KR101505429B1 - Backlighting unit employing polarized light source - Google Patents
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Abstract
A backlight unit employing a polarized light source is disclosed. The backlight unit irradiates the polarized light to the liquid crystal display panel and includes a light emitting diode package including at least one non-polarized light emitting diode chip, and the light emitting diode package emits white light. By adopting the non-polarized light emitting diode that emits the polarized light, the light loss of the LCD module can be reduced, and the thickness of the LCD panel or the backlight unit can be reduced.
Liquid crystal display, backlight unit, non-polar light emitting diode, polarizing film
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a backlight unit, and more particularly, to a backlight unit employing a polarized light source to irradiate polarized light to a liquid crystal display panel.
A passive display device, such as a liquid crystal display, can reflect or absorb ambient sunlight or room light to create an image. Therefore, in order to view an image to be displayed, surrounding sunlight or room light is required. However, there is a problem that if the intensity of ambient light or room light is not enough to illuminate a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, the displayed image can not be seen. As an alternative to such a problem, a backlight unit (BLU) for backlighting a display panel is generally adopted.
The backlight unit includes a light source such as an incandescent lamp, a fluorescent lamp, or a light emitting diode (LED). An image is realized by the light emitted from the light source illuminating the LCD panel. On the other hand, LED has excellent color reproducibility and is often used as a backlight light source, and is expected to be used in the future because it is environmentally friendly.
1 is a schematic view showing a conventional general LCD module employing an LED light source.
Referring to FIG. 1, a conventional LCD module includes an
The
The light L having passed through the
That is, according to the related art, light emitted from a light source such as an LED is primarily polarized by using the lower polarizing
On the other hand, a reflective polarized DBEF film (Vikuiti ™ DBEF) has been developed and used to reduce the total power consumption by reducing the optical loss. The reflective polarized DBEF film allows one direction of polarized light (for example, P wave) of light incident on the DBEF film to pass through and reflects another polarization (for example, S wave). The light reflected from the reflective polarized DBEF film is reflected back on the
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a backlight unit capable of reducing the total power consumption of an LCD module by reducing optical loss.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a backlight unit capable of reducing the thickness of an LCD panel and / or a backlight unit.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a backlight unit for an LCD module capable of realizing an image without using a lower polarizing film and / or a reflective polarized DBEF film.
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a backlight unit employing a polarized light source. The backlight unit includes a light emitting diode package including at least one non-polar or semi-polar LED chip for irradiating polarized light to a liquid crystal display panel, Emits white light.
The liquid crystal display panel may include an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer positioned between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, and an upper polarizing film disposed on the upper substrate. The backlight unit is disposed below the lower substrate And irradiates the polarized light to the lower substrate.
Here, the nonpolar light emitting diode is distinguished from a polarized light emitting diode including a compound semiconductor layer grown in the c-axis direction, and includes a compound semiconductor layer grown on the m-plane or the a- And includes semi-polar light emitting diodes as well as non-polar.
The nonpolar light emitting diode includes a GaN-based nitride semiconductor layer such as GaN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN. The nitride semiconductor light emitting diode may emit light in the ultraviolet and visible light regions by adjusting the composition ratio thereof.
Unlike the polarized light emitting diode, the non-polarized light emitting diode has been reported to exhibit the characteristic of emitting polarized light in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 46, No. 42, 2007, pp. L1010-L1012 have.
Accordingly, the present invention can extract the polarized light from the light source by using the non-polarized light emitting diode as a light source, and accordingly, the lower polarizing film (19 in FIG. 1) or the reflection polarizing DBEF 29) can be removed.
On the other hand, the non-polarized light emitting diode may partially emit non-polarized light. In this case, in order to polarize the unpolarized light, the liquid crystal display panel may further include a lower polarizing film positioned between the lower substrate and the backlight unit. However, since the ratio of the unpolarized light is relatively low, the lower polarizing film may have a lower polarization degree and a higher transmittance than the upper polarizing film.
Generally, the polarizing film used in the LCD module has a polarization degree of 98 to 100% and a transmittance of 40 to 50%. However, since the light emitted from the non-polarized light emitting diode has a high proportion of already polarized light, the lower polarizing film used in the embodiments of the present invention may have a degree of polarization of 70 to 90% and a transmittance of 60 to 80% Lt; / RTI >
The light emitting diode package may include at least two non-polar or semi-polar light emitting diode chips, and the light emitting diode chips may emit light having different peak wavelengths. Accordingly, a combination of non-polar or semi-polarized light emitting diode chips can realize white light. In addition, the light emitting diode package may include a phosphor, and a mixed color light of various colors, particularly white light, may be realized by combining the light emitting diode chips and the phosphor.
According to embodiments of the present invention, by adopting a polarized light source, it is possible to reduce the light loss due to the conventional polarizing film or the reflective polarized light DBEF, thereby reducing the total power consumption of the LCD module. Further, the lower polarizing film and / or the reflection polarizing DBEF film can be removed, and the thickness of the LCD panel and / or the backlight unit can be reduced.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following embodiments are provided by way of example so that those skilled in the art can fully understand the spirit of the present invention. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described below, but may be embodied in other forms. In the drawings, the width, length, thickness, etc. of components may be exaggerated for convenience. Like reference numerals designate like elements throughout the specification.
2 is a schematic view illustrating an LCD module having a backlight unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 2, the LCD module includes an
The
The
The
In addition, the light emitting diode using the nitride semiconductor can be manufactured to emit light of a desired wavelength in the ultraviolet to visible region by controlling the composition ratio of the nitride semiconductor.
A nonpolar gallium nitride based light emitting diode device having a polarization ratio of 0.80 has been reported in Japanese Society of Applied Physics (Vol. 46, No. 42, 2007, pp. L1010-L1012) The crystal quality of the layer, the side wall polishing technique of the light emitting diode chip, and the like.
The light L having passed through the
Generally, a polarizing film used for an LCD panel requires a degree of polarization of 98 to 100%, and thus the transmittance does not exceed about 40 to 50%. However, in the present embodiment, for example, a polarizing film having a polarization degree of 70 to 90% and a transmissivity of 60 to 80% can be used as the lower
The light transmitted through the lower
According to this embodiment, the optical loss due to the polarizing film can be reduced without using a DBEF film such as a conventional reflective polarized light DBEF. Accordingly, the manufacturing cost of the LCD panel can be reduced, and the thickness of the backlight unit can be reduced. Further, the transmittance of the lower polarizing film can be increased, and the light loss can be further reduced.
On the other hand, when the polarization ratio of the
3 is a schematic view illustrating an LCD module having a backlight unit according to another embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 3, the LCD module according to the present embodiment includes a
That is, when the polarization ratio of the
In the embodiments of the present invention, although the
4 is a cross-sectional view for explaining an example of a package type non-polarized light emitting diode that can be adopted in embodiments of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 4, the non-polarized light emitting diode has a
The
A
And a
A
The
On the other hand, the
In this embodiment, white light can be realized by the
1 is a schematic view for explaining a liquid crystal display module according to the related art.
2 is a schematic view for explaining a liquid crystal display module having a backlight unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a schematic view for explaining a liquid crystal display module having a backlight unit according to another embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a cross-sectional view illustrating an example of a non-polarized light emitting diode package that can be used in embodiments of the present invention.
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