Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a grating sheet, a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, and methods for manufacturing a grating sheet and a LCD panel.
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A conventional LCD device generates the R, G, B primary color light by using the R, G, B sub-pixels on a color filter substrate comprising a plurality of R, G, B sub-pixels disposed parallel with one another and in an array, as shown in
Embodiments of the present application provide a grating sheet, a LCD device and methods for manufacturing the grating sheet and a liquid crystal display panel, which can prevent part of light emitted from the backlight module from being absorbed by a black matrix and thus wasted so that a utilization ratio of the light is relatively high.
According to an aspect of the disclosure, a grating sheet is provided, which comprises a plurality of primary color gratings disposed parallel with one another, wherein each primary color grating comprises a red (R) sub-grating, a green (G) sub-grating, and a blue (B) sub-grating parallel with one another, and wherein each sub-grating comprises an opening area with a metal layer for diffraction therein and with a reflective region disposed around and corresponds to a pixel unit.
According to an aspect of the disclosure, a liquid crystal display (LCD) device is provided, comprising: a liquid crystal cell, comprising an upper polarizing film, a liquid crystal display panel, and a bottom polarizing film from top to bottom, wherein the liquid crystal display panel comprises an array substrate, an opposing substrate and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the array substrate and the opposing substrate; and the above-described grating sheet, wherein the grating sheet is provided at a light exiting side of the backlight module.
According to an aspect of the disclosure, a method for manufacturing a grating sheet is provided, wherein the method comprises: sequentially depositing a silicon nitride film on a base substrate, forming a red (R) sub-wire grating, a green (G) sub-wire grating and a blue (B) sub-wire grating by a patterning process and then coating a metal film on the base substrate to form a red (R) sub-grating, a green (G) sub-grating and a blue (B) sub-grating parallel with one another; and forming a reflective film on the base substrate, and forming a reflective region around the opening area of each sub-grating by a patterning process.
According to an aspect of the disclosure, a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel is provided, wherein it comprise: forming an opposing substrate with only a transparent conductive film deposited thereon; forming an array substrate on which a data line and a gate line are crosses with each other and define a pixel unit; forming the grating sheet according to embodiments of the disclosure, wherein the grating sheet is formed on a glass substrate, an array substrate or an opposing substrate; attaching the array substrate and the grating sheet or attaching the opposing substrate and the grating sheet when the grating sheet is formed on the glass substrate; and when the grating sheet is formed on the array substrate or the opposing substrate, attaching the array substrate and the opposing substrate.
Further scope of applicability of the present disclosure will become apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the disclosure, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the disclosure will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description.
The present disclosure will become more fully understood from the detailed description given hereinafter and the accompanying drawings which are given by way of illustration only, and thus are not limitative of the present disclosure and wherein:
a) is a first cross-sectional view of the grating sheet as shown in
b) is a second cross-sectional view of the grating sheet as shown in
a) is a schematic structural view of the LCD device according to an embodiment of the disclosure.
b) is a schematic structural view of the LCD device according to another embodiment of the disclosure.
c) is a schematic structural view of the LCD device according to another embodiment of the disclosure.
d) is a schematic structural view of the LCD device according to another embodiment of the disclosure.
e) is a schematic structural view of the LCD device according to another embodiment of the disclosure.
f) is a schematic structural view of the LCD device according to another embodiment of the disclosure.
a) to 8(e2) show the process of manufacturing a grating sheet according to still another embodiment of the disclosure.
To make objectives, technical solutions and advantages provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure more clearly, a clear and full description will be made to the technical solutions of embodiments of present disclosure hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings. Apparently, rather than all the embodiments, embodiments to be described are only a part of embodiments of present disclosure. Based on the embodiments of the present disclosure, other embodiments conceived by those skilled in the art without inventive work would fall within the scope of present disclosure.
Embodiments of the disclosure provides a grating sheet, a liquid crystal display (LCD) device and the method for manufacturing the grating sheet and the liquid crystal display panel to prevent part of light emitted from a backlight module from being absorbed by a black matrix region and thus being wasted, which causes a relatively low utilization ratio.
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In the present embodiment, the reflective region may be a specular (or mirror) type reflective region as shown in
According to the optical principle, gratings with different widths and intervals can be used for selecting light having different wavelengths, that is, for transmitting light having specific wavelengths. The R, G, B primary color light required for the LCD device for display can be accordingly obtained by adjusting the design parameters of grating sheets based on such optical principle. In the present embodiment, the R, G, B primary color light may be selectively transmitted by using sub-gratings having the same period length but different opening area widths, so as to form an R sub-grating, a G sub-grating and a B sub-grating. For example, if the metal layer for diffraction is an aluminum metal layer, the design parameters of the grating sheet may be determined as follows:
R sub-grating: l=0.813 um, Φ=20%, t=80 nm, d=20 nm;
G sub-grating: l=0.813 um, Φ=36%, t=60 nm, d=40 nm;
B sub-grating: l=0.813 um, Φ=47%, t=40 nm, d=60 nm;
wherein “l” is a period length of a sub-grating, “Φ” is a duty cycle and Φ=w/l, “w” is an opening width of a sub-grating opening area, “t” is a thickness of the metal layer for diffraction on the sub-grating, and “d” is an interval between the opening area and the reflective region.
It should be noted that the design of the R, G, B sub-gratings are not limited to the above-described one. In another example, the design may include the same period length, the same duty cycle and different material for forming the metal layer so as to achieve R, G, B sub-gratings, and unnecessary details will not be given here for simplicity. For example, the thickness of the metal layer of the R sub-gratings is in the range of 75-85 nm; the thickness of the metal layer of the G sub-gratings is in the range of 55-65 nm; and the thickness of the metal layer of the B sub-gratings is in the range of 35-45 nm; the material of the metal layers of the sub-gratings may be aluminum, copper, chromium, and the like.
Since the grating sheet provided by embodiment of the disclosure comprises a plurality of parallel disposed primary color gratings comprising an R (red) sub-grating, a G (green) sub-grating and a B (blue) sub-grating, each of which comprises an opening area and a reflective region disposed around the opening area and corresponds to a pixel unit on the array substrate, thereby the grating sheet can display R, G, B colors. Since each sub-grating further comprises a reflective region so that the light emitted from the backlight module and not passing through the grating sheet is reflected from the reflective region back to the backlight module, and further reflected to the grating sheet by the backlight module, thereby the light which does not pass through the grating sheet initially can be utilized again; this configuration can solve the problem that a portion of light emitted from the backlight module is be absorbed by a black matrix region and thus wasted, which causes a relatively low utilization ratio.
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Preferably, the grating sheet 53 is disposed between the light incident side of the liquid crystal layer and the light exiting side of the backlight module in the liquid crystal display panel, as shown in
It should be noted that the above described embodiments are explained by taking the TFT array substrate of the liquid crystal display panel as the light incident side of the liquid crystal display panel as an example; however, it can also be explained by taking the opposing substrate in the liquid crystal display panel as the light incident side of the liquid crystal display panel as an example where the light path is similar to that in the aforesaid embodiments, which will not be described in detail here for simplicity. If the opposing substrate encounters the light emitted from the backlight module before the grating sheet, the opposing substrate is only disposed with a transparent conductive layer.
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According to the LCD device provided by the embodiment of the disclosure, since the grating sheets comprise a plurality of parallel disposed primary color gratings comprising an R (red) sub-grating, a G (green) sub-grating and a B (blue) sub-grating, each of which comprises an opening area and a reflective region disposed around the opening area and corresponds to a pixel unit on the array substrate, thereby the grating sheets can display R. G, B colors. Since each sub-grating further comprises a reflective region so that the light emitted from the backlight module and then not passing through the grating sheet is reflected from the reflective region onto the backlight module, and further reflected to the grating sheet by the backlight module, thus the light which does not pass through the grating sheets initially can be utilized again, preventing part of the light emitted from the backlight module from being absorbed by the black matrix region and thus wasted and causing a low utilization ratio.
A method for manufacturing the grating sheet according to an embodiment of the disclosure comprises the following steps.
Step 801, sequentially depositing a silicon nitride film on a base substrate, forming an R (red) sub-wire grating, a G (green) sub-wire grating, and a B (blue) sub-wire grating by a patterning process and then coating a metallic film on the substrate to form an R (red) sub-grating, a G (green) sub-grating, and a B (blue)sub-grating parallel with one another.
In the present embodiment, the base substrate may be a transparent substrate such as a glass substrate or a plastic substrate, an opposing substrate only with a transparent conductive film deposited thereon, or a finished array substrate. In the present embodiment, the metallic film for diffraction may be an aluminum metallic film which has a high extinction ratio and a high luminous flux, and the design parameters of the grating sheet are as follows:
R sub-grating: l=0.813um, Φ=20%, t=80 nm, d=20 nm;
G sub-grating: l=0.813um, Φ=36%, t=60 nm, d=40 nm;
B sub-grating: l=0.813um, Φ=47%, t=40 nm, d=60 nm;
wherein “l” is a period length of a sub-grating, “Φ” is a duty cycle and Φ=w/l. “w” is an opening width of a sub-grating opening area, “t” is a thickness of the metal layer for diffraction on the sub-grating, and “d” is an interval between the opening area and the reflective region.
Step 802, depositing a reflective film on the base substrate, forming a reflective region by a patterning process, wherein the reflective region is disposed around the opening area of each sub-grating.
Another method for manufacturing the grating sheet according to another embodiment of the disclosure comprises the following steps.
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It should be noted that the substrate may be a transparent substrate such as a glass substrate or a plastic substrate, an opposing substrate, or an array substrate. If the base substrate is an opposing substrate, the opposing substrate is only with a transparent conductive film deposited thereon. If the base substrate is an array substrate, the method further comprises depositing a transparent conductive film on the array substrate before sequentially depositing the silicon nitride film on the substrate.
According to the grating sheet, the LCD device and the method for manufacturing the grating sheet and the liquid crystal display panel provided by embodiments of the disclosure, since the grating sheet comprise a plurality of parallel disposed primary color gratings comprising an R (red) sub-grating, a G (green) sub-grating and a B (blue) sub-grating, each of which comprises an opening area and a reflective region disposed around the opening area and corresponds to a pixel unit on the array substrate, thereby the grating sheet can display R, G, B colors. Since each sub-grating further comprises a reflective region so that the light emitted from the backlight module and not passing through the grating sheet is reflected from the reflective region onto the backlight module and further reflected to the grating sheet by the backlight module, thereby the light which does not pass through the grating sheet initially can be utilized again, which can solve the problem that part of the light emitted from the backlight module may be absorbed by the black matrix region and thus wasted and causes a low utilization ratio.
A method for manufacturing the liquid crystal display panel according to an embodiment of the disclosure comprises the following steps.
Step 1001, forming an opposing substrate on which only a transparent conductive film is formed.
Step 1002, forming an array substrate, wherein data lines and gate lines are crosses with each other and thus define pixel units on the array substrate.
Step 1003, forming an above-mentioned grating sheet, wherein the grating sheet is formed on a transparent substrate, the array substrate or the opposing substrate.
Step 1004, when the grating sheet is formed on the transparent substrate, attaching together the array substrate and the grating sheet or attaching together the opposing substrate and the grating sheet.
Step 1005, when the grating sheet is formed on the array substrate or the opposing substrate, attaching together the array substrate and the opposing substrate.
According to the method for manufacturing the liquid crystal display panel according to the embodiment of the disclosure, since the grating sheet comprise a plurality of parallel disposed primary color gratings comprising an R (red) sub-grating, a G (green) sub-grating and a B (blue) sub-grating, each of which comprises an opening area and a reflective region disposed around the opening area and corresponds to a pixel unit on the array substrate, thereby the grating sheet can display R, G, B colors. Since each sub-grating further comprises a reflective region, so that the light emitted from the backlight module and not passing through the grating sheet initially is reflected from the reflective region onto the backlight module and further reflected to the grating sheet by the backlight module again, thereby the light which does not pass through the grating sheet initially can be utilized again, which can solve the problem that part of the light emitted from the backlight module may be absorbed by the black matrix region and wasted and causes a relatively low utilization ratio.
The grating sheet, the LCD device and methods for manufacturing the grating sheet, liquid crystal display panel according to embodiments of the disclosure may be applied to a system having a liquid crystal display.
It should be appreciated that the embodiments described above are intended to illustrate but not limit the present disclosure. Although the present disclosure has been described in detail herein with reference to the preferred embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the present disclosure can be realized with different material and equipment as necessary, and that various modification and equivalents thereof can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
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201010620524.2 | Dec 2010 | CN | national |