2.2 Control\Display Panels

Control\display surfaces are composed of three basic layers. The outermost layer is fabricated from a 2.5mm tripolymer-coated transparent aluminum wafer into which is imbedded a sensor matrix. This matrix detects tactile input. Also incorporated into this layer is a transducer matrix that provides tactile and auditory feedback to the operator, indicating that a particular control surface address has been activated.

The aluminum surface wafer is chemically bonded onto a multiaxis holographic laser-guided crystal membrane, which serves as a high-resolution holographic display medium. Monocrystal microwaveguides at 1.8 mm intervals provide electroplasma system power transmission to the upper sensor matrix and transducer layers.

The substrate of the control surface is composed of microfoamed polyduranide sheeting, which provides structural integrity to the assembly. Incorporated into this layer is a matrix of optical microprocessors that permit the display to be self-configuring, once addressed and initialized by the local processor node. For redundancy's sake, the panel microprocessors include sufficient nonvolatile memory to permit system operation, even in the absence of main computer support.