《Optimized pattern design of light-guide plate (LGP)》.pdfVIP

Optica Applicata, Vol. XLI, No. 4, 2011 Optimized pattern design of light-guide plate (LGP) 1 2 2* YOUNG CHUL KIM , TAE-SIK OH , YONG MIN LEE 1Department of Optometry, Eulji University, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 461-713, Korea 2 Department of Information Display, Sun Moon University, 100 Kalsan-ri, Tangjeong-myeon, Asan-si, Chung Nam, 336-708, Korea * Corresponding author: qoptics@ We have investigated the light intensity distributions of a 7-inch LGP to increase output illuminance uniformity by reducing the bright and dark areas caused by a plurality of LED. We analyzed the effects of the LED–LED gap and LED–LGP space to the light intensity distribution in the LGP inside. We have found that the density function of LGP pattern has a simple exponential terms. We analyzed the output light intensity of the LGP through the comparison of the simulation results between adopting the hemisphere pattern density function and adopting the equidistance pattern density function. And also, to reduce the bright spot and dark areas, we have introduced a convex elliptical LED reflector. As a result, the output illuminance uniformity was improved effectively by the adoption of the pattern density function and the new LED reflector. Keywords: TFT-LCD, backlight unit (BLU), light-guide plate (LGP), pattern density function, hot spot. 1. Introduction A thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) is a standard for mobile devices such as note PC, navigation, PDA, cellular phone, etc. Since LCD panels are not emissive devices, backlight unit (BLU) which is usually located behind the LCD panel is used for an LCD system as a light source unit. A typical BLU consists of an light- -guide plate (LGP), a diffusion sheet, two prism sheets, a reflector and a light source which is located at edges of the L