The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and in particular, to a reflective liquid crystal display panel and a display device.
A reflective liquid crystal display is a liquid crystal display which uses ambient light as a light source to realize an image display. The specific structure of the reflective liquid crystal display panel as shown in
When ambient light is sufficient, the reflective liquid crystal display can realize the display function; while in the case of insufficient ambient light or dark room, light utilization rate is very low, which seriously affects the display effect of the screen.
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a reflective liquid crystal display panel, which includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate, a liquid crystal layer, an absorptive polarizer, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a reflective polarized structure, and a plurality of light conversion structures. The opposite substrate is disposed opposite to the array substrate; the liquid crystal layer is located between the opposite substrate and the array substrate; the absorptive polarizer is located at a surface of the liquid crystal layer away from the array substrate, and the absorptive polarizer has a light transmission axis; the plurality of pixel electrodes are located at a surface of the array substrate facing the liquid crystal layer; the reflective polarized structure is located between the pixel electrode and the array substrate, the reflective polarized structure has a light reflection axis, and the light reflection axis and the light transmission axis are parallel or perpendicular to each other; the plurality of light conversion structures are located at a surface of the reflective polarized structure facing away from pixel electrodes, the light conversion structure is in one-to-one correspondence with the pixel electrode, and the light conversion structure is configured to convert incident light into light of a color corresponding to a pixel unit in which the pixel electrode is located.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reflective polarized structure is a metal wire grid polarized structure.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the metal wire grid polarized structure is electrically connected with the pixel electrode, and the metal wire grid polarized structure is electrically connected with a drain electrode in the array substrate.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the metal wire grid polarized structure and the pixel electrode are integrated.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reflective liquid crystal display panel further includes a mirror, wherein the mirror is located at a surface of the light conversion structure facing away from the reflective polarized structure.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the mirror is located at a surface of the array substrate facing away from the opposite substrate.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the mirror is located between the array substrate and the light conversion structure.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode corresponding to the light conversion structure is located is light having a first frequency in a visible light waveband;
the light conversion structure includes a down-conversion material configured to convert light having a third frequency and light having a second frequency in the visible light waveband into the light having the first frequency, wherein the first frequency is less than the second frequency and the second frequency is less than the third frequency.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode corresponding to the light conversion structure is located is light having a third frequency in a visible light waveband; the light conversion structure includes an up-conversion material configured to convert light having a first frequency and light having a second frequency in the visible light waveband into the light having the third frequency, wherein the first frequency is less than the second frequency and the second frequency is less than the third frequency.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode corresponding to the light conversion structure is located is light having a second frequency in a visible light waveband;
the light conversion structure includes an up-conversion material configured to convert light having a first frequency in the visible light waveband into the light having the second frequency, and/or a down-conversion material configured to convert light having a third frequency in the visible light waveband into the light having the second frequency, wherein the first frequency is less than the second frequency and the second frequency is less than the third frequency.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the down-conversion material includes an organic small molecule light emitting material or an organic high molecular polymer light emitting material.
In a possible implementation manner, in the above reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the up-conversion material includes: an inorganic compound doped with rare earth ions.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the up-conversion material comprises NaYF4 as a host material, doping with materials of Yb, Tm and Er, and the mole ratio of Yb:Tm:Er is 18˜60:0˜0.2:0˜2.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the up-conversion material comprises NaYF4 as a host material, doping with materials of Yb, Tm and Er, and the mole ratio of Yb:Tm:Er is 20:0.2:0-0.5.
In a possible implementation manner, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the up-conversion material is made of NaYF4 as a host material, doping with materials of Yb, Tm and Er, and the mole ratio of Yb:Tm:Er is 18˜25:0:2.
An embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display device, which includes the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure.
Specific embodiments of a reflective liquid crystal display panel and a display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present disclosure, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those ordinary skilled in the art without any creative work according to the embodiments of the present disclosure belong to the scope protected by the present disclosure.
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a reflective liquid crystal display panel, as shown in
The pixel electrode 50 is in one-to-one correspondence with the light conversion structure 70; the light conversion structure 70 is configured to convert an incident light into light of a color corresponding to the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode 50 is located.
A light reflection axis of the reflective polarized structure 60 and a light transmission axis of the absorptive polarizer 40 are parallel or perpendicular to each other.
Herein, the “surface” in the present disclosure includes an inner part of the surface, a face of the surface, and a space above the surface.
According to the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the incident light may be converted into light of color corresponding to the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode is located by arrangement of the light conversion structure. Compared with a structure that emits light by only reflecting light of a specific wavelength in the related art, the utilization ratio of light is increased. In addition, in combination with the arrangement of the reflective polarized structure, the light emitted by the light conversion structure is selected by polarization of the reflective polarized structure and then enters the liquid crystal layer, thereby effectively avoiding the problem that an image cannot be normally displayed due to change in a light polarization state caused by the light conversion structure. It may not only ensure the normal display of the display panel, but also improve the quality of the display.
In a specific implementation, when the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure is in a normally white mode, the light reflection axis of the reflective polarized structure and the light transmission axis of the absorptive polarizer are disposed to be parallel to each other. As shown in the schematic view of
In this embodiment, the reflective liquid crystal display panel may further include a mirror 80 located at a surface of the light conversion structure 70 facing away from the reflective polarized structure 60.
Specifically, when it is required to display the black state by using a normally white mode display panel, light may be rotated by 90° after passing through the liquid crystal layer by controlling the voltage; for example, as shown in
Specifically, when it is necessary to display various gray-scale images by using the normally white mode display panel, a deflection direction of the liquid crystal is controlled by controlling voltage; for example, as shown in
Specifically, when the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure is in the normally black mode, it is necessary to arrange the light reflection axis of the reflective polarized structure and the light transmission axis of the absorption polarizer to be perpendicular to each other. In the normally black mode, the display principle of the white state and the various gray-scale images is similar to that of the normally white mode display panel. Details thereof may refer to the embodiment of the normally white mode display panel, and will not be repeated herein.
In a specific implementation, in order to realize the function of the reflective polarized structure, the light emitted from the light conversion structure is selected by polarization and then enters the liquid crystal layer. In the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the reflective polarized structure is generally a metal wire grid polarized structure.
Specifically, the pixel electrode disposed on the surface of the metal wire grid polarized structure facing the liquid crystal layer is usually a transparent conductive material such as ITO; and the pixel electrode needs to be electrically connected with a drain electrode in the array substrate to facilitate providing a driving signal for the pixel electrode. However, in the structure shown in
Specifically, since the metal wire grid polarized structure made of metal material, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, the metal wire grid polarized structure and the pixel electrode can be integrated into a single structure, that is, the metal wire grid polarized structure is also used as a pixel electrode, as shown in the left oblique line filling region shown in
In a specific implementation, the mirror functions to reflect all incident light entering the mirror to the light conversion structure, so as to improve utilization ratio of the light, and to improve display brightness of the reflective liquid crystal display panel; therefore, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
Specifically, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the mirror 80 is located between the array substrate 10 and the light conversion structure 70, it can be seen from
In a specific implementation, since the pixel electrodes are in one-to-one correspondence with the light conversion structure, only the light conversion structure 70 is shown in
Specifically, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the light of the color corresponding to the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode is located is low frequency light in the visible light waveband, the material of the light conversion structure generally includes a down-conversion material for converting high frequency light and intermediate frequency light in the visible light waveband into low frequency light. Specifically, the down-conversion material may include one of or a combination of an inorganic light-emitting material and an organic light-emitting material, for example, a quantum dot material, a fluorescent material, or the like. The organic light-emitting material may be an organic small molecule light-emitting material or an organic high molecular polymer light-emitting material, which will not be limited herein. Moreover, when various down-conversion materials are selected as the light-conversion structure, various materials may be disposed in separate film layers and these film layers may be adjacent or spaced apart, or the various materials may be mixed in the same film layer, which will not be limited herein.
For example, when the light of the color corresponding to the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode is located is red light, the material of the light conversion structure is a down-conversion material for converting blue light and green light into red light. Specifically, the red color light-emitting material such as a red quantum dot or a red fluorescent material may be selected as the down-conversion material, which will not be limited herein.
Specifically, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the light of the color corresponding to the pixel unit where the pixel electrode is located is high frequency light in the visible light waveband, the various of the light conversion structure generally includes an up-conversion material for converting low frequency light and intermediate frequency light in the visible light waveband into high frequency light. Specifically, the up-conversion material may include an inorganic compound doped with rare earth ions. For example, depending on the high frequency light to be converted, one or more rare earth ions of respective concentrations and ratios may be doped in an inorganic compound such as fluoride, oxide, sulfur compound, oxyfluoride or halide. For example, the up-conversion material may be NaYF4, having the highest up-conversion light-emitting efficiency as a host material, doping with Yb, Tm and Er, and the mole ratio of Yb:Tm:Er is 18˜60:0˜0.2:0˜2. Moreover, when various up-conversion materials are used as the light-conversion structure, various materials may be disposed in separate film layers and the film layers may be adjacent or spaced apart, or the various materials may be mixed in the same film layer, which will not be limited herein.
For example, when the light of the color corresponding to the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode is located is blue light, the material of the light conversion structure is an up-conversion material for converting red light and green light into blue light. Specifically, the up-conversion material may be a host material doped with Yb, Tm and Er, and the host material may be an inorganic compound such as NaYF4, and the mole ratio of Yb:Tm:Er=20:0.2:0-0.5.
Specifically, in the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the light of the color corresponding to the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode is located is intermediate frequency light in the visible light waveband, the material of the light conversion structure generally includes an up-conversion material for converting low frequency light in the visible light waveband into intermediate frequency light, and/or a down-conversion material for converting high frequency light in the visible light waveband into intermediate frequency light. Also, in order to maximize utilization ratio of the light, the light conversion structure preferably needs to include both the up-conversion material and the down-conversion material. Specifically, the down-conversion material may include one of or a combination of the inorganic light emitting material and the organic light emitting material, for example, a quantum dot material, a fluorescent material or the like. The organic light-emitting material may be an organic small molecule light-emitting material or an organic high molecular polymer light-emitting material, which will not be limited herein. Specifically, the up-conversion material may include an inorganic compound doped with rare earth ions. For example, depending on the high frequency light to be converted, one or more rare earth ions of respective concentrations and ratios may be doped in an inorganic compound such as fluoride, oxide, sulfur compound, oxyfluoride or halide. For example, NaYF4, which has the highest up-conversion light-emitting efficiency, may be selected as the host material doping with Yb, Tm and Er, and the mole ratios of Yb:Tm:Er=18˜60:0˜0.2:0˜2. Moreover, when various up-conversion materials are selected as the light-conversion structure, various materials may be disposed in separate film layers and the film layers may be adjacent or spaced apart, or the various materials may be mixed in the same film layer, which will not be limited herein.
For example, when the light of the color corresponding to the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode is located is green light, the material of the light conversion structure may simultaneously include an up-conversion material for converting red light into green light and a down-conversion material for converting blue light into green light. Specifically, the down-conversion material may select a green organic light-emitting material such as a green quantum dot or a green fluorescent material, which will not be limited herein. Specifically, the up-conversion material may be a material in which the host material is doped with Yb, Tm and Er, and the inorganic material of the host material is NaYF4, the mole ratios of Yb:Tm:Er=18˜25:0:2.
In the reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, in one pixel as shown in
Based on the same disclosure concept, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display device including the above reflective liquid crystal display panel provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. The display device may be any product or element having a display function, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a television, a display, a notebook computer, a digital photo frame, a navigator and the like. For the implementation of the display device, reference may be made to the embodiments of the reflective liquid crystal display panel described above, which will not be repeatedly described herein.
A reflective liquid crystal display panel and a display device provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure may convert incident light into light corresponding to a pixel unit in which a pixel electrode is located by arrangement of the light conversion structure. Compared with a structure that emits light after only reflects light of a specific wavelength in the related art, the utilization ratio of light is increased. In addition, in combination with the arrangement of the reflective polarized structure, the light emitted by the light conversion structure is selected by polarization of the reflective polarized structure and then enters the liquid crystal layer, thereby effectively avoiding the problem that an image cannot be normally displayed due to change in a light polarization state caused by the light conversion structure. It may not only ensure the normal display of the display panel, but also improve the quality of the display.
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a reflective liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The reflective liquid crystal display panel includes: an array substrate and an opposite substrate disposed opposite to each other, a liquid crystal layer located between the opposite substrate and the array substrate, an absorption-type polarizer located at a surface of the liquid crystal layer away from the array substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes located at a surface of the array substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, a reflective polarized structure located between the pixel electrode and the array substrate, a plurality of light conversion structures located at a surface of the reflective polarized structure facing away from pixel electrodes, and a mirror located at a surface of the light conversion structure facing away from the reflective polarized structure; the pixel electrodes are in one-to-one correspondence with the light conversion structure; the light conversion structure being configured to convert incident light into light of a color corresponding to a pixel unit in which the pixel electrode is located; the light reflection axis of the reflective polarized structure and the light transmission axis of the absorption-type polarizer are parallel or perpendicular to each other. Therefore, by arrangement of the light conversion structure, the incident light can be converted into light of a color corresponding to the pixel unit in which the pixel electrode is located, thereby increasing utilization ratio of the light. In addition, in combination with the arrangement of the reflective polarized structure, the light emitted by the light conversion structure is selected by polarization of the reflective polarized structure and then enters the liquid crystal layer, thereby effectively avoiding the problem that an image cannot be normally displayed due to change in a light polarization state caused by the light conversion structure. It may not only ensure the normal display of the display panel, but also improve the quality of the display.
It is apparent that those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the embodiments of the present disclosure without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. Thus, it is intended that the present disclosure cover these modifications and variations which belong to the scope of the claims and its equivalent technical scope of the present disclosure.
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201710458594.4 | Jun 2017 | CN | national |
The present application is based on and claims priority to International Application No. PCT/CN2018/076299, filed on Feb. 11, 2018, which is based on and claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201710458594.4, filed on Jun. 16, 2017, the entire contents thereof are incorporated herein by reference.
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PCT/CN2018/076299 | 2/11/2018 | WO | 00 |