LCD screens come in passive and active technologies, which are explained in this definition. For details about how liquid crystals work, see LCD subpixels for color screens and seven-segment display ...

A display technology that is used for graphics-based screens (a matrix of rows and columns). Using one transistor for each row and one for each column, passive matrix screens are addressed one row at ...

Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are a type of electronic display used in everything from televisions and computer monitors to digital watches and PDAs. An LCD is made up of two sheets of polarizing ...

Active-matrix displays are good but expensive. Passive-matrix displays are cheap but don't perform nearly as well. New LCDs with active addressing are staking out an attractive middle ground. If all ...