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It's not surprising they had problems with a large screen. Large multilayered sandwiches of different materials have thermal expansion problems. Not everything will expand at the same rate, which means internal stresses as temperature cycles. Large size means the difference in length across the longest dimension will be much larger than for a small device. This breaks bonds and seals.

Solar panels have the same problem, and they have "expansion joints" to deal with it.[1] Hard to do that for one seamless screen.

[1] https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/modules-and-arrays/therm...




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