Multi-Layer Light Conversion Film for LCD Backlight Efficiency

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current light conversion technologies face challenges in achieving high efficiency and stability for liquid crystal display backlights, particularly in enhancing color gamut and purity while maintaining cost-effectiveness and resistance to heat and oxygen degradation.

Innovation Solution

A light conversion device with a light source and a multi-layer light conversion film using organic fluorescent dyes, where each layer has a different maximum light emission wavelength, dispersed in a light transmitting polymer resin, effectively converts blue light to green or red light, enhancing light-fastness reliability and color rendering.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the concentration of organic fluorescent dye is increased to increase conversion efficiency and intensity of converted light, then light conversion efficiency is improved, but extinction caused by concentration increases and stability against heat or light decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelight conversion efficiencyVSAvoidstability against heat or light
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the light conversion function into multiple separate layers, each containing a specific organic fluorescent dye with a defined emission wavelength range. By segmenting the conversion task across multiple layers rather than using a single high-concentration dye, the patent achieves high overall conversion efficiency while maintaining stability in each individual layer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Each layer is designed with specific local properties - different organic fluorescent dyes are selected for each layer based on their emission characteristics. This allows optimization of conversion efficiency for specific wavelength ranges in each layer while maintaining appropriate dye concentrations that prevent excessive extinction and degradation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If inorganic fluorescent substances are used to achieve high color purity and excellent stability, then color purity and stability are improved, but cost increases and light emission efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestability and color purityVSAvoidcost and light emission efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs organic fluorescent dyes that are significantly cheaper than inorganic fluorescent substances. Although organic dyes were traditionally considered less stable, the patent overcomes this limitation through the multi-layer structure and encapsulation in transparent resins, achieving both cost-effectiveness and stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a composite structure combining organic fluorescent dyes with transparent resins or polymers as encapsulating materials. This composite approach provides the benefits of low-cost organic dyes while the resin matrix protects against degradation from heat and oxygen, achieving stability comparable to inorganic materials.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

3Use of energy by moving object

If nanocrystal fluorescent substances are used to achieve high quantum efficiency and strong fluorescence, then quantum efficiency is improved, but raw material costs increase and resistance to heat or oxygen decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantum efficiencyVSAvoidresistance to heat or oxygen
Core Design Contradiction:
Use of energy by moving objectVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses transparent resins or polymers as intermediary protective layers that encapsulate the organic fluorescent dyes. These resin matrices act as barriers against oxygen and heat, protecting the dye molecules from degradation while allowing the dyes to maintain their high quantum efficiency and fluorescence properties.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

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 solution significantly enhances light conversion efficiency, maintains optical properties, and ensures stable operation of liquid crystal display backlights by reducing oxidation of the wavelength converting material, thereby providing a wide color gamut and high color purity with improved light-fastness reliability.

Implementation Method 1

fluorescent substances are generally a light emitting material emitting light with a unique wavelength by absorbing energy in the form of light or electricity from the outside

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFluorescence: Fluorescence

Implementation Method 2

a fluorescent substance absorbing some of specific wavelengths of light coming out of a light source, converting this to light with a longer wavelength in a visible region and emitting the light

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight conversion: Photoluminescence

Data Source

PatentUS10139676B2Light conversion device and display apparatus comprising the same
Publication Date: 2018.11.27 LG CHEM LTD
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AI summary

The present application relates to a light conversion device, a backlight unit and a display apparatus.