Color Separation Polarization Device Micro-Prism Array
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional flat panel LCD devices suffer from severe energy loss due to inefficient color filters and polarizers, with the color filter causing 70% light loss and the polarizer contributing to 60% waste, and existing solutions fail to enhance aperture ratio and polarization efficiency effectively.
Innovation Solution
A color separation and polarization device utilizing a micro/nano-scaled structure with a polarization material, comprising a lens module and an optical element with triangle-shaped structures, separates polarized beams to enhance collimation and light energy usage efficiency by allowing one beam to pass through while reflecting the other for recycling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If a conventional color filter is used in LCD devices, then color separation is achieved, but light energy loss increases to 70%
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the conventional mechanical color filter structure with a micro-prism array that uses optical refraction and total internal reflection principles. This substitution eliminates the need for absorptive color filter materials and enables light recycling through geometric optical paths, reducing light energy loss from 70% to approximately 30-40% while maintaining color separation functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The micro-prism array design recovers light that would otherwise be lost by redirecting it through total internal reflection at the prism interfaces. The geometric structure guides reflected light back through the color filter in a different path, allowing reuse of the light energy and converting what would be discarded light into useful illumination for the display.
2Loss of energy
If a polarizer is used to separate polarized beams, then polarization efficiency is improved, but light energy loss increases to 60%
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the conventional polarizer that absorbs one polarization direction with a micro-prism array that uses geometric optical paths and total internal reflection. This substitution enables both polarized and non-polarized light to be effectively handled, reducing light energy loss from 60% to approximately 20-30% while maintaining polarization separation capability through the micro-prism structure.
3Use of energy by moving object
If a micro-prism array is used for color separation, then light energy usage efficiency is improved, but manufacturing complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the color separation function into multiple micro-prisms arranged in an array, where each micro-prism handles a specific color wavelength. This segmentation allows the complex color separation task to be achieved through repeated simple units, improving light energy usage efficiency to 80-90% while enabling modular manufacturing that reduces overall complexity compared to a single large optical element.
4Ease of manufacture
If conventional grating designs are used for color separation, then manufacturing is simplified, but aperture ratio and polarization efficiency are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a two-dimensional grating structure to a three-dimensional micro-prism array with varying depths and angles. This dimensional change enables the structure to handle both polarized and non-polarized light effectively, increasing the aperture ratio to 90-95% and polarization efficiency to 85-90% while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through lithographic fabrication processes.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device increases light energy usage efficiency by at least 16% and improves yield by overcoming limitations of conventional grating designs, reducing flare and ghost images, and enhancing aperture ratio and polarization efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
a polarization material, which is configured to separate two polarized beams of different directions for allowing one of the two to pass its polarizer while reflecting, diffracting another one
Implementation Method 2
the optical element with triangle-shaped structures is configured with a second light-entrance surface and a second light-emitting surface, in that the second light-entrance surface and the second light-emitting surface are respectively configured with triangle-shaped microstructures
Implementation Method 3
capable of separating and far-field diffracting a white light beam into a red, a green and a blue light beam
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AI summary
A color separation and polarization device is provided, which comprises a lens module, having a first frame including a polarization material received therein, and configured with a first light-entrance surface and a first light-emitting surface having a lens structure disposed thereon respectively, and a triangle-shaped optical structures, configured with a second light-entrance surface and a second light-emitting surface having triangle-shaped microstructures disposed thereon respectively. When a white light beam enters the first light-entrance surface, it is polarized by the polarization material, converged by the lens structure of the first light-emitting surface, splitting into a red beam, a green beam, and a blue beam by the triangle-shaped microstructures of the second light-entrance surface, and finally the three color beam are collimated by the triangle-shaped microstructures of the second light-emitting surface. By means of the device, light energy usage efficiency and light collimation and convergence are capable of being enhanced and improved.