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NIST Flat Panel Display Laboratory

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Flat Panel Display Laboratory

Display Metrology Project of the Sources, Detectors, and Displays Group in the Optoelectronics Division of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory of NIST, part of the United States Department of Commerce*
 

FEATURED
Display Metrology Short Course

Learn how to make display measurements hands-on and understand display-measurement problems.
ENHANCED
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Mission: To work with industry to develop electronic display measurements, measurement methods, and measurement standards.
LIGHT SOURCES
DMATS & GAS
LIGHT DETECTORS
SEMINARS & COURSES
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
SED CAMERA
OVERVIEW 
MEDICAL DISPLAYS
STANDARDS WORK
DISPLAY METROLOGY
SHORT COURSE

E-mail:
fpd@nist.gov   or   fpdl@nist.gov
Contacts:    Paul A. Boynton, 301-975-3014 paul.boynton@nist.gov (Project Leader)
Edward F. Kelley, 303-497-4599  kelley@nist.gov
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* Optoelectronis Division, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. This is a contribution of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and is not subject to copyright. In other words, all the material on our web site is in the public domain. You are free to use it as you would like. If you do use any of it, a citation would be appreciated, of course. Contact us if you need any of the original source material if it is not available here -- that would include any text, diagrams, or images that you might need in your work. Enjoy.

Note: Updated 20070904T0946
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