Quantum Dot Color Filter Polarizer for Display Light Utilization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional liquid crystal display technologies face limitations in achieving high color gamut and light intensity due to the use of dyes and specific wavelength transmission, leading to serious light loss and inferior color display quality.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating a quantum dot color filter layer into a polarizer structure, which includes protection layers and an adhesive layer, to enhance color purity, transmittance, and light utilization, thereby improving display color quality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If conventional dyes and red/green/blue color materials are used in the color filter, then the display device structure is simple, but the color gamut is limited and light intensity loss is serious

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay device structureVSAvoidlight intensity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the material parameter of the color filter from conventional dyes to quantum dots. This parameter change enables the color filter to maintain structural simplicity while achieving superior light transmission and color gamut performance, directly resolving the contradiction between manufacturing simplicity and light intensity preservation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs quantum dots as a composite material in the color filter layer. These quantum dot-based composite materials provide both the structural simplicity needed for manufacturing and the optical properties required for high light intensity and wide color gamut, simultaneously addressing both requirements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Ease of manufacture

If conventional dyes and red/green/blue color materials are used in the color filter, then the display device structure is simple, but the color gamut cannot be high

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay device structureVSAvoidcolor gamut
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the material parameter from conventional dyes to quantum dots in the color filter. This parameter change enables the system to achieve high color gamut (improving manufacturing precision of color reproduction) while maintaining the simplicity of the overall display device structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes the unique optical properties of quantum dots to achieve precise color control and wide color gamut. The quantum dots enable accurate color separation and reproduction, significantly improving the color gamut performance while keeping the device structure simple

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

3Manufacturing precision

If red/green/blue color materials are used to transmit specific wavelengths, then the color display is achieved, but the loss of light intensity is serious

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor displayVSAvoidlight intensity loss
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the material parameter of the color filter from conventional red/green/blue color materials to quantum dots. This parameter change enables the color filter to achieve precise color display while minimizing light intensity loss, as quantum dots have superior optical transmission properties compared to conventional dyes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs quantum dot-based color filtering that achieves accurate color separation and display while maintaining high light transmission efficiency. The quantum dots enable precise wavelength selection with minimal energy loss, resolving the contradiction between color display precision and light intensity preservation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

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 application of a quantum dot color filter in the polarizer improves color gamut, purity, and transmittance, resulting in better display effects and simplifies the display device structure, while avoiding interference with light polarization.

Implementation Method 1

the color filter layer includes a quantum dot... the application of a quantum dot color filter in the polarizer improves color gamut, purity, and transmittance

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight transmission and filtering: Filter (optical)

Implementation Method 2

Liquid crystal display includes a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, a color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer therebetween... avoiding interference with light polarization

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight polarization: Polarisation

Data Source

PatentUS11022836B2Polarizer and display device
Publication Date: 2021.06.01 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a polarizer and a display device. The polarizer includes a polarization layer, a color filter layer located on the polarization layer, wherein the color filter layer includes a quantum dot. The application of the polarizer provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure to the display device can increase the color gamut, the color purity, and the light utilization, thereby improving the display color quality.