Overview:
The NIST Flat Panel Display Laboratory (FPDL) is operated through the Display Metrology Project (DMP) of the Source, Detectors, and Displays Group in the Optoelectronics Division of the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory of NIST. The purpose of this effort is to assist industry to define and develop good electronic display metrology. The publication below "Electronic Display Metrology-Not a Simple Matter" provides a detailed explanation of the role of display metrology and NIST in working with industry. Dissemination avenues include standards work, technical publications, seminars, this web site, and, ultimately, courses to be offered at NIST.
One of the major accomplishments of
the FPDL and the DMP
has been the development of the FPDM. The FPDM
is the Flat Panel Display Measurements Standard offered by the Video
Electronics Standards Association (VESA). The FPDM exists primarily
because of the
time that NIST invested in contributing to it, editing it, and
providing
some of the leadership to bring it into existence. The FPDM is a
display-metrology document that serves industry and other standards
organization in providing detailed measurement methods, diagnostics,
cautions, and tutorial information to assist those who need to worry
about measuring displays.
Publications:
Electronic
Display Metrology-Not a Simple Matter: (NIST-Centennial.pdf)
- This is an overview paper that describes why display metrology is so
important, why NIST is and should be involved, and why it can be so
difficult sometimes. Citation: E. F. Kelley,
"Electronic Display Metrology--Not a Simple Matter," NIST/SPIE
Centennial Symposium/Celebration on August 1, 2001, San Diego, Vol.
4450, pp. 44-53.
Notes:
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