The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No.201610539965.7, filed on Jul. 11, 2016 before the Chinese Patent Office, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to technical field of display, and particularly to an array substrate, a transparent display substrate, a transparent display device and a vehicle including the transparent display device.
Transparent display is utilized in more applications, such as head-up display in a vehicle, window display, etc.
The present disclosure is provided to overcome at least one of the above and other problems defects in the prior arts.
An object of the present disclosure is to provide an array substrate, a transparent display substrate, a transparent display device and a vehicle including the transparent display device, for increasing light transmittance of the array substrate, the transparent display substrate, and the transparent display device.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an array substrate including: a transparent substrate; a plurality of pixel units formed on the transparent substrate; and a wire grid polarizer formed on the transparent substrate; a position of the wire grid polarizer on the transparent substrate corresponds to a position where the plurality of pixel units are located on the transparent substrate, such that an orthographic projection of the wire grid polarizer on the transparent substrate fully or partially overlap orthographic projections of the plurality of pixel units on the transparent substrate.
In an embodiment, the wire grid polarizer comprises a strip element array composed of a plurality of strip elements, the strip element array being arranged such that each of the strip elements transmits therethrough a light component of incident light in a preset polarization direction while reflecting a light component of the incident light in a polarization direction orthogonal to the preset polarization direction.
In an embodiment, each of the pixel units comprises one or more sub-pixel portions and a position of each of the strip elements on the transparent substrate corresponds to a position of each of the sub-pixel portions on the transparent substrate, such that an orthographic projection of the strip element on the transparent substrate at least partially overlap an orthographic projection of the corresponding sub-pixel portion on the transparent substrate.
In an embodiment, each of the pixel units comprises a plurality of sub-pixel portions and a first light transmission region is provided between adjacent sub-pixel portions of each of the pixel units, or
a second light transmission region is provided between adjacent pixel units and no light transmission region is provided among the plurality of sub-pixel portions of each of the pixel units.
In an embodiment, a third light transmission region is provided between adjacent strip elements at a position corresponding to the first light transmission region and/or the second light transmission region.
In an embodiment, a width of each of the strip elements of the wire grid polarizer is equal to a width of a corresponding sub-pixel portion.
In an embodiment, a width of each of the strip elements of the wire grid polarizer is less than a width of a corresponding sub-pixel portion.
In an embodiment, a width of each of the strip elements of the wire grid polarizer is equal to a half of a width of a corresponding sub-pixel portion.
In an embodiment, each of the strip elements of the wire grid polarizer comprises a material having electrically conductive and light reflective properties.
In an embodiment, each of the strip elements comprises a plurality of material lines, a separation distance between the material lines is in a range from 40 nm to 150 nm, and a thickness of each material line is in a range from 40 nm to 150 nm.
In an embodiment, materials of the material lines include a metal or an electrically conductive polymer.
In an embodiment, the array substrate further includes a protective layer provided on a side of the wire grid polarizer facing away from the transparent substrate to cover the wire grid polarizer.
In an embodiment, the wire grid polarizer is located at the same side of the transparent substrate as the plurality of sub-pixel portions.
In an embodiment, the wire grid polarizer is located at a side of the transparent substrate opposite from the plurality of sub-pixel portions.
In an embodiment, each of the pixel units comprises a plurality of sub-pixel portions including a blue sub-pixel portion, a red sub-pixel portion and a green sub-pixel portion.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a transparent display substrate including the above array substrate.
In an embodiment, a color filter layer is further provided on the array substrate of the transparent display substrate.
According to a further aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a transparent display device including the above array substrate or the above transparent display substrate.
According to a still further aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a vehicle including a head-up display system, the head-up display system including the above transparent display device.
In order to make objects, technical schemes and advantages of the present disclosure more definite, embodiments of the present disclosure will be further described in detail with reference to the drawings. In this description, like or similar reference numerals refer to like or similar elements. Description of the embodiments of the present disclosure made with reference to the drawings tends to describe general concepts of the disclosure, and should not be understood as being limitative to the present disclosure.
In the following detailed description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the disclosed embodiments. It will be apparent, however, that one or more embodiments may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are schematically shown in order to simplify the drawing.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an array substrate, as shown in
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the wire grid polarizer 201 is arranged such that each strip element 2011 transmits therethrough a light component of incident light (for example, ambient light) in a preset polarization direction while reflecting a light component of the incident light in a polarization direction orthogonal to the preset polarization direction. Positions where the strip elements 2011 are located on the transparent substrate are respectively in one-to-one correspondence to positions where the sub-pixel portions are located on the transparent substrate.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, each strip element 2011 of the wire grid polarizer includes a material having electrically conductive and light reflective properties. For example, each strip element of the wire grid polarizer includes a plurality of material lines made of metal. In other words, each strip element of the wire grid polarizer includes a plurality of metal lines. The metal line may be an aluminum line, a chromium line, a silver line, or an alloy line formed by an alloy of aluminum, silver or chromium. In some situations, each strip element of the wire grid polarizer includes a plurality of lines made of electrically conductive polymers.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a material film such as a metal material film may be deposited on the transparent substrate, and then the deposited material film is etched, thereby forming a plurality of strip elements 2011 each including a plurality of material lines on the transparent substrate. As schematically shown by vertical lines in
Specifically, a patterning process may be performed using a mask during deposition of the material film to obtain a preliminary pattern of the material film. For example, a strip material belt is firstly deposited on the substrate by using a mask, and then the material belt is etched through an etching process by using a mask to obtain a material line (such as metal line) microstructure of each strip element 2011, thereby forming a final strip element array 201 or wire grid polarizer 201.
In another embodiment of the present disclosure, the strip element array or wire grid polarizer 201 may be directly formed through deposition by using a mask, such that each strip element 2011 has a material line (such as metal line) microstructure and no etching process is needed.
An operation principle of a wire grid polarizer is known in the art. When electromagnetic radiation or light with a certain wavelength is incident to the strip element 2011, a polarization light component of the light with a polarization direction parallel to the wire grid element is reflected by the strip element 2011 while a polarization light component of the light with an orthogonal polarization direction is transmitted through the strip element 2011 if the separation distance p between the material lines of the strip element 2011 is in a range from a half to about two times of the wavelength.
According to embodiments of the disclosure, positions of the plurality of strip elements 2011 of the wire grid polarizer 201 on the transparent substrate are respectively in one-to-one correspondence to positions of the plurality of pixel units on the transparent substrate. In other words, orthographic projections of the plurality of strip elements 2011 of the wire grid polarizer 201 on the transparent substrate respectively correspond to or at least partially overlap orthographic projections of the plurality of sub-pixel portions on the transparent substrate. For example, in
It is appreciated that, however, the strip elements of the wire grid polarizer may also be provided at positions corresponding to the intervals or the light transmission regions 2054. In this configuration, the light transmission regions may still transmit part of the light.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a light transmission region is provided between every two ones of the sub-pixel portions in each pixel unit, that is, the sub-pixel portions are spaced apart from one another, and the light transmission region may be provided among the plurality of pixel units, that is, the pixel units are spaced apart from one another. In this situation, one light transmission region is provided between every two ones of the sub-pixel portions on the substrate.
It is appreciated that it is also possible that no light transmission region may be provided among the pixel units.
According to another embodiment of the present disclosure, each pixel unit may include one sub-pixel portion, two sub-pixel portions or three sub-pixel portions, which may be determined as required. For example, in situation where one pixel unit includes one sub-pixel portion, the pixel unit includes one type of sub-pixel portion. In another embodiment, a plurality of sub-pixel portions of a pixel unit may only include a combination of a red light sub-pixel portion and a blue sub-pixel portion. In an embodiment, a plurality of sub-pixel portions of a pixel unit may include a combination of a green sub-pixel portion and a blue sub-pixel portion. In an embodiment, a plurality of sub-pixel portions of a pixel unit may only include a combination of a green sub-pixel portion and a red sub-pixel portion. The sub-pixel portions are arranged close to one another so as to form an array, or, they are arranged one by one, forming an array. In another embodiment of the present disclosure, light transmission regions are provided among the pixel units. In another embodiment of the present disclosure, the sub-pixel portions are arranged to be spaced apart from one another. In other words, light transmission portions are provided among the sub-pixel portions of the pixel units. Each pixel unit may include three types of sub-pixel portions, or may include two types of sub-pixel portions, or may include only one type of sub-pixel portion, which may be determined as required.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a width of each strip element 2011 of the wire grid polarizer is the same as a width of a corresponding sub-pixel portion 2051, 2052, 2053. In other words, an orthographic projection of each strip element 2011 of the wire grid polarizer on the transparent substrate may fully overlap or coincide with an orthographic projection of the corresponding sub-pixel portion 2051, 2052, 2053 on the transparent substrate.
In another embodiment of the present disclosure, a width of each strip element 2011 of the wire grid polarizer is the same as a width of a corresponding sub-pixel portion 2051, 2052, 2053, and an orthographic projection of each strip element 2011 of the wire grid polarizer on the transparent substrate may partially overlap an orthographic projection of the corresponding sub-pixel portion 2051, 2052, 2053 on the transparent substrate, that is, the orthographic projections are staggered by a certain amount.
In another embodiment of the present disclosure, a width of each strip element 2011 of the wire grid polarizer is less than a width of a corresponding sub-pixel portion 2051, 2052, 2053. This case is illustrated in
In a still embodiment of the present disclosure, a width of each strip element 4011 or 5011 of the wire grid polarizer is half of a width of a corresponding sub-pixel portion 2051, 2052, 2053. As the width of each strip element of the wire grid polarizer is reduced, light transmittance of the transparent substrate is thus largely increased while maintaining a sufficient display resolution.
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
In the embodiment shown in
As shown in
Another embodiment of the present disclosure is illustrated in
The difference of embodiment shown in
Another embodiment of the present disclosure is illustrated in
As shown in
An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a transparent display substrate, including any one of the above array substrates. In the embodiment, the transparent display substrate further includes a color filter layer.
In a further embodiment of the present disclosure, the transparent display substrate further includes a color filter layer, a black matrix and a post spacer. That is, in the embodiment, the layers of the color filter substrate in prior art are formed on the array substrate, and thus a process of assembling an array substrate and a color filter substrate into a cell may be omitted. According to the embodiment of the present disclosure, the problem of undesirable defects caused by poor assembling accuracy may be essentially solved, and an aperture ratio may be increased and quality of a panel may be improved.
In another embodiment of the present disclosure, a transparent display device includes the above array substrate. As shown in
In another embodiment of the present disclosure, a transparent display device includes any one of the above transparent substrates.
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a vehicle including a head-up display system, the head-up display system including the above transparent display device.
Although the present disclosure has been illustrated and described with reference to exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, it is appreciated that various modification and changes in detail and form may be made without departing from spirit and scope of the present disclosure defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
---|---|---|---|
201610539965.7 | Nov 2016 | CN | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
---|---|---|---|
PCT/CN2017/073779 | 2/16/2017 | WO | 00 |