A method is described of forming a film of an amorphous material on a substrate by deposition from a plasma. When assembled, the display device conceals the non-adhesive pull tab but when the cover plate is separated from the back plate, the pull tab can be manually grasped by a user to stretch release the adhesive strip from the surface and the back plate. The dewatered web is applied to a translating transfer surface that is moving at a transfer surface speed.