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Our laptop display technologies incorporate visual output, cameras, microphones, antennas, and more. In this video, you’ll learn about some of these portable display technologies and how we use our laptop displays for much more than just viewing our computer’s output.

Most of our laptops these days use liquid crystal displays. These LCDs work by shining a light that’s on the backside of this display. And it shines through a set of liquid crystals and eventually color filters that make up the display that we see. Some of the advantages of LCD are that they are very lightweight, they use very little power, and they’re relatively inexpensive to make. So it’s perfect for a mobile device.

One of the challenges we have with LCDs is that it can be difficult to properly represent some colors, especially black. Because we’re shining a light through this display. It’s difficult to get a very, very dark pixel to show as a true black color on an LCD. These also do require that a light is behind this display. This light can be fluorescent or LED. But if we have a problem with that backlight, then we’re not going to be able to see anything on this display.

You’ll generally find two different kinds of LCD. One is the TN, or Twisted Nematic, LCD. Has very fast response times. You’ll often see this display being used by gamers. It also has a very low power draw. So it’s very good for portable devices. Unfortunately, it has a poor viewing angle. So it’s really seen best if you are looking at the display directly in front. If you’re off to the side, you may see an inverting or shifting of the color.

Another type of LCD is the IPS, or In Plane Switching, LCD. This has excellent color representation. And it doesn’t discolor or tail when you touch the device, which is great for mobile devices. Unfortunately, it’s a little more expensive to produce than the Twisted Nematic LCD.

You’ll tend to see both TN and IPS displays being used on a laptop. Just depends on exactly what model you’re getting. You tend to see the IPS and the more expensive In Plane Switching LCD on the higher end laptop computers.

With LCD technology, you must have a backlight to be able to see anything on the screen. Our older laptops used CCFL as the back light. This is a Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp. It used quite a bit of voltage– much more than the ones that we use these days. And so it used a lot more power on our laptop computers. They were also relatively thick. So we don’t really use this commonly on our laptop computers these days.

So today we use LED backlit LCD displays. You may sometimes see this written as an LED display. What that really means is that there is an LED backlight on this LCD display. This type of display usually puts LEDs either around the edge of the screen, or there might be an array of LEDs that will brighten or darken even in different areas of the screen, depending on what you’re looking at on your display. Most of the new laptops today are going to be LED backlit.

A very interesting mobile display technology is OLED. It stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode. This is a display type that emits light when you provide power to particular organic materials within the display itself. OLED displays are very light. They’re very flexible. It doesn’t require any glass on the display. So you can really fit it to a lot of different kinds of mobile technologies.

OLED also doesn’t require a backlight. So you can fit it into very small types of environments, especially on mobile devices. The organic compound itself is what’s lighting up inside the display. Unfortunately, this organic material degrades over time. Sometimes it can leave images on the screen. It’s also more costly than an LCD. So we don’t tend to see OLED being used today for our laptop computers.

On a laptop display, there are a number of different wireless antennas. For your 802.11 networks, you have a Wi-Fi main and an auxiliary antenna wire. And you also need an antenna wire for Bluetooth. These antenna wires are an important component of your LCD display, because the display is the highest point on your laptop. So you’ll find that the antenna wires are wrapping around the outside of your LCD display.

Here’s a view of these antenna wires. The keyboard on this laptop has been removed and has been placed right here. You can see underneath the keyboard is an 802.11 wireless adapter. And connected to that wireless adapter is a main and an auxiliary antenna wire. And you can see that these wires wrap around that keyboard underneath until it reaches the display. At that point, the wires go directly into the display. And they wrap around the outside to be able to get as much signal as possible.

Many laptops will include a webcam on the laptop itself so that you’re able to record video and audio and even broadcast that live across the network. If you do have a webcam on your laptop, there are probably specialized drivers for the webcam hardware. Even if you don’t have a webcam, there’s probably a microphone built into your laptop. You can see in this particular laptop there’s not only a webcam, but we can capture audio from the left and the right microphone that’s built into the display itself.

An LCD will need a backlight. And some of our older laptops are going to have fluorescent lamps inside of those computers. If you do have a fluorescent lamp, then you’re going to need an inverter that is used to be able to convert from the DC that’s inside of your laptop to the higher voltage AC that’s used by these fluorescent lamps. If your inverter fails or you have a problem what that inverter, then the lights are not going to work on the backlight.

You may need to look closely at the screen to see if you can see anything at all. You may be able to make out some of the images on the screen even if a backlight isn’t present. If you are able to see images on the screen and you’re simply not receiving any light through the screen, then you may have to replace the LCD inverter or the entire display itself.

Many of our newer laptops allow us to draw right on the display itself using a digitizer. This is where we can use something that looks very similar to a pen to write directly on the screen itself. It’s very common on some of our newer laptops or even these hybrid devices that allow you to connect and disconnect a keyboard so that you can convert between a traditional laptop view or use it as a tablet.

This article is about backlights in liquid crystal displays. For the rear window of an automobile, see Car glass. For the lighting design practice, see Backlighting (lighting design). For other uses, see Backlight (disambiguation).

A backlight is a form of illumination used in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). As LCDs do not produce light by themselves—unlike, for example, cathode ray tube (CRT), plasma (PDP) or OLED displays—they need illumination (ambient light or a special light source) to produce a visible image. Backlights illuminate the LCD from the side or back of the display panel, unlike frontlights, which are placed in front of the LCD. Backlights are used in small displays to increase readability in low light conditions such as in wristwatches,smart phones, computer displays and LCD televisions to produce light in a manner similar to a CRT display. A review of some early backlighting schemes for LCDs is given in a report Engineering and Technology History by Peter J. Wild.

Simple types of LCDs such as in pocket calculators are built without an internal light source, requiring external light sources to convey the display image to the user. Most LCD screens, however, are built with an internal light source. Such screens consist of several layers. The backlight is usually the first layer from the back. Light valves then vary the amount of light reaching the eye, by blocking its passage in some way. Most use a fixed polarizing filter and a switching one, to block the undesired light.

Backlights come in many colors. Monochrome LCDs typically have yellow, green, blue, or white backlights, while color displays use white backlights that cover most of the color spectrum.

Colored LED backlighting is most commonly used in small, inexpensive LCD panels. White LED backlighting is becoming dominant. ELP backlighting is often used for larger displays or when even backlighting is important; it can also be either colored or white. An ELP must be driven by relatively highAC power, which is provided by an inverter circuit. CCFL backlights are used on larger displays such as computer monitors, and are typically white in color; these also require the use of an inverter and diffuser. Incandescent backlighting was used by early LCD panels to achieve high brightness, but the limited life and excess heat produced by incandescent bulbs were severe limitations. The heat generated by incandescent bulbs typically requires the bulbs to be mounted away from the display to prevent damage.

For several years (until about 2010), the preferred backlight for matrix-addressed large LCD panels such as in monitors and TVs was based on a cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) by using two CCFLs at opposite edges of the LCD or by an array of CCFLs behind the LCD (see picture of an array with 18 CCFLs for a 40-inch LCD TV). Due to the disadvantages in comparison with LED illumination (higher voltage and power needed, thicker panel design, no high-speed switching, faster aging), LED backlighting is becoming more popular.

LED backlighting in color screens comes in two varieties: white LED backlights and RGB LED backlights.blue LED with broad spectrum yellow phosphor to result in the emission of white light. However, because the spectral curve peaks at yellow, it is a poor match to the transmission peaks of the red and green color filters of the LCD. This causes the red and green primaries to shift toward yellow, reducing the color gamut of the display.a red, a blue, and a green LED and can be controlled to produce different color temperatures of white. RGB LEDs for backlighting are found in high end color proofing displays such as the HP DreamColor LP2480zx monitor or selected HP EliteBook notebooks, as well as more recent consumer-grade displays such as Dell"s Studio series laptops which have an optional RGB LED display.

RGB LEDs can deliver an enormous color gamut to screens.additive color) the backlight can produce a color spectrum that closely matches the color filters in the LCD pixels themselves. In this way, the filter passband can be narrowed so that each color component lets only a very narrow band of spectrum through the LCD. This improves the efficiency of the display since less light is blocked when white is displayed. Also, the actual red, green, and blue points can be moved farther out so that the display is capable of reproducing more vivid colors.

A newNanosys, claims that the color output of the dots can be tuned precisely by controlling the size of the nanocrystals. Other companies pursuing this method are Nanoco Group PLC (UK), QD Vision, 3M a licensee of Nanosys and Avantama of Switzerland.Sony has adapted Quantum Dot technology from the US company QD Visionedge-lit LED backlight marketed under the term Triluminos in 2013. With a blue LED and optimized nanocrystals for green and red colors in front of it, the resulting combined white light allows for an equivalent or better color gamut than that emitted by a more expensive set of three RGB LEDs. At the Consumer Electronics Show 2015, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, the Chinese TCL Corporation and Sony showed QD-enhanced LED-backlighting of LCD TVs.

CCFL backlighting has also improved in this respect. Many LCD models, from cheap TN-displays to color proofing S-IPS or S-PVA panels, have wide gamut CCFLs representing more than 95% of the NTSC color specification.

There are several challenges with LED backlights. Uniformity is hard to achieve, especially as the LEDs age, with each LED aging at a different rate. Also, the use of three separate light sources for red, green, and blue means that the white point of the display can move as the LEDs age at different rates; white LEDs are also affected by this phenomenon, with changes of several hundred kelvins being recorded. White LEDs also suffer from blue shifts at higher temperatures varying from 3141K to 3222K for 10 °C to 80 °C respectively.Benq G2420HDB consumer display has a 49W consumption compared to the 24W of the LED version of the same display (G2420HDBL).

To overcome the aforementioned challenges with RGB and white LED backlights an "advanced remote phosphor" cockpit displays,Air Traffic Control displays and medical displays. This technology uses blue pump LEDs in combination with a sheet on which phosphorous luminescent materials are printed for colour conversion. The principle is similar to Quantum Dots, but the phosphors applied are much more robust than the quantum dot nano-particles for applications that require long lifetime in more demanding operational conditions. Because the phosphor sheet is placed at a distance (remote) of the LED it experiences much less temperature stress than phosphors in white LEDs. As a result, the white point is less dependent on individual LEDs, and degrading of individual LEDs over lifetime, leading to a more homogenous backlight with improved colour consistency and lower lumen depreciation.

The use of LED backlights in notebook computers has been growing. Sony has used LED backlights in some of its higher-end slim VAIO notebooks since 2005, and Fujitsu introduced notebooks with LED backlights in 2006. In 2007, Asus, Dell, and Apple introduced LED backlights into some of their notebook models. As of 2008Lenovo has also announced LED-backlit notebooks. In October 2008, Apple announced that it would be using LED backlights for all of its notebooks and new 24-inch Apple Cinema Display, and one year later it introduced a new LED iMac, meaning all of Apple"s new computer screens are now LED. Almost every laptop with a 16:9 display introduced since September 2009 uses LED-backlit panels. This is also the case for most LCD television sets, which are marketed in some countries under the misleading name LED TV, although the image is still generated by an LCD panel.

Most LED backlights for LCDs are edge-lit, i.e. several LEDs are placed at the edges of a lightguide (Light guide plate, LGP), which distributes the light behind the LC panel. Advantages of this technique are the very thin flat-panel construction and low cost. A more expensive version is called full-array or direct LED and consists of many LEDs placed behind the LC panel (an array of LEDs), such that large panels can be evenly illuminated. This arrangement allows for local dimming to obtain darker black pixels depending on the image displayed.

If the frequency of the pulse-width modulation is too low or the user is very sensitive to flicker, this may cause discomfort and eye-strain, similar to the flicker of CRT displays.

For a non-ELP backlight to produce even lighting, which is critical for displays, the light is first passed through a lightguide (Light guide plate, LGP) - a specially designed layer of plastic that diffuses the light through a series of unevenly spaced bumps. The density of bumps increases further away from the light source according to a diffusion equation. The diffused light then travels to either side of the diffuser; the front faces the actual LCD panel, the back has a reflector to guide otherwise wasted light back toward the LCD panel. The reflector is sometimes made of aluminum foil or a simple white-pigmented surface.

The LCD backlight systems are made highly efficient by applying optical films such as prismatic structure to gain the light into the desired viewer directions and reflective polarizing films that recycle the polarized light that was formerly absorbed by the first polarizer of the LCD (invented by Philips researchers Adrianus de Vaan and Paulus Schaareman),

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In electronics, an inverter can be defined as a device for converting direct current (DC) power into alternating current (AC). An example of an inverter is the adapter used in cars for converting the low voltage cigarette lighter’s power (DC) into mains equivalent voltage (AC). This allows the use of many types of household electrical devices while on the road. In a laptop, an inverter is often used to light the computer"s screen.

A laptop inverter is a small circuit board, usually about the size of a pen. Internally, a laptop runs on a low voltage, with the exception of the screen, which uses a backlit liquid crystal display (LCD). Without the inverter and the bulb it powers, the screen would be too faint to see properly. By controlling the output of the inverter, the laptop can adjust the brightness of its display. Some types of laptop inverter are able to do this automatically by using a small sensor to detect how bright the room is, and adjusting their output accordingly.

The LCDs in traditional laptops are lighted by one or two thin fluorescent bulbs that require a higher voltage than the rest of the computer. The inverter is typically housed close to the lamp, keeping its power wires as short as possible and to avoid running them through other parts of the machine unnecessarily. Less commonly, some laptops use white light emitting diodes (LEDs) to provide the backlight. These laptops do not require an inverter at all, since the LEDs can take their power directly from the laptop’s motherboard.

As with any electronic component, faults can occur in laptop inverters, especially after years of use. Common symptoms include the screen flickering on and off, the screen appearing too faint to read, and even sometimes a faint buzzing noise. It should be noted that there are other possible causes for all these symptoms, which are best diagnosed by a laptop technician or other qualified professional. If found to be faulty, the laptop inverter can usually be replaced.

Each model of laptop will have a specific inverter design, and they are generally not interchangeable. Replacing an inverter is a relatively quick and inexpensive fix, and is usually more cost effective than getting it repaired. The replacement process simply involves removing the screen bezel, unplugging the old inverter, and replacing it with the new one. A laptop inverter carries a high voltage warning, and should only be replaced by a qualified professional under static-controlled conditions.