator display (IMOD)
• Digital microshutter display (DMS)
• microLED (in development)

The multiplexed display technique is used to drive most display devices.

• Swept-volume display
• Laser display
• Holographic display
• Light field displays

• Ticker tape (historical)
• Split-flap display (or simply flap display)
• Flip-disc display (or flip-dot display)
• Vane display
• Rollsign
• Tactile electronic displays are usually intended for the blind. They use electro-mechanical parts to dynamically update a tactile image (usually of text) so that the image may be felt by the fingers.
  • Optacon, using metal rods instead of light in order to convey images to blind people by tactile sensation.

• Comparison of CRT, LCD, plasma, and OLED displays
• Graphical user interfaces
• History of display technology
• User interface
• Input device
• Text display

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Display devices.

• Society for Information Display - An international professional organization dedicated to the study of display technology
• University of Waterloo Stratford Campus - A university that offers students the opportunity to display their work on the school's 3-storey Christie MicroTile wall.