Thermal management of edge-lit wide color gamut backlight for LCD using red laser diodes and cyan LEDs

The color gamut is one of the critical parameters that dictate the image quality of displays. The liquid crystal displays using white color light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) as the backlight, though having been widely employed recently, are not very satisfactory in terms of their color gamut because of t...

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Published in:Journal of the Society for Information Display 2013-07, Vol.21 (7), p.295-304
Main Authors: Nagase, Akihiro, Niikura, Eiji, Shinozaki, Masaru, Nagayasu, Tetsuya, Kondo, Taiji, Ohashi, Gosuke
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
backlight
edge-lit
laser diode
LCD
LCDs
LED
Light emitting diodes
Liquid crystal displays
thermal management
wide color gamut
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Summary:The color gamut is one of the critical parameters that dictate the image quality of displays. The liquid crystal displays using white color light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) as the backlight, though having been widely employed recently, are not very satisfactory in terms of their color gamut because of the broad spectrum inherent to white LEDs. This prompted the authors to develop improved liquid crystal displays using an edge‐lit wide color gamut backlight that used red laser diodes and cyan LEDs. Generating laser beams with high color purity, the laser diodes are light sources with a significant effect on expanding the color gamut. However, laser diodes, red ones in particular, have unfavorable thermal characteristics. To cope with this shortcoming, the authors clearly defined the restrictive criteria for laying out two kinds of light source on the edge‐lit backlight and made a prototype 55‐type laser backlight for performance evaluation.
ISSN:1071-0922
1938-3657
DOI:10.1002/jsid.179