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WO1997037271A1
WO1997037271A1 PCT/GB1997/000878 GB9700878W WO9737271A1 WO 1997037271 A1 WO1997037271 A1 WO 1997037271A1 GB 9700878 W GB9700878 W GB 9700878W WO 9737271 A1 WO9737271 A1 WO 9737271A1
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William Alden Crossland
Anthony Bernard Davey
Vincent Glenn Geake
Ian David Springle
Lee Stephen Cash
Paul Andrew Bayley
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Screen Technology Limited
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02F—OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS
    • G02F1/00—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics
    • G02F1/01—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour 
    • G02F1/13—Devices or arrangements for the control of the intensity, colour, phase, polarisation or direction of light arriving from an independent light source, e.g. switching, gating or modulating; Non-linear optics for the control of the intensity, phase, polarisation or colour  based on liquid crystals, e.g. single liquid crystal display cells
    • G02F1/133—Constructional arrangements; Operation of liquid crystal cells; Circuit arrangements
    • G02F1/1333—Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methods
    • G02F1/1335—Structural association of cells with optical devices, e.g. polarisers or reflectors
    • G02F1/1336—Illuminating devices
    • G02F1/133617—Illumination with ultraviolet light; Luminescent elements or materials associated to the cell

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  • Advantages of using input or excitation light which activates phosphors are that viewing-angle characteristics are improved because the light seen by the viewer of the display is not subject to the viewing-angle problems common to LCDs in which the light passing through the liquid-crystal modulator is seen by the viewer; and that the excitation light can be monochromatic, thus avoiding chromaticity problems in the liquid crystal, while still producing a colour display.
  • UV for instance 365 nm, is the natural choice for the excitation light since it can be used to excite phosphors ranging over the entire visible spectrum.
  • a light-modulating device comprising: a light source producing activating light, a light-modulating layer for modulating the light from the source, and an output means responsive to the activating light that passes through the modulator; in which the light source emits light at wavelengths substantially in the range 380-420 nm.
  • a colour liquid-crystal display comprising: a light source producing activating light, a light- modulating layer for modulating the light from the source, and an output means comprising RGB phosphors responsive to the activating light that passes through the modulator; in which the light source emits light at visible wavelengths.
  • a light-modulating device comprising: a light source producing activating light, a light- modulating layer for modulating the light from the source, and an output means responsive to the activating light that passes through the modulator; in which the light source emits light at visible wavelengths and the output means is substantially monochromatic.
  • WO 97/07426 (Anthony M. Cupolo) , published on 27 February 1997, also discloses a liquid crystal display arrangement with phosphors as emitter elements.
  • the output means in the invention- can be active (emissive) or passive (absorptive) .
  • secondary emitters can be used, in particular phosphors or similar elements which will usually emit at a longer wavelength than the activating light; as a result the input activating light is preferably in the violet or blue region, in particular 380-420 nm, in order to give a reasonably wide range of possible output wavelengths.
  • the input activating light is preferably in the violet or blue region, in particular 380-420 nm, in order to give a reasonably wide range of possible output wavelengths.
  • the lower limit for the input wavelength depends on the available materials: a limit of 380 nm might be considered appropriate in view of the current availability of short-pitch LCs, though this is not universally visible.
  • Phosphors exist which can be excited by visible light; for example, the band gap of inorganic phosphors such as ZnS, doped for instance with copper, can be reduced by the addition of materials of smaller band gap such as CdS; this increases the minimum wavelength which causes light emission.
  • CdS materials of smaller band gap
  • 80-100 nm is a typical wavelength difference between excitation and maximum emission for such phosphors; hence it is possible to create displays with colours corresponding to wavelengths above 510 nm from a 430 nm LED - this would result in greens and reds or indeed any non- blue colour.
  • Figs. 1 to 5 show excitation and emission spectra for various phosphors on which trials have been conducted for the present invention
  • Fig. 6 shows schematically a colour LCD in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 schematically shows an arrangement using the invention, though in appearance it may be identical to known UV-type displays such as discussed in
  • Liquid-crystal cells are formed at the intersections of orthogonal electrode strips 3, 5 either side of a layer 1 of a liquid crystal.
  • the liquid crystal is held between two glass plates 7, S, on the upper of which output means in the form of phosphors 11 are arrayed in correspondence to the LC cells.
  • output means in the form of phosphors 11 are arrayed in correspondence to the LC cells.
  • Activating light 20 which is preferably at least partly collimated, is input to the cells which when a given cell is activated by applying a voltage is passed but when it is not activated is blocked. Activating light traversing the cell reaches the corresponding phosphor 11 which then emits at its predetermined wavelength or wavelengths.
  • the activating light is monochromatic or at least of a narrow band of wavelengths, namely blue or violet having a wavelength of around 400nm.
  • a wavelength of 385nm is preferred, which can be produced by a suitably filtered mercury discharge lamp (actually 388nm) , or a tuned laser, for instance.
  • the output phosphor emits at say 560nm for a green display, or for a coloured display one of several wavelengths above about 450nm.
  • the collimated light can be produced, for example, by one or more fluorescent tubes whose output can be directed by mirrors, gratings or lenses, or by an array of blue LEDs and a corresponding microlens array.
  • Figs. 1-3 show spectra for standard RGB phosphors as available, for instance, from Phosphor Technology Ltd., namely P22 Red (Y 2 0 2 S:Eu 3 *) , Green (ZnS:Cu,Al,Au) and Blue (ZnS:Ag) phosphors (standard CRT visible phosphors) .
  • P22 Red Y 2 0 2 S:Eu 3 *
  • Green ZnS:Cu,Al,Au
  • Blue (ZnS:Ag) phosphors standard CRT visible phosphors
  • Pll ZnS:Ag also a Phosphor Technology product
  • the phosphor will tend to block the blue light itself, but it is not necessary to ensure this. If the phosphor itself scatters some of the blue, or an additional scattering element is included, then the missing blue wavelengths can be complemented, for instance by placing a suitable filter after the phosphors. In an RGB display it might be possible, for instance, to use red and green phosphors which completely absorbed the blue light but blue phosphors at the relatively long wavelength of 480nm which also let through some blue light directly in scattered form. In any event the leakage of visible light from such a display poses no health problems, real or imagined, unlike ultraviolet-activated displays.
  • a total-internal-reflection (TIR) system can be used.
  • TIR total-internal-reflection
  • Such systems have the excitation light input from the side into a transparent but totally internally reflecting plate adjacent to a liquid-crystal layer.
  • This liquid crystal can be of the scattering type, in which case when the liquid crystal is clear, light is contained within the TIR plane and when the liquid crystal is switched to scattering mode at a pixel light can escape from the TIR plane and activates a phosphor.
  • EP-A-185495 S. Canter
  • the TIR plane can be used simply as a planar source of light by having a scattering surface on the back which scatters light forwards towards the LC display.
  • the output means can be within the liquid-crystal cell, rather than outside it; a rather speculative arrangement of this type is shown in US-A-4830469 (US Philips Corp.)

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Abstract

Un affichage à cristaux liquides comprend une source de lumière produisant une lumière activatrice (20), une couche modulatrice de la lumière telle qu'une couche de cristaux liquides (1) pour moduler la lumière de la source, et un moyen émetteur par exemple du type fluorescent (11), capable de réagir à la lumière activatrice qui traverse le modulateur. Pour diminuer les détériorations susceptibles d'être causées par la lumière UV à la texture des affichages de conception plus ancienne et pour élargir les possibilités d'utilisation des matériaux optiques et des composants disponibles, la source de lumière de la présente invention émet dans le visible. On décrit des produits fluorescents adaptés.
PCT/GB1997/000878 1996-03-29 1997-03-27 Excitation d'affichages emissifs WO1997037271A1 (fr)

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WO2000017700A1 (fr) * 1998-09-21 2000-03-30 Screen Technology Limited Montage optique pour ecrans plats
EP1239321A3 (fr) * 2001-03-06 2004-07-07 Noel Stephens Illumination fluorescente d'un écran

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EP0522910A1 (fr) * 1991-07-09 1993-01-13 Thomson-Csf Système de visualisation couleurs
JPH087614A (ja) * 1994-06-17 1996-01-12 Nichia Chem Ind Ltd 面状光源
GB2291734A (en) * 1994-07-26 1996-01-31 Samsung Display Devices Co Ltd Backlight for display

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JPS62194228A (ja) * 1986-02-20 1987-08-26 Matsushita Electric Ind Co Ltd 発光型表示装置
EP0522910A1 (fr) * 1991-07-09 1993-01-13 Thomson-Csf Système de visualisation couleurs
JPH087614A (ja) * 1994-06-17 1996-01-12 Nichia Chem Ind Ltd 面状光源
GB2291734A (en) * 1994-07-26 1996-01-31 Samsung Display Devices Co Ltd Backlight for display

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WO2000017700A1 (fr) * 1998-09-21 2000-03-30 Screen Technology Limited Montage optique pour ecrans plats
EP1239321A3 (fr) * 2001-03-06 2004-07-07 Noel Stephens Illumination fluorescente d'un écran

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