stn vs tft display for sale

This article is introduce what is TN lcd and STN display, what is difference for FSTN and FFstn lcd? what types of lcd panel available for lcd technology? how the lcd panel display working. what is difference between FSTN and FFSTN lcd display definition? what does STN stand for? let"s see the introduction as following:

LCD is including monochrome lcd and color lcd types,monochrome lcd have TN LCD, STN LCD (yellow-green mode, blue mode, gray mode, black-white mode/FSTN,FFSTN), monochrome tft lcd. color lcd including color STN LCD and color TFT lcd types, color STN LCD (CSTN lcd) is almost phase out because it is no better than TFT in contrast, Now all CSTN LCDs were replaced by tft lcd dsiplay.

TN lcd means (twisted nematic) LCD, the namatic liquid crystal elements inside the lcd glass cell,its twisted angle is 90 degree, integrated the front and rear polarizes on the lcd, the polarized angle is also in 90 degree in cross, it control the light transmission and make the tn lcd display on and off.

STN lcd is super-twisted nematic lcd display, it is a type ofmonochrome lcd display,it is also passiveliquid crystal display(LCD). compare to TN lcd, STN LCD twist angle is 240 degree, instead of 90 degree of TN LCD, so we call it STN LCD. STN lcd have yellow-green display mode, gray,black-white mode,blue display mode,available.

The STN LCD is not only difference on twist angle in 240°, in the same time, because the liquid crystal has the double-reflective characteristic, the ambient light through the polarizer, it would change to linear polarized light, the linear polarized light go through the STN LCD cell with 240° twist angle, it would turn to oval polarized light because of the double-reflective of liquid crystal characteristic （the linear polarized light turn to two group lights via240° twist angle liquid crystal, and the two group light intervened to oval polarized light）. the oval polarized lights are always with colors, that that is the reason ofyellow-green or blue color come from for the STN LCD.

With the twist angle in 240°, it bring higherdisplay contrast as the twist angle from TN 90° to STN 240°, as see the graph as below, as the increasing about the lcd contrast in twist angle, when TN lcd can support 8 commons driver (1/8 duty), such as segment lcd, because the TN liquid crystal sharpness is less than STN LCD, if the commons higher than 8, the TN lcd contrast would be decreased dramatically. while STN lcd could support 240 commons (1/240 duty) in maximum. STN not only support 16x2, 20x4 characters lcd, and could support 128x64, 320x240 graphic lcd as well, it is all because the contrast increased due to liquid crystal"s twist angle for STN lcd.

Meanwhile, as the display contrast increased for the STN LCD, it bring wider viewing angle for STN lcd than TN lcd display. STN lcd viewing angle could be reach 120 degree, while TN lcd viewing angle around 90 degree.

FSTN lcd display mode is the profession name for black-white STN mode, it is white background and black display characters. it is the nearest color to paper in monochrome lcd, even its real background is a little near to gray. FSTN LCD mode is one of STN mode, it is mean film STN, instead of the background color to yellow-green color or blue color, FSTN LCD add a optics compensating film on the front of FSTN LCD, the optics compensating film compensate the linear polarize light and color from STN LCD, the STN LCD color turn to white background after light through the optics compensator film. that is the compensating film turn the oval polarized light to the linear polarized light again,then we could get thewhite and black lcd display. it is the display mode that near to paper.FSTN lcd is widely used in many display application because of its background.

FFSTN is FSTN LCD in negative display mode, it is also a kind of white-black stn lcd mode, FFSTN lcd is negative background with white display characters, while FSTN lcd is white background with black characters, its background would be in black, and display white characters. FSTN lcd would need one layer polarized light compensation, FFSTN would need two layers polarized light compensation on the front and rear polarizers, it would need higher cost than other STN LCD, but FFSTN LCD is best lcd soluton in STN LCD. it is higher contrast than other types of lcd.

CSTN lcd means color STN LCD, its display technology is based on FFSTN mode, but it have a RGB color filter in side the lcd glass, so it can realize to color display, and because FFSTN have high contrast, so instead lcd font display to other STN LCD, CSTN LCD is better in image display than other monochrome lcd. but CSTN lcd is still type of stn lcd, it have cross-talk effect, which decreased the contrast than TFT LCD which is active display mode without cross-talk.

Because STN lcd display is 240 degree twist angle, it have better display contrast than TN display in 90 degree twist angle. the STN display could support the 1/240 duty lcd, that with 480 segment x240 common graphic lcd. and the TN lcd only support 1/8 duty with 8 commons maximum. so TN lcd is mainly used in segment lcd display or icon lcd display. STN display is mainly used in graphic lcd display. of course, if STN lcd is also can be used segment lcd display or icon lcd display, but its cost would be around double than TN lcd display.

STN LCD display require less power and are less expensive to manufacture than,STN displays typically has lower image quality and slowerresponse timecompare than TFT displays. and tft lcd display is mainly in color display, but STN LCDs have the advantage that it can be made purely reflective for viewing under direct sunlight. STN LCD is a good choice for sunlight readable display in outdoor, for it has a display effect in outdoor and less power consumption. such as transflective STN lcd or reflective STN LCD, it can be display good without backlight light on.

TFT (thin film transistor)is still one kinds of lcd, but it active matrix lcd which without cross-talk with higher contrast than STN LCD or monochrome TN LCD. because of the thin film transistor inside, it is without cross-talk problem, and easily to get the high contrast. besides IPS tft, most of tft lcd is still TN LCD display mode, that is 90 degree twist angle to the liquid crystal.

Pacer offers an extensive range of colour TFT LCD panels from 1.8″ through the popular 3.5″ and 5.7″ sizes to 82″. Our range includes sunlight readable panels from 5.6″ to 70″, bar cut panels, and SMART TFT displays with built-in control. We offer TFT displays with high brightness, high contrast ratio, wide viewing angle, wide temperature operation, longer lamp life, and lower power consumption.

TFT displays are used extensively in many industrial, commercial and scientific applications, including ATMs, POS terminals, kiosks, security systems, lottery and gambling gaming machines, medical equipment, factory automation, digital advertisement signage, transportation information, and marine equipment.

TFT technology is being used to replace Mono LCD in many applications, and Raystar Optronics now offers a 5.2″ TFT module designed specifically to fit the footprint of the industry standard RG24064-series 240×64 mono graphic STN LCD. The RFS520A can replace traditional STN displays of 8×2 or 16×2 format as it shares the same 16 pin footprint.

Our TFT modules are fully supported with a variety of options including wide operating temperatures, high brightness and contrast, built-in DC-DC and temperature compensation circuitry and most with white LED backlights. Resistive Touchscreens and Projected Capacitive Touchscreens are available for most models. Many panels can be configured as a kit – see our Interface Kits page for more details.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT – Mitsubishi has decided to end production of TFT-LCD modules, as the company is no longer able to maintain the products’ competitiveness after significant price falls in the global market. Production of TFT-LCD modules is scheduled to end in June 2022 with a Last Time Buy date of June 2021. Please contact us as soon as possible to discuss last time buy or identification of suitable alternative displays.

Raystar is a professional TFT (Thin Film Transistor) module manufacturer. Whether you need a TFT display with control board, high brightness, wide viewing angle, monochrome or bar type, we have TFT active matrix display models for you to choose from.

LITEMAX® Industrial Display solution provide a wide range of reliable displays from 5.7″ to 85″ including LCD panel modules, open frame LCD displays, outdoor displays, and panel mount monitors. LITEMAX have developed and focused on LCD display technologies such as high brightness technology, optical bonding solutions, and color enhancement technology that bring more add-on value to enhance their products.

In market, LCD means passive matrix LCDs which increase TN (Twisted Nematic), STN (Super Twisted Nematic), or FSTN (Film Compensated STN) LCD Displays. It is a kind of earliest and lowest cost display technology.

LCD screens are still found in the market of low cost watches, calculators, clocks, utility meters etc. because of its advantages of low cost, fast response time (speed), wide temperature range,  low power consumption, sunlight readable with transflective or reflective polarizers etc.  Most of them are monochrome LCD display and belong to passive-matrix LCDs.

TFT LCDs have capacitors and transistors. These are the two elements that play a key part in ensuring that the TFT display monitor functions by using a very small amount of energy without running out of operation.

Normally, we say TFT LCD panels or TFT screens, we mean they are TN (Twisted Nematic) Type TFT displays or TN panels, or TN screen technology. TFT is active-matrix LCDs, it is a kind of LCD technologies.

TFT has wider viewing angles, better contrast ratio than TN displays. TFT display technologies have been widely used for computer monitors, laptops, medical monitors, industrial monitors, ATM, point of sales etc.

Actually, IPS technology is a kind of TFT display with thin film transistors for individual pixels. But IPS displays have superior high contrast, wide viewing angle, color reproduction, image quality etc. IPS screens have been found in high-end applications, like Apple iPhones, iPads, Samsung mobile phones, more expensive LCD monitors etc.

Both TFT LCD displays and IPS LCD displays are active matrix displays, neither of them can produce color, there is a layer of RGB (red, green, blue) color filter in each LCD pixels to make LCD showing colors. If you use a magnifier to see your monitor, you will see RGB color. With switch on/off and different level of brightness RGB, we can get many colors.

Neither of them can’t release color themselves, they have relied on extra light source in order to display. LED backlights are usually be together with them in the display modules as the light sources. Besides, both TFT screens and IPS screens are transmissive, it will need more power or more expensive than passive matrix LCD screens to be seen under sunlight.  IPS screens transmittance is lower than TFT screens, more power is needed for IPS LCD display.

means Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Display. It is the first commercial success LCD technology which is still widely used in low cost and low power consumption applications. Of course, we mean it passive TN LCDs.

If TN technology combined with TFT (Thin Film Transistor), it becomes active matrix display which is widely available for full color display market. Because the name of TN is very technical, when we hear TFT display which we know it is for short of TN type TFT LCD displays. How TN display technology works, showing in Fig.1.

STN LCD means Super Twist Nematic Liquid Crystal Display. TN LCD displays have the advantage of low cost and low power consumption, but it also has its intrinsic disadvantages, such as narrow viewing angle, poor contrast and limit to be used in high multiplex (duty) application.

They can only be used for some alphanumeric displays. Scientists and engineers invented STN LCD to overcome the limitation of TN LCD to make high duty graphic LCD display possible.

Compared with TN LCD’s 90otwist degree, STN LCD increases the twist to 180oto 270o. With this change, STN display’s electro-optical performance changes greatly. See Fig. 2.

Japanese scientists and engineers used a layer of retardation film to compensate the color to make STN color changing to Black and White. Monochrome black and white FSTN makes CSTN (Color STN) possible.

Compared with TN displays, FSTN displays have much higher contrast and wider viewing angles. But FSTN technology are only limited to passive matrix application. They can’t be used together with TFT technology like TN technology to become active matrix displays.

As FSTN LCDs can be made high density together with COG (Chip on Glass) technology, the FSTN display modules can be made high compact to make thin and light possible.

Slower response time because of larger twist angles. The normal operating temperature range is -20oC to +70oC. The color is also changed with temperature, the improvement way is to use DSTN (double STN cells) which can compensate for the color changes and achieve high contrast ratio at low and high temperature.

The same as other LCDs, FSTN LCDs can’t emit the light themselves. They have to assembled with backlight to make them LCD display modules to be able to use in applications. But backlight will drive a lot of power.

This type of LCD was invented at the Brown Boveri Research Center, Baden, Switzerland, in 1983.twisted nematic (TN) LCDs with a 90 degrees twisted structure of the molecules have a contrast vs. voltage characteristic unfavorable for passive-matrix addressing as there is no distinct threshold voltage. STN displays, with the molecules twisted from 180 to 270 degrees, have superior characteristics.

The main advantage of STN LCDs is their more pronounced electro-optical threshold allowing for passive-matrix addressing with many more lines and columns. For the first time, a prototype STN matrix display with 540x270 pixels was made by Brown Boveri (today ABB) in 1984, which was considered a breakthrough for the industry.

STN LCDs require less power and are less expensive to manufacture than TFT LCDs, another popular type of LCD that has largely superseded STN for mainstream laptops. STN displays typically suffer from lower image quality and slower response time than TFT displays. However, STN LCDs can be made purely reflective for viewing under direct sunlight. STN displays are used in some inexpensive mobile phones and informational screens of some digital products. In the early 1990s, they had been used in some portable computers such as Amstrad"s PPC512 and PPC640, and in Nintendo"s Game Boy.

CSTN (color super-twist nematic) is a color form for electronic display screens originally developed by Sharp Electronics. The CSTN uses red, green and blue filters to display color. The original CSTN displays developed in the early 1990s suffered from slow response times and ghosting (where text or graphic changes are blurred because the pixels cannot turn off and on fast enough). Recent advances in the technology, however, have made CSTN a viable alternative to active matrix displays. New CSTN displays offer 100ms response times (for comparison TFT displays offer 8ms or less), a 140 degree viewing angle and high-quality color rivaling TFT displays – all at about half the cost. A newer passive-matrix technology called High-Performance Addressing (HPA) offers even better response times and contrast than CSTN.

Samsung had two proprietary technologies for STN LCDs, Ultra Fine & Bright (UFB), which delivered wide viewing angle (about 120 degrees), faster response time (about 60 ms) and less power consumption, while Ultra Fine & High Speed (UFS), delivered almost same color depths as TFT LCDs, greater color purity, much faster response time (about 14 ms) and same contrast ratio as TFT LCDs.

Dual Scan STN: An enhanced STN passive matrix LCD. The screen is divided into halves, and each half is scanned simultaneously, thereby doubling the number of lines refreshed per second and providing a sharper appearance. DSTN was widely used on earlier laptops. See STN and LCD.

FSTN: Film compensated STN, Formulated STN or Filtered STN. A passive matrix LCD technology that uses a film compensating layer between the STN display and rear polarizer for added sharpness and contrast. It was used in laptops before the DSTN method became popular and many early 21st Century cellphones.

CCSTN: Color Coded Super Twist Nematic. An LCD capable of displaying a limited range of colours, used in some digital organisers and graphic calculators in the 1990s

Scheffer, T. J.; Nehring, J. (1984-11-15). "A new, highly multiplexable liquid crystal display". Applied Physics Letters. AIP Publishing. 45 (10): 1021–1023. Bibcode:1984ApPhL..45.1021S. doi:10.1063/1.95048. ISSN 0003-6951.

A segment display is the type of thing you see in gas pumps, calculators, or simple meters. It can usually show a few numeric digits and perhaps a few icons or symbols.

These displays are typically used where a very low cost is needed and fixed function display is acceptable. Unless you are making 10K units a month of a very simple, very low-cost device, a segment LCD is probably not the answer.

If you have any questions about these types of displays or would like help choosing the type of display module would work best for your project, please contact our knowledgeable and friendly support staff by email, phone, or chat.

From their discovery in 1888 to their first application within displays in the 1960s, liquid crystals have become a mainstream material choice with many impactful applications in the world of electronics.

As the key component behind liquid crystal displays (LCD), these materials change light polarization to create vibrant, high-resolution images on digital screens. The growth of LCD technology has helped propel the larger display panel market enormously, with industry valuation projected to reach $178.20 billion by 2026.

A prolific variety of LCD types has been developed to best meet their exact use-cases and end-environments. Displays may be optimized for power consumption, contrast ratio, color reproduction, optimal viewing angle, temperature range, cost, and more.

Passive Matrix LCDs offer a cost advantage (both parts and tooling) and are highly customizable. The counterpart to Passive Matrix displays are Active Matrix displays.

Furthermore, the processes used for manufacturing Active-Matrix LCDs can create much finer details on the electrode structure. This allows splitting each pixel in three sub-pixels with different color. This together with the better voltage control allows full color displays.

The transistor switches used in Active Matrix Displays must not protrude significantly above the surface of the display substrates lest they might interfere with a uniform liquid crystal layer thickness. They must be implemented in thin films of suitable materials. Hence, the name Thin Film Transistors (TFT). While AM and TFT have a different meaning, they are often used interchangeably to indicate a higher performance display.

TFTs can be formed by amorphous silicon (denoted α-Si TFT), by poly-crystalline silicon (LTPS for Low Temperature Poly Silicon), or by semiconducting metal oxides (Ox-TFT or IGZO-TFT for Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide).

Currently the most common Electronics Display Technology on the market is LCD technology and among LCD technologies, TFT display technology is the most widely used across consumer applications (laptops, tablets, TVs, Mobile phones, etc.) as well as many industrial, automotive, and medical applications.

As the first commercially successful LCD technology, Passive Matrix Twisted Nematic (TN) LCDs use a 90° twist of the nematic LC fluid between two polarizers to display information. The twist of the LC fluid either blocks light from passing through the LCD cell or allows light to pass, depending on the applied voltage. The applied voltage changes the twisted nematic orientation into an orientation that does not change the polarization of tight. This is called the TN effect.

TN displays can be normally white (NW) when they use two orthogonal liner polarizers or normally black (NB) when parallel linear polarizers are used. ‘Normally’ refers to what happens when no voltage is applied.

Initially, Passive TN LCDs were used in segmented, icon, or character displays where an image element was turned “on” and “off” depending on how the fluid was driven. Improvements were made along the way to address the limited viewing angle of TN technology, which can suffer from contrast loss or even inversion at shallow angles.

It can be advantageous to twist the director of the nematic phase a bit more than 90 degrees, but less than 180 degrees. Displays like this are a subset of TN displays and are sometimes caller Hyper Twisted Nematic Displays.

The numbers of rows or icons that can be addressed in a TN display without Active Matrix addressing is very limited. This is related to how strongly the liquid crystal responds to the applied voltage. Twisting the LC nematic fluid more than 180 degrees (typically between 210 and 270 degrees) causes the display to require a much smaller voltage difference between on and off pixels. This in turn allows addressing of many more rows without an active matrix. Displays with a twist between 210 and 270 degrees are called Super Twisted Nematic displays.

The higher display resolution of STN displays comes at a price. The optical effect is no longer neutrally black and white as in a TN display. Rather these displays are naturally yellow and black or blue and white. The color can be somewhat compensated with colored polarizers, but that comes at the expense of brightness and contrast.

The color in STN displays is caused by birefringence. Adding the same birefringence in the opposite direction can compensate for the effect. Initially this was done by stacking two STN displays on top of each other. This is referred to as Double STN or DSTN, but this is of course thicker and more expensive.

The birefringence of an STN display can be approximated with a stretched transparent plastic film. Adding such a film to an STN display instead of the 2nd STN display is a lot more attractive and has almost the same performance. This is referred to as a Film Compensated STN display (FSTN, or sometimes if two films are used as FFSTN).

FSTN displays are used commonly in consumer, medical and industrial display applications that require low cost and do not need high resolution images or full color.

Another development to the TN display was to use the same concept as in FSTN displays on TN displays. However, the film cannot just be a stretched polymer. Instead, a twisted liquid crystal structure is made and polymerized into a film that is used as a compensation film for TN displays. As this method mostly improves the display characteristics at shallow viewing angles while preserving the excellent performance in straight on viewing, this technology is called Wide View Twisted Nematic (WVTN).

The above display technologies have liquid crystal molecules that are aligned nearly parallel to the display surface with more or less twisting when going from one substrate to the other. In VA (also called VAN) displays, the liquid crystal molecules are aligned vertically with respect to the display surface. Applying a voltage causes the molecules to lay flat, with or without twist.

The advantage of this arrangement is a very dark black state with very little light leakage. This allows making displays with a black mask and colored icons or symbols. These displays look like color displays with brilliant colors, however each image element or icon can only have its assigned color or black.

Due to the ability in AM displays to address one row while the other rows are isolated, the demands on the electro-optical performance of the Liquid Crystal Configuration are less stringent. In principle, all the above mentioned configurations can be used in AM displays. In practice, TN, and WVTN are frequently used as well as some versions of VA technology described below. (MVA, AIFF-MVA, PVA, ASV).

The advantage of these technologies is a much wider and more symmetrical viewing angle along with the elimination of the contrast inversion (or color shift) seen in TN TFT LCDs when viewed from various angles. IPS and FFS displays also are less sensitive to pressure, which is a big advantage in touchscreen displays.

Here, each color sub-pixel is further divided into zones (called domains) having a different direction of the molecular movement when voltage is applied. Again, the purpose is a much wider and more symmetric viewing performance and the elimination of color shifts and contrast inversion at shallow angles. MVA technology achieves that with carefully designed protrusions on the inside surfaces of the display, while PVA uses fine patterning of the electrodes on both substrates.

The integrated circuit is a patterned piece of silicon or other type of semiconducting material. A modern IC contains millions or even billions of tiny transistors. Their tiny size allows for the fabrication of smaller, faster, more efficient, and less expensive electronic circuits. The driver chips addressing electronics displays are ICs.

Often PCBAs are connected to the display with flexible printed circuits. It’s also possible to mount all necessary components on FPCs without the need of a PCBA in the display module.

Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) is an interface to the display, not a display technology itself. This technology is not specific to displays, as it’s used in many other applications as well. It’s a high-speed signal that provides some noise immunity for the display. It also allows for longer distances compared to parallel interfaces.

As display resolutions increase, data transmission rates must increase as well. At high frequencies, single-ended signaling circuits can begin to act as antennas to radiate and receive radiated noise. Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) addresses many of these shortcomings by using differential signaling at low voltages to transmit display data at high speeds.

Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI®) is a high-speed Display Serial Interface (DSI) between the host processor and the display module. It has a low pin count, high bandwidth, and low Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI), and is commonly used in cameras, cell phones and tablets.

New Vision Display (NVD) has decades of experience designing and manufacturing custom display and touch panel assemblies for some of the world’s largest original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the automotive, medical, industrial, and consumer markets.

NVD’s state-of-the-art factories are equipped to build solutions using a wide range of display and touch technologies. To view our extensive portfolio, visit our Products Page.

With industry-leading certifications and expert engineers on staff, NVD can handle your design needs, even for the most rigorous and complex end environments. To learn more about what makes us the display manufacturer for your needs, contact us today.

AZ Display’s new Monochrome TFT Module Solution ATM2412B (8 Bit Parallel) and ATM2412BS (SPI interface) series offer companies previously using a monochrome LCD (it fits most 240 x 128 pixel Monochrome Graphic LCD Modules) a way to update to the bold look of a TFT module without reprogramming the complete software and changing major components of the assembly.

ATM2412B and ATM2412BS interface like a traditional monochrome Graphic LCD Module, but perform like a TFT module (mono color). Content is brought to the display using the RA6963 controller.

LCD is the abbreviation for liquid crystal display. An LCD basically consists of two glass plates with a special liquid between them. The special attribute of this liquid is that it rotates or “twists” the plane of polarized light. This effect is influenced by the creation of an electrical field. The glass plates are thus each coated with a very thin metallic film. To obtain polarized light, you apply a polarization foil, the polarizer, to the bottom glass plate. Another foil must be applied to the bottom glass plate, but this time with a plane of polarization twisted by 90°. This is referred to as the analyzer.

In the idle state, the liquid twists the plane of polarization of the incoming light by 90° so that it can pass the analyzer unhindered. The LCD is thus transparent. If a specific voltage is applied to the metallic film coating, the crystals rotate in the liquid. This twists the plane of polarization of the light by another 90°, for example: The analyzer prevents the light getting through, and the LCD thus becomes opaque.TN, STN, FSTN, blue mode, yellow-green mode

Liquids that twist the plane of polarized light by 90° are referred to as TN (Twisted Nematic). STN (Super Twisted Nematic) liquids twist the plane of polarized light by at least 180°. This gives the display improved contrast. However, this technology does color the display to a certain extent. The most common colors are referred to as yellow-green and blue mode. There is also a gray mode, which in practice is more blue than gray, however.

In order to counteract the undesired color effect, the FSTN technology uses an additional foil on the outer side, but this causes a loss of light and means that this technology is only effective with lit displays.

However, the different colors occur only in displays that are either not lit or that are lit with white light. If there is any color in the lighting (e.g. yellow-green LED lighting), it overrides the color of the display. A blue-mode LCD with yellow-green LED lighting will always appear yellow-green.Static or multiplex driving method

Small displays with a small viewing area are generally statically driven. Static displays have the best contrast and the largest possible angle of view. The TN technology fulfills its purpose to the full here (black and white display, reasonably priced). The bigger displays get, however, the more lines become necessary in static operation (e.g. graphics 128x64=8192 segments =8192 lines). Since there is not enough space on either the display or a driver IC for so many lines, multiplexing is used. The display is thus divided up into rows and columns, and there is a segment at each intersection (128+64=192 lines). Scanning takes place row by row (64x, in other words a multiplex rate of 1:64). Because only 1 row is ever active at any one time, however, the contrast and the angle of view suffer the higher the multiplex rate becomes. This makes it essential to use STN.Angle of view 6°°/12°°

Every LCD has a preferred angle of view at which the contrast of the display is at its optimum. Most displays are produced for the 6°° angle of view, which is also known as the bottom view (BV). This angle corresponds to that of a pocket calculator that is lying flat on a desktop.

12°° displays (top view, TV) are best built into a table-top unit. All displays can be read vertically from the front.Reflective, transflective, transmissive

However, the lighting also determines the optical impression made by the display, and the display mode; blue or yellow-green – does not always have an influence. Below you can see the EAP162-3N display with different types of lighting by way of example:Lighting

Standard LCDs have a temperature range of 0 to +50°C. High-temperature displays are designed for operation in the range from -20 to +70°C. In this case, however, additional supply voltage is generally required. Since the contrast of any LCD is dependent on the temperature, a special temperature-compensation circuit is needed in order to use the entire temperature range, and this is particularly true for high-temperature displays (-20 to +70°C). Manual adjustment is possible but rather impractical for the user.

However, the storage temperature of a display should never be exceeded under any circumstances. An excessively high temperature can destroy the display very quickly. Direct exposure to the sun, for example, can destroy an LCD: This is because an LCD becomes darker (in positive mode) as it gets hotter. As it gets darker, it absorbs more light and converts it to heat. As a result, the display becomes even hotter and darker... In this way, temperatures of over 100°C can quickly be reached.Dot-matrix, graphics and 7-segment displays

The first LCDs were 7-segment displays, and they are still found today in simple pocket calculators and digital watches. 7 segments allow all of the digits from 0 to 9 to be displayed.

Text displays require what is known as a dot matrix, an area consisting of 5x7=35 dots, in order to display all of the letters in the alphabet as well as various special characters. Graphics displays have a similar structure to text displays. In this case, however, there are no spaces between the lines and characters.Display drivers and controllers

The semiconductor industry now offers a very large range of LCD drivers. We generally distinguish between pure display drivers without intelligence of their own, controllers with a display memory and possibly a character set, and micro-controllers with integrated LC drivers.

Pure display drivers work in a similar way to a shift register. They generally have a serial input. They require an external pulse, and in multiplex operation with high frequency they require new display data continuously in order to achieve a refresh frequency that is as high as possible (MSM5219, UPD7225, HD44100, LC7942, etc.). An example of a genuine controller is theHD44780 for dot-matrix displays: Once it has received the ASCII code, the controller manages its character set, memory and multiplexing entirely on its own. The following controllers are widely used for graphics displays: HD61202/3, HD61830, SED1520, SED1330, T6963.

Many ask themselves, "What is the difference between an LCD display and a TFT-display?" or "What is the difference between a TFT and an OLED display?". Here are these 3 sometimes extremely different display technologies briefly explained. LCD vs. TFT vs. OLED (comparison).

- The LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is a passive display technology. The operation and the structure are described above. Passive means that an LCD can only darken or let out light. So it always depends on ambient light or a backlight. This can be an advantage because the power consumption of a LCD display is very, very low. Sometimes even less than the accumulated power consumption of an E-paper display, which in static operation requires absolutely no energy to maintain the content. To change the contents, however, a relatively large amount of power is required for an E-paper display.

LCDs can also be reflective, so they reflect incident light and are therefore legible even at maximum brightness (sunlight, surgical lighting). Compared to TFT and also OLED, they have an unbeatable advantage in terms of readability and power consumption :; the "formula" is: Sunlight = LCD.

- A TFT-display (of Thin-Film Transistor) is usually a color display (RGB). From the construction and the technology it corresponds to the LCD. It is also passive, so it needs a backlight. This is in any case necessary except for a few, very expensive constructions. However, a TFT needs much more light than the monochrome relatives, because the additional structures on the glass as well as the additional color filters "swallow" light. So TFTs are not particularly energy-efficient, but can display in color and at the same time the resolution is much higher.

- OLED displays (by Organic-Light-Emitting-Diode) are as the name implies active displays - every pixel or sign generates light. This achieves an extremely wide viewing angle and high contrast values. The power consumption is dependent on the display content. Here OLEDs to TFTs and LCDs differ significantly, which have a nearly constant power consumption even with different display contents. Unfortunately, the efficiency of converting the electric current into light energy is still very poor. This means that the power consumption of OLEDs with normal content is sometimes higher than that of a TFT with the same size. Colored OLEDs are increasingly used in consumer devices, but for the industry, due to their availability and lifetime, currently only monochrome displays are suitable (usually in yellow color).

In the reaction time, the OLEDs beat each TFT and LCD by worlds. Trise and Tfall are about 10μs, which would correspond to a theoretical refresh rate of 50,000 Hz. Possibly an advantage in very special applications.

Finally the question "What is better, LCD, OLED or TFT?" Due to the physical differences you can not answer that blanket. Depending on the application, there are pros and cons to each individual technology. In addition to the above differences, there are many more details in the design and construction that need to be individually illuminated for each device. Write us an e-mail or call us: we have specialists with some 20- and 30-year experience. We are happy to compare different displays together with you.AACS and IPS technology

Are there LCD monitors for sale that use old technology from the 90s? TFT laptop displays had narrow viewing angles and 100ms refresh rates. STN displays weren’t even color but they were sunlight viewable. And everything was low resolution. Fun! Can I buy one to connect to my computer? Just plug in an HDMI cable and go?

Likewise, if you can pinout the ribbon connector of a laptop display to a modern interface, there are still old and busted ... legacy... laptops on eBay/ thriftshops.

One issue with older used monitors is not the LCD but some internal capacitors that do not age well. What that means is a dimmer display. So beware, but if you find a monitor you love it"s possible it could be fixed by some that can solder circuit boards. (my one attempt failed:) Also, HDMI LOL, older monitors may only have a VGA port.

The middleground between HDMI and VGA would be DVI, which started becoming common in the early 2000s. HDMI to DVI is quite easy. VGA is definitely more verisimilitude and brings with it the exciting challenge of trying to get an analog scanline signal to correctly line up with the discrete pixels of the LCD display. If you want some blurring to go with your terrible viewing angles and bizarro colors, go VGA.

For a while, you could get these: Pixel Qi 10" Display with Controller- 1024x600 HDMI/VGA/NTSC/PAL. They use the dual colour/reflective LCD that was used in the (dreadful) OLPC. The reflective mode, however, is a thing of great beauty and has never been equalled in modern screens.

Vintage LCD screens, if you can find them, won"t be in great shape. As mentioned earlier, the display capacitors will likely be shot. If they have a backlight, it"ll be an old fluorescent type, which will have faded and is classed as hazardous waste: fun! Finally, the display may have succumbed to "screen pest", a (perhaps moisture-related) fading of the edges of the screen which makes it progressively harder to read. A couple of my old PowerBooks have it, and it"s quite distressing

Newegg lists some TFT displays as being in stock. There are also still a lot of TN panels out there, many high refresh rate gaming monitors use them. They"ll have viewing angles somewhere between TFT and IPS in my experience.

Winstar offers a wide range of standard and total/semi custom design LCD module displays and PMOLED display modules. Our LCM modules product lines are including monochrome TN/STN/FSTN character module LCD and graphic LCD modules, COG LCD, FSC-LCD, VATN LCM module, TFT LCM LCD, PMOLED display, and Embedded System. Winstar technical team can support customers total custom solutions and a wide range of semi custom including add connectors, ZIF, FPC, touch panel, and interconnect solutions and development control boards and System Integrated Solutions.

Related Products Link : Touch Screen Display , Resistive Display, Capacitive Touch Display, Projected Capacitive Touch Panel, TFT IPS , IPS LCD, TFT Color Display , For HDMI Signal TFT Display , RGB LCD , I2C LCD Display, Square LCD Display, SPI OLED , I2C OLED, SSD1306 OLED Display, Mini Display, Micro Display, OLED Touch Display, Monochrome Display, Bar LCD Display.

An LCD is a fluidic display device that uses a crystalline filled liquid to manipulate a rear illumination polarized source by means of an electrostatic field between two thin transparent metal conductors such as indium tin oxide (ITO) in order to present an image to the viewer. This process can be used to configure custom ITO pattern as icons, segments or pixelated display devices. Both of these display design configurations can be used with static or multiplex electronic drive schemas.

STN (Super Twisted Nematic): – Allows for crystal rotation of the LCD molecules from one plane to the other of greater than 90 but less than 360 degrees.

CSTN (Color STN): – Addition of three separate Red, Green, and Blue color filters to form individual color pixels that produce hues required for a color display.