Introduction to Flat Panel Displays

Introduction to Flat Panel Displays describes the fundamental physics and materials of major flat panel display technologies including LED, OLED, LCD, PDP and FED and carbon nano-tubes. A textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students, the book covers the basic sciences behind each display technology and gives solved problems and homework problems in each chapter to help consolidate their reading. Comparisons of the strengths and weaknesses of each of the display technologies will help display engineers to make decisions on which to use for their applications. Provides comprehensive coverage of flat panel display technologies, describing the fundamental physics and materials. An advanced text covering the fundamental physics and materials behind FPD technology, a technology that has many applications including mobile phones, TVs and computers. Part of the SID series in Information Display, Introduction to Flat Panel Displays is a logical approach to FPD technologies emphasizing the basic sciences of each display technology with chapters on light emitting diodes (LED), organic light emitting diodes (OLED), liquid crystal display (LCD), plasma display panel (PDP), field emission display (FED) and more.

Jiun-Haw Lee received BSEE, MSEE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1994, 1995 and 2000, respectively, all from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. From 2000 to 2003 he was with the RiTdisplay Corporation as the director. In 2003 he joined the faculty of National Taiwan University in the Graduate Institute of Photonics an Optoelectronics and the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he is currently an associate professor. His research interests include organic light-emitting devices, display technologies and solid-state lighting.

Dr Lee is a member of the IEEE, OSA, MRS and SPIE. He received the Exploration Research Award of Pan Wen Yuan Foundation and Lam research Award in both 2005 and 2006. He has published over 40 journal papers, 100 conference papers and 20 issued patents.

David N. Liu has been the director of the Strategic Planning Division in the Display Technology center (DTC) of the Industrial Technology research Institute (ITRI) since 2006. He worked on IC and field emission displays at ERSO (Electronics Research and Service Organization/ITRI and Bellcore (Bell Communication research) from 1983 to 1996. He started his research and development work on plasma display panels at Acer Peripheral Inc. and and AUO from 1996 to 2002. After his service at AUO, he was in charge of the flat panel display technology division in ERSO/ITRI until 2006.

Dr Liu received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1992. He has over 45 issued patents, 18 published papers and a contributed chapter of the Semiconductor Manufacturing Handbook (McGraw-Hill, 2005). He also successfully developed field emission displays, plasma display panels and flat panel displays followed by the receipt of many awards from ITRI, Photonics Industry and technology Development Association, Administration Bureau of Science base Industry Park and the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). He was also a recipient of the Outstanding Project Leader Award from MOEA in 2006.

Shin-Tson Wu is a PREP professor at the College of Optics and Photonics, University of central Florida (UCF). Prior to joining UCF in 2001, Dr Wu worked at Hughes Research Laboratories (Malibu, California) for 18 years. He received his PhD in physics from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and BS in physics from National Taiwan University (Taipei).

Prof. Wu has co-authored four books: Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices (Wiley, 2006), Introduction to Microdisplays (Wiley, 2006), Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays (Wiley, 2001) and Optics and nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals (World Scientific, 1993), six book chapters, over 300 journal publications and 75 issued and pending patents.Prof. Wu is a fellow of the IEEE, OSA, SID and SPIE. He is a recipient of the SPIE G.G. Stokes award, SID Jan Rajchman Prize, SID Special Recognition Award, SID Distinguished Paper Award, Hughes team achievement award, Hughes Research laboratories outstanding paper award, UCF Distinguished Researcher Award and UCF Research Incentive Award. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display technology.

Series Editor's Foreword
About the authors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Flat Panel displays
Emissive and non-emissive displays
Display specifications
Applications of flat panel displays
References
Color Science and Engineering
Introduction
The Eye
Colorimetry
Produce and re-produce colors
References
Thin Film Transistors
Introduction
Basic concepts of crystallized semiconductor materials
Disorder semiconductor
TFT characteristics
PM and AM driving schemes
Non-Si based TFTs
References
Liquid Crystal Displays
Introduction
Transmissive TFT LCDs
Liquid Crystal Materials
Liquid Crystal Alignment
Homogeneous Cell
Twisted Nematic (TN)
In-Plane Switching (IPS)
Fringe Field Switching (FFS)
Alignment (VA)
Optically Compensated Bend (OCB) Cell
Transflective LCDs
Future Directions
References
Plasma Display Panels
Introduction
Physics of gas discharge
PDP panels
Front plate techniques
Rear plate techniques
Assembly and aging techniques
System techniques
References
Light-emitting Diodes
Introduction
Material systems
Diode characteristics
Light-emitting characteristics
Device fabrication
Applications
References
Organic Light-emitting Devices
Introduction
Energy states in organic materials
Photophysical process
Carrier injection, transport and recombination
Structure, fabrication and characterization
Improvement of internal quantum efficiency
Improvement of extraction efficiency
References
Field Emission Displays
Introduction
Physics of field emission
FED structure and display mechanism
Emitter
Panel process
Field emission array (FEA) plate techniques
Phosphor plate techniques
Assembly and aging techniques
System techniques
References
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