de Vaan; European patent EP0175417B1; 23 May 1990; filed 19 September 1984; Low Drive Voltage Display Device; T.L. After a page is written to the display, the display may be cut from the power while that information remains readable. As an inherently digital device, the LCD can natively display digital data from a. Slow response times and poor contrast are typical of passive-matrix addressed LCDs with too many pixels and driven according to the "Alt & Pleshko" drive scheme. Welzen; A.J.S.M. Subject to burn-in effect, although the cause differs from CRT and the effect may not be permanent, a static image can cause burn-in in a matter of hours in badly designed displays. The LCD panel is synchronized with the backlight.

Patents were granted in Switzerland CH 665491, Europe EP 0131216,[65] U.S. Patent 4,634,229 and many more countries. [18] They were typically restricted to 3 colors per pixel: orange, green, and blue. Sometimes the benzene rings are separated with an acetylene group, ethylene, CH=N, CH=NO, N=N, N=NO, or ester group. A. and Zanoni, L. A.: European Patent No. ", "[SID] Entire Surface of Handset becomes LCD", "Contemporary LCD Monitor Parameters: Objective and Subjective Analysis (page 3)", "Measuring Color-Reproduction Quality on TVs and Monitors", "Benchmark Results: Different Brightness Testing", "Rad Meters: Electromagnetic radiation from CRT, LCD, Plasma and LED screens and TVs", "Simple and Effective Protection from Computer Radiation", "A Comparison of Video Wall Technologies White Paper", "Eye strain from LED backlighting in MacBook Pro", "Is an LED monitor better for eyes than an LCD?
Optical filters are added to white on blue LCDs to give them their characteristic appearance. [176] Furthermore, the report failed to compare NF3's effects with what it replaced, perfluorocarbon, another powerful greenhouse gas, of which anywhere from 30 to 70% escapes to the atmosphere in typical use. Can be made in large sizes of over 80-inch (2 m) diagonal.

Color LCDs based on Guest-Host interaction were invented by a team at RCA in 1968. [175], Critics of the report point out that it assumes that all of the NF3 produced would be released to the atmosphere. [84] LCD TVs were projected to account 50% of the 200 million TVs to be shipped globally in 2006, according to Displaybank.


In 1992, shortly thereafter, engineers at Hitachi work out various practical details of the IPS technology to interconnect the thin-film transistor array as a matrix and to avoid undesirable stray fields in between pixels. For this purpose, TN LCDs are operated between parallel polarizers, whereas IPS LCDs feature crossed polarizers. If the applied voltage is large enough, the liquid crystal molecules in the center of the layer are almost completely untwisted and the polarization of the incident light is not rotated as it passes through the liquid crystal layer.

Mini-LED: Backlighting with Mini-LEDs can support over a thousand of Full-area Local Area Dimming (FLAD) zones.

Displays having a passive-matrix structure are employing super-twisted nematic STN (invented by Brown Boveri Research Center, Baden, Switzerland, in 1983; scientific details were published[130]) or double-layer STN (DSTN) technology (the latter of which addresses a color-shifting problem with the former), and color-STN (CSTN) in which color is added by using an internal filter. The zenithal bistable device (ZBD), developed by Qinetiq (formerly DERA), can retain an image without power.

Polarizable rod-shaped molecules (biphenyls, terphenyls, etc.) [82] In the late 1990s, the LCD industry began shifting away from Japan, towards South Korea and Taiwan,[74] which later shifted to China.