Active / Passive Control of Micro LED Performance Through Sidewall Gating

    公开(公告)号:US20220278255A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-01

    申请号:US17648101

    申请日:2022-01-14

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Display structures and methods of operation with micro light emitting diode (LED) sidewall gating are described. In an embodiment, a display structure includes a vertically oriented micro LED mounted on a display substrate, in which the micro LED includes a p-n diode with top and bottom electrode sides, and a sidewall gate electrode spanning a sidewall of the p-n diode where the active layer is included. In various embodiments, a bias may be applied to the sidewall gate electrode while driving the micro LED to deplete a minority carrier concentration from the sidewall of the p-n diode.

    Displays With Collimated Light Sources and Quantum Dots

    公开(公告)号:US20180292713A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-11

    申请号:US15693305

    申请日:2017-08-31

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A display may have display layers that form an array of pixels. The display layers may include a first layer that includes a light-blocking matrix and a second layer that overlaps the first layer. The first layer may include quantum dot elements formed in openings in the light-blocking matrix. The light-blocking matrix may be formed from a reflective material such as metal. The second layer may include color filter elements that overlap corresponding quantum dot elements in the first layer. Substrate layers may be used to support the first and second layers and to support thin-film transistor circuitry that is used in controlling light transmission through the array of pixels. The display layers may include a liquid crystal layer, polarizer layers, filter layers for reflecting red and green light and/or other light to enhance light recycling, and layers with angularly dependent transmission characteristics.

    Electronic device with stacked metasurface lenses

    公开(公告)号:US12153233B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-26

    申请号:US17465458

    申请日:2021-09-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Optical components such as components that emit light and components that detect light may be provided. Optical components that emit light may include displays having arrays of display pixels with respective light-emitting devices such as crystalline semiconductor light-emitting diodes. Optical components that detect light may include image sensors or other components with arrays of photodetectors. The light-emitting devices and photodetectors in the optical components may be overlapped by metalenses such as multielement metalenses. A multielement metalens may have a first metalens element formed from a first layer of nanostructures arranged and an overlapping second metalens element formed from a second layer of nanostructures. Light sources may be provided on a semiconductor and metalens nanostructures may be formed on an opposing surface of the semiconductor.

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