Also called "gas discharge display," a plasma display was an earlier flat-screen technology that used tiny cells lined with phosphor that were full of inert ionized gas (typically a mix of xenon ...
Plasma TVs were subject to image retention and burn-in, which are faint images that remain on screen due to static material displayed for long periods such as channel logos. Image retention was ...
which operated on cathode-ray tubes that caused the screen to flicker. Partnering with fellow Illinois professor Gene Slottow and graduate student Robert Willson, he helped invent the plasma ...