Abstract:
A polarizer includes a base substrate and a metal pattern disposed on the base substrate and forming a wire grid. The wire grid has a width and a height and spaced apart from adjacent wire grid by a separation distance. A pitch is a sum of the width and the separation distance. A fill factor is obtained by dividing the width by the pitch. The range of the fill factor is based on an extinction ratio of polarization and a transmittance of the polarizer.
Abstract:
A display device includes a light providing assembly to provide light, and a display panel to display an image using the light. The display panel includes a first substrate (FS), a second substrate (SS), a liquid crystal layer (LCL), a polarizing plate (PP), a first optical element (FOE), and a second optical element (SOE). The FS includes a pixel region (PR) and a non-PR (NPR) adjacent to the PR. The SS faces the FS. The LCL is disposed between the FS and SS. The PP is disposed between the FS and LCL, and includes grid polarizing layers. The FOE is disposed between the FS and PP, and is configured to redirect a fraction of the light propagating toward the NPR in a first direction. The SOE is disposed between the FOE and PP, and is configured to redirect the fraction of light propagating in the first direction toward the PR.
Abstract:
A reflective polarizing plate is monolithically integrated on a surface of a base layer of a display device. The polarizing plate comprises a polarizing area portion and a reflective/blocking area portion, both having a multi-layered structure. The polarizing area portion is patterned to have a plurality of spaced apart reflective wire grid strips. The reflective/blocking area portion is configured to reflect all light incident thereon from a predetermined direction (where that light would not otherwise be used) and to direct the reflected light back to a light providing source where the light can be recycled for other use. Therefore, a brightness and efficiency of the display device is improved.
Abstract:
A homogenous thin film layer is patterned into a transparent conductive portion and a non-conductive portion without use of etching through the thin film. Instead, conductive fine-wires which are convertible in one embodiment into non-conductive fine-wires are selectively converted into the non-conductive form. In an alternate embodiment, the homogenous thin film layer which includes conductive fine-wires is provided in a curable liquid form and selected portions of the liquid formed are cured into being affixed to substrate. Remaining portions can be washed away. In the case of display devices using transparent electrodes, a thin thin-film transistor array substrate is provided where the initially homogenous thin film which is and then converted into patterned conductive and non-conductive sections forms the pixel-electrodes and/or common electrode of the display device.