Why can’t we fix broken TV screens without fully replacing the panel?
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As others have said, the pixels aren’t as much installed as they are “grown” in place on the glass substrate.
The process is very similar to photo printing, with masks, projectors, etc being used to imprint the images of each layer onto a photosensitive coating before being “developed”, also in a similar fashion. A disproportionate amount of our tech is made with this method in some form – chips, circuit boards, displays all use photolithography, rendering most electronics nothing more than a composite artwork with some melted metal bits holding the printings all together.
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