LCD technology, short for Liquid Crystal Display, was originally produced by RCA in 1968 to manufacture watches and pocket calculators. The technology was simple at first; utilizing outside light sources to create images. Through the later years, LCD became more advanced and much brighter than its predecessors.

Television and computer screens that use the LCD technology contain a liquid substance called “liquid crystals” in between panes of glass. Theses crystals are bipolar molecules that can be controlled by electric fields. The electric fields manipulate the molecules in a way that can filter and block light to create pixels of tiny electrodes made of a transparent conductor. But instead of using an outside light source, these monitors use their own florescent lights to brighten the images.

This technology has enabled television manufacturers to create very thin displays which use little amounts of energy. However, LCD technology is not without flaws; it is unsuccessful in the creation of large displays and contains large gaps in between pixels which make it difficult to view at different angles.