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Liquid Crystal Display

Liquid crystal displays use liquid crystals that can exist in an intermediate state between liquid and solid. They are affected by electric current in a way that allows varying levels of light to pass through. LCDs work by sandwiching nematic liquid crystals between two polarized glass filters. One filter is coated with the crystals while the other is oriented at a 90 degree angle. Active-matrix LCDs use thin film transistors to individually control each pixel, allowing for faster response times and more precise control compared to passive-matrix LCDs. Color LCDs use red, green, and blue sub-pixels to represent the full color spectrum.

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Liquid Crystal Display

Liquid crystal displays use liquid crystals that can exist in an intermediate state between liquid and solid. They are affected by electric current in a way that allows varying levels of light to pass through. LCDs work by sandwiching nematic liquid crystals between two polarized glass filters. One filter is coated with the crystals while the other is oriented at a 90 degree angle. Active-matrix LCDs use thin film transistors to individually control each pixel, allowing for faster response times and more precise control compared to passive-matrix LCDs. Color LCDs use red, green, and blue sub-pixels to represent the full color spectrum.

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LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY

What is liquid crystal?

substances that can exist in an odd


state that is sort of like a liquid and
sort of like a solid
Nematic Phase Liquid
Crystals
§There is also a variety of liquid crystal substances.
Depending on the temperature and particular nature
of a substance
§Liquid crystals affected by electric current
§Twisted nematics (TN), is naturally twisted
§Electric current to these liquid crystals will untwist
them to varying degrees, depending on the current's
voltage.
§LCDs use these liquid crystals because they react
Creating an
LCD
Two pieces of polarized glass.

Coating of nematic liquid crystals to one of the filters.

Second piece of glass with the polarizing film at a right angle to


the first piece.

90-degree angle to the bottom.


Passive and Active
Matrix
Passive-matrix LCDs use a simple grid to supply the charge to a particular
pixel on the display
Two glass layers called substrates
One substrate is given as Column and another as row, these made up of
transparent material
indium tin oxide
Liquid crystal material is sandwiched between the two glass substrates,
and a polarizing film is added to the outer side of substrate.

Charge to column and ground to row.

Drawbacks

slow response time and


imprecise voltage control.
Active-matrix LCDs depend on thin film transistors (TFT).

TFTs are tiny switching transistors and capacitors arranged in a matrix


on a glass substrate. to address a particular pixel.

Proper row is switched ON and charge is sent to particular column.

rest of transistors are turned OFF

Capacitor can hold charge up to another refresh cycle

COLOUR LCD
Three sub pixels with red, green and blue color filters to create each
color pixel.

16.8 million color can produce from 3 sub pixels.

For 1024 x 768 resolution screen 1024 x 768 x 3 (sub pixels )


=2,359,296 transistors
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Sam suresh

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