Abstract:
A display apparatus includes a display module which displays an image and a backlight unit disposed below the display module. The backlight unit includes a light source which generates light, a light guide member including a light incident surface which receives the light from the light source and an opposite surface facing the light incident surface in a first direction, and a light collection member which is disposed on the light guide member and receives the light from the light guide member to control a traveling direction of the light so that the light travels to the display module. The light collection member includes an upper light collection layer including upper light collection patterns, each of which has a curved top surface and a lower light collection layer including lower light collection patterns and an intermediate layer which covers the lower light collection patterns.
Abstract:
A display device may include a first substrate, a first color conversion unit, a second color conversion unit, a light diffusion unit, and a first wall. The first color conversion unit is located on the first substrate. The second color conversion unit is disposed on the first substrate and is spaced from the first color conversion unit. The light diffusion unit is disposed between the first color conversion unit and the second color conversion unit. The first wall is disposed between the first color conversion unit and the light diffusion unit. The first color conversion unit includes a first-color conversion layer. The first-color conversion layer overlaps two pixel regions.
Abstract:
A color filter substrate includes: a first substrate including a first sub-pixel region corresponding to a non-white color region and a second sub-pixel region corresponding to a white color region and adjacent to the first sub-pixel region; a light-blocking pattern disposed on the first substrate, the light-blocking pattern including a first opening corresponding to the first sub-pixel region and a second opening corresponding to the second sub-pixel region; a first color filter having a first color and disposed in the first sub-pixel region; and a transparent layer disposed in the second sub-pixel region and on the first color filter. The light-blocking pattern further includes a disconnected portion between the first sub-pixel region and the second sub-pixel region, and the first and second openings are coupled to each other via the disconnected portion.
Abstract:
A manufacturing method of a backlight unit includes: providing a light emission surface of a light guide plate to include contact areas and a cavity area between contact areas; forming first sacrifice patterns at the cavity area to have a same width as each other; forming a first insulation layer on the first sacrifice patterns and extended to contact the light emission surface at the contact areas; removing the first sacrifice patterns to form a cavity between the light emission surface and the first insulation layer, at the cavity area; and with the cavity at the cavity area, forming a second insulation layer at the cavity area and at the contact areas. The contact areas are arranged spaced apart from each other in the first direction, and a number of the first sacrifice patterns at the cavity area decreases as a distance in the first direction increases.
Abstract:
A display device includes a substrate on which a pixel area and a non-pixel area around the pixel area are defined, an encapsulation layer disposed on the substrate, a light conversion layer including a light converter disposed on the encapsulation layer to overlap the pixel area, and a light guide layer disposed between the encapsulation layer and the light conversion layer to define a first cavity that overlaps the pixel area and a second cavity that overlaps the non-pixel area.
Abstract:
A display apparatus includes a display panel and an optical member disposed on the display panel. The optical member includes a base substrate on which a plurality of first areas including a plurality of first sub-areas and a plurality of second sub-areas surrounding the first sub-areas, respectively, and a second area around each of the first areas are defined, and a first insulating layer disposed on the base substrate, where the first insulating layer includes an inclined portion disposed in the second sub-areas and forming an angle with a top surface of the base substrate.
Abstract:
A display device includes a display module, a light source, a light-guiding substrate including at least a side surface adjacent to the light source, and an optical filter provided on the light-guiding substrate. The optical filter includes a first insulating layer including a first sub-insulating layer, a second sub-insulating layer, and a third sub-insulating layer, a second insulating layer provided on the first insulating layer to be in contact with the second sub-insulating layer, and a first liquid crystal layer which selectively transmits or reflects light provided from the light-guiding substrate. The first liquid crystal layer is disposed in each of first cavities which are defined as closed spaces enclosed by the first sub-insulating layer, the third sub-insulating layer, and the second insulating layer.
Abstract:
A backlight unit includes a light source; a light guide plate; and an optical member on the light guide plate. The optical member includes first insulating patterns into which light from the light guide plate is incident to the optical member; a first insulating layer which covers the first insulating patterns; second insulating patterns into which light from the first insulating layer is incident; and a second insulating layer which covers the second insulating patterns. The light guide plate includes a light incident side surface, pairs of insulating patterns each include one first insulating pattern and one second insulating pattern, and in a top plan view, for each pair of insulating patterns, the first insulating pattern is closer to the light incident side surface than the second insulating pattern.
Abstract:
A backlight unit includes a light source which generates light; a light guide plate which guides the light from the light source and emits guided light through an upper thereof; and an optical member disposed on the upper surface of the light guide plate. The optical member includes: a plurality of first insulating patterns into which the guided light from the upper surface of the light guide plate is incident; and a second insulating layer which covers the first insulating patterns to define an upper surface of the optical member through which light exits toward a display panel. Each of the first insulating patterns includes: a bottom portion extended from the upper surface of the light guide plate; and a sidewall portion upwardly extending from a boundary of the bottom portion, the sidewall portion inclined at an angle relative to the upper surface of the light guide plate.
Abstract:
A display device includes a light source which generates light, a light guide member which guides the light, and a light collecting member disposed on the light guide member to collect the light provided from the light guide member. The light collecting member includes a plurality of central areas, a plurality of ring areas respectively surrounding the plurality of central areas, and a peripheral area surrounding the plurality of ring areas.