In view of Taiwan's limited resources, the institute decided to give top priority to using its accumulated technologies to provide services which would be useful to Taiwanese industry. Thus Cyril Chiang's career took a different turn, as he began researching applications for flat panel display and battery technologies.
最重要的考量在於台灣資源有限，勢必要優先將所累積的技術從事於對台灣產業「有用」的服務，蔣重光從此另闢蹊徑，開始了對平面顯示技術與電池技術的應用研究。