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Understanding TFT-LCD technology
Thin-film transistor (TFT) technology refers to a type of liquid crystal display (LCD),
also known as an active-matrix LCD (AMLCD), used in all HP LCD monitors as well
as HP iPAQ devices and HP notebook displays. To understand how pixel defects
occur, it helps to understand the technology behind this type of LCD.
How LCDs work
A liquid crystal is exactly what it sounds like: a fluid substance which also exhibits
some properties—such as an ordered arrangement of its molecules—similar to a
solid crystal. In 1963, an RCA researcher discovered that liquid crystals can be
used to control light, by switching a voltage across the material on and off. Before
long, the technology was being applied to everything from calculators to computer
monitors.
Because of their long, rod-like shape and electrical properties, liquid crystal
molecules tend to line up in parallel rows in their natural state. When used in
computer displays, this material is enclosed between two pieces of glass (in a flat
panel display) and an image is generated by controlling the alignment of the LC
molecules electrically, causing them to effectively act as “light valves”—letting light
either pass through the panel or be blocked, depending on the voltage applied
across the material. Color filters are placed on one side of the glass panels, with
three different colors (red, green, and blue) for each pixel. Combining red, green,
and blue light in different amounts, controlled by the voltage applied across the LC
material at each of these individual areas (called subpixels) lets each pixel appear
as any color and any brightness, and the combination of all the pixels on the panel
creates the complete image.
Fluorescent lights (very similar to the fluorescent tubes used in standard office
lighting, but much smaller) or light-emitting diodes (LEDs) provide the “backlighting”
for the LCD display—the light that will pass through the panel from the rear, and so
create the image. The light from the backlight unit passes through a translucent
plastic diffuser layer, which spreads the light evenly across the screen.
Why TFTs?
In the simplest LCD technology, the voltage applied across the LC material is
delivered by transparent row and column electrodes, lines of conductive material
which cross at 90 degrees (one set on the “top” glass, and the other on the
bottom). The intersection of rows and columns define the pixels and subpixels of the
display, and applying a voltage to a given row and column switches the pixel at
that particular intersection. If the panel is driven such that the pixels are switched, in
order across the display, very rapidly, the appearance of a complete image is
produced. Unfortunately, when the drive voltage is removed from a given pixel and
we move on to the next, that first pixel starts to switch back to its “off” state. This
limits the contrast, resolution, and the response time that can be achieved with such
a simple, passive-matrix drive system.
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