At the CEATEC show in Japan, Shinoda Plasma Corp. displayed the prototype of a 1-millimeter thick plasma-based screen. The screen uses an array of plasma “tubes” aligned between film electrodes, allowing the display to be super slim plus giving the display a degree of flexibility so that it can actually be bent. A plasma tube is a glass tube 1 mm in diameter that seals discharge gas and RGB fluorescent materials, etc., inside itself. The pixel pitch is 3 mm because the RGB plasma tubes are lined sideways. A 100 x 50 cm display equivalent to a 43-inch panel was unveiled at the showing. It has a pixel pitch of 3 mm. It’s not so apparent from the photo but the image on the big screen shows the flexibility of the screen material up close. The plasma tube technology is designed to “seamlessly stitch together” small unit pieces to construct larger displays. Hence a multiple 1-meter square base unit could be combined into a larger 1 x 2 or 2 x 3-meter display without retooling.

As of now, this technology is in a nascent stage it could take almost 5-10 years to see the commercial production of such thin TVs. Just to compare, Sony XEL-1 is a 3mm LCD and Sharp’s BYO-BU 52 inch LCD TV is just 2cms thick.
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