Manufacturing cost of active-matrix liquid-crystal displays as a function of plant capacity

IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 562-572

  Jurichich, Steven ^b   Wood, Samuel C ^a,c   Saraswat, Krishna C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COSTS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANT MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SUBSTRATES;

ACTIVE MATRIX LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; PLANT CAPACITY;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 0030286760     PISSN: 08946507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/66.542171     Document Type: Article

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