diy transparent lcd display factory

The transparent display we offer for sale (CFAL12856A0-0151) is an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display. OLED displays produce images by emitting light in the corresponding color. To produce black in a normal OLED, the pixels are simply turned off. With the transparent display, if the pixels are turned off, the display is transparent rather than black.

We’ve heard from a few customers requests for transparent displays with black graphics as well as requests for larger transparent displays. This guide will walk you through creating a transparent display out of a graphic LCD.

A few caveats before we get much farther. First, doing this will definitely void your warranty on the display. Second, the display we’ll create is significantly less transparent than a transparent OLED displayas you can see in the above image with the hacked transparent display on the left and the transparent OLED on the right.

Using the x-acto knife, get between the back polarizer and the display and pull the transflective polarizer off of the display. Unlike our pictured engineer, you should wear some hand protection to keep your fingers safe.

Rotate the display relative to the polarizer until you find the optimal transparency. This is why it’s important to use a larger polarizer so the polarizer can accommodate the display at any angle.

If you harvested a polarizer from an existing display it already has adhesive on it and you can simply carefully adhere it to the display. Take care while applying the polarizer or bubbles will form between the display and the polarizer.

When cutting the polarizer near the tail, be aware that there are traces connecting the tail to the display and cutting these traces will ruin your display.

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A wide variety of 5 inch transparent lcd display options are available to you, such as original manufacturer, odm and agency.You can also choose from tft, ips and standard 5 inch transparent lcd display,

LCD Transparent Displays, transparent screens, transparent monitors, see through screens, transparent touch screen technology, and kits from CDS as we have our own range of transparent screens / displays and transparent video screens manufactured for us, and as we control the manufacturing, we can not only offer more sizes than anyone else in the world, but also guarantee stable supply, long term availability LCDs with amazing quality.  We have replaced the Samsung Transparent Displays / see through Displays and LG Transparent OLEDs that are no longer available!

CDS has increased the use of these see through screens / see through displays / see through computer screens / clear monitors across the world including touchscreen computer screens combined with the transparent LCD touch screens and Transparent OLED displays.

The transparent LCD is a kind of LCD screen that you can see through it when it’s working. You can read the information on the screen and see what’s behind it at the same time. Such a screen is not a new technology. It’s a branch of the traditional screen which has been more than 20 years.

The biggest difference between a transparent LCD and with traditional LCD screen is its light transmittance is higher. In theory, the higher the light transmittance, the better the effect that you can see through the screen.

The transparent LCD is the core part of the transparent monitor. It can not emit light by itself, so the backlight is essential when it’s working. If you don’t like the backlight, then what we recommend is the transparent OLED.

The transparent LCD is widely used in lots of applications, for example, video walls, vending machines, display boxes, and others. It usually is used with a touch screen. Such LCD with touch screen is interactive and interesting.

The transparent LCD  is made by a daily used liquid crystal display screen. Such a product is an LCD panel without an LED backlight. It has a proper name which is called open cell LCD panel. It doesn’t have a frame and the thickness is just about 1.4mm.

The transparent LCD has many custom features, such as size, resolution, and so on. If you want to use the such product normally, there are also some details that you need to pay attention to.

Plenty of clients buy a such product from us, but they can not use them or sell it to their customers right now when they get them. That’s because the transparent LCD is just a semi-finished product. Most of the clients need to install it on their machines.

GECEY can provide the full sizes of the transparent LCD. Please don’t worry about there is not having the proper size for your application. The most commonly used resolution of such a screen is 1920 x 1080 (FHD). If you need the 4K resolution( 3840 x 2160 ), please feel free to contact us first.

The transparent LCD has a professional name which is called open cell panel. You can see its appearance in the picture on the left below. It looks like a black panel with a driver board. The picture on the right below is its internal structure. We can see that the structure is complex. It contains two polarizers, two glass substrates, liquid crystals, and so on.

The reason why we introduce the polarizer is that it can greatly influence the light transmittance and brightness of the screen. For the manufacturer, we usually change the polarizer to improve the light transmittance. The production process requires special workplaces, skilled workers, special materials, and special care. This is because the transparent LCD is very fragile and easy to be damaged.

Light transmittance is a very important parameter for transparent LCD. The higher the transmittance, the higher the brightness, and the more you can see the product behind the screen.

How much is the light transmittance of the common screen? The picture below is the SPEC of the AUO 32” open cell panel the model is T320HVN05.6 CELL. From the picture, we can see it’s 6.5%. If you check the SPEC of LCD screens which are from super manufacturers, such as Samsung, LG, AUO, and so on, you can find the transmittance of them is around 6.5%.

However, 6.5% is not enough for the transparent LCD display. So it’s essential to change the polarizer. Some special materials and polarizers are needed. The process is not easy, especially the big sizes. If the operation is wrong, the screen will be damaged.

The super manufacturers of open-cell panels will not do this for you. The process is finished by the manufacturer of a transparent LCD. So, finding a professional manufacturer is very necessary, if you want to buy some.

LED backlight: LCD can not emit light by itself. So it needs the backlight so that you can see through when it’s working. For details, please see the rest content.

Controller: Same with the common LCD panel, it needs the controller to work. The controller receives the signal from the computer or U disk and sends it to the panel, then the panel can display the letters, pictures, and others.

Glass: The glass is used to protect the transparent LCD. Although glass is not essential, it’s used in most applications. The LCD screen is glued on one surface of the glass.

Frame: The frame is essential. It’s used to hold the LCD screen, glass, backlight, control board, and other parts. Some clients need their supplier to make the frame for them, some others can make it by themselves.

First of all, you need to make a LED backlighting system for it. Maybe your products are display boxes, cabinets, vending machines, and others. Whatever they are, the most important is to design a space for the backlight.

The LED strips are driven by a small controller so that they can work in sync with the transparent LCD. The LED backlight panel can also be used to make the backlight system. The key points are the light of the space should be bright and even enough.

Second, the transparent LCD is not suitable for playing pictures or videos with complex colors. The large area of complex colors will affect your to see through the screen. It would be hard to see the products behind the screen clearly. Please keep most areas of the LCD to play white color.

When the screen displays white, it’s the most perfect condition to watch the product behind it. So, when you make the pictures or videos, please keep the background to be white. Just use the transparent LCD to play the introductions or videos with simple color.

First, the transparent LCD can not emit light by itself. Second, the space around the screen can be divided into two parts: the dark area which is in front of the screen, and the bright area with backlight which is behind the screen. People can see through from the dark area to the bright area, but they can’t see through from the opposite direction.

Most of the transparent LCDs we exported are frameless. The clients have the frame and can install the product by themselves. If you don’t have the frame, then we can also make it for you. Most of the frames are made of aluminum and iron plate. The aluminum frames are light, strong, and easy to be produced. The frames have many custom features, such as sizes, thicknesses, and so on.

Plenty of clients want to use the transparent LCD to modify their products and they just need only one piece. For example, the LCD side panel PC case is very popular. There is a transparent screen on one side of the PC case. You can see the inside of the PC and play the videos you love at the same time.

Such a case for gaming looks very amazing so lots of people want to have one. However, it’s hard for them to find a supplier to buy just one piece of transparent LCD and it would take a long time to get one. So, they want to DIY by themselves.

There are some guides online that teach people to use a common monitor to DIY a transparent LCD. For example, use the screen of a second computer monitor to make one. The simple process is to remove most parts of the LCD panel of the monitor, leaving only the LCD screen( open cell), then install some LED strips and the open cell on their PC case.

Does it work? Yes, but there are many problems in the DIY process. First of all, you need to be very careful in the DIY process. The LCD open-cell glass is very fragile. There are several flexible PCB cables at the bottom of the screen. If either of them is damaged, then the screen can not work normally.

Second, the transmittance of the screen that you DIY is much lower than the professional transparent LCD. So the final effect is not as good as you think. There are also some other problems, for example, you need to put one tempered glass to protect the LCD screen. We recommend buying one transparent LCD directly.

Recently Shenzhen Metro Line 6, Line 10, Beijing Metro Line 6 train glass window, the news of the emergence of transparent display is quite eye-catching, these transparent display and the window into one not only can display the weather, site information, but also Internet access, watch videos, shopping online stores.

Transparent displays can find many applications outside of televisions. Especially for a supplier such as LG, which itself is much more interested in areas such as outdoor billboards, or information display panels in companies and museums, than in televisions themselves.

The past decades of cell phone development history can also be seen, whether it is a transparent display, or transparent keyboard, such materials related to transparency in cell phones is not much, the actual landing of the product is only a handful.

Talk about the application of transparent screens on cell phones. You do not say, in the era of feature phones, cell phone manufacturers have really used transparent materials to do some niche devices.

The last time a transparent display was so eye-catching was at CES 2016, when Panasonic showed a transparent display in the form of a cabinet door, called the “invisible TV”; when it is not opened on a daily basis, it just looks like an ordinary transparent glass cabinet door. When it was opened, it was a TV that could display motion pictures. At that time, it was still a concept product.

One point to revisit here is the “self-luminous” nature of OLED screens themselves, which means that each red, green or blue sub-pixel on the screen emits its own light without relying on an additional backlight. Only in this way, OLED screens can eliminate the liquid crystal layer, backlight layer and other modules commonly found in traditional LCD screens, achieve higher color contrast, and in the form of thin and light enough to ensure. Thin, folding, bending, these screen forms are inseparable from the structural characteristics of the OLED screen itself.

The direction of transparent display technology is more diverse, such as LCD, OLED can be transparent. Here we put aside some unconventional transparent display technology, such as Google Glass, Microsoft HoloLens transparent display technology: this type of reality-enhanced AR glasses products, and sometimes with 3D display properties.

In addition, MIT has been working on developing a passive transparent display system with nanoparticle technology – this scheme uses a projector as an external light source to project the picture on top of a transparent medium (this transparent medium is embedded with a nanoparticle that can partially display the projected picture). There are also some current transparent display technologies that use similar projection schemes. These solutions are cheaper, but they are not the mainstream of transparent displays, at least not yet.

In the past two years we have seen more transparent displays, usually LCD or OLED transparent displays. It feels like we are back to the time when we discussed the flexible screen not long ago, divided into OLED flexible screen and LCD flexible screen two directions to do the discussion. So how do these two types of panels are transparent?

LG in a video briefly explained the principle of transparent OLED screen – it in the original red, green, blue and white four pixels, based on the addition of a “transparent sub-pixel”. This pixel does not emit light and does not participate in the image display, but it is itself made of highly transparent material.

Ultimately, when countless such pixels are evenly distributed on the panel, the screen will naturally obtain a certain transparency effect, but at the same time can also take into account the display of color images.

That’s why the transparency of transparent TVs is only around 30-40% at this stage, not 100%. After all, some sub-pixels are still used for image display, but as long as the density of transparent sub-pixels is high enough and the amount is large enough, it is enough to “fool” the user’s visual senses.

Making the screen transparent is only the first solution to the problem of transparent TV. After all, outside the screen, the back of the traditional TV set there are power, motherboard, audio and other devices, they can not disappear in thin air.

It is clear that the LCD screen originally had the basis to make a transparent screen. As for the OLED screen, the simplest example to support its transparency is that many smartphones now support under-screen fingerprint recognition (and even some have under-screen cameras), and these fingerprint recognition solutions are usually optical fingerprint recognition, which requires the screen itself to be transparent in order to achieve the purpose of still recognizing fingerprints under the screen. These screens are generally OLED screens, so it is clear that OLED screens naturally have this “transparent” feature. (For example, transparent electrodes ITO indium tin oxide material; some layers are thin enough so that the performance of translucent)

It can be said that the ‘coolness’ of the transparent TV is also the main reason why it is so desirable. Especially when you reach out to the back of the screen and see your palm intersect with the virtual TV content, that feeling is really fantastic.

Since you can DIY transparent display at home, screen transparency is not a black technology. Only these years the transparent screen research has always continued, the core issue should be how to increase transparency or screen light transmission. After all, DIY transparent display, and today’s Xiaomi transparent TV than in transparency or far worse.

This is also theoretically an important issue that affects both LCD and OLED transparent route. The previous article mentioned that LCD screen is the need for backlighting, which creates an obstacle for the full form of LCD screen to achieve transparency. In the early years there are some LCD transparent screen therefore removed the backlight system, with the help of external light source: either natural light, but artificial external backlight, to achieve the visualization of the screen. At the same time, LCDs also came with two polarizers (starters), which are components that affect the light transmission rate.

“While a typical transparent LCD screen requires a backlight to achieve a visible picture, a transparent OLED screen is made up of millions of self-illuminating pixels. This creates a whole new field of innovation…” And because the OLED layer structure is simple, it is also easier to make thin.

As mentioned earlier, these different layers originally have transparent properties. About contemporary panel manufacturers, there will be different layers to do further transparent technology. This part of the specific technical details we do not know. But the aforementioned Xiaomi transparent TV, subway windows transparent screen are OLED panels, it is not difficult to imagine the mainstream of today’s transparent display in which direction to go.

For example, many high-end supermarkets originally used a lot of glass in their windows to create a simple, transparent visual perception. LG now wants to replace all of this window glass with transparent OLED screens so that customers passing by can see both the products and the real-time changing information on the glass, which is also a means to enhance the experience.

Transparent displays for black are usually more valuable in terms of picture presentation, not only because the black background is easier to integrate into the environment (e.g., viewing in dim light), but also because the presentation of bright colors such as gold and silver is significantly more favorable and significantly better than transparent screens that display white transparently. In addition, the black part of the transparent is also to enhance the visual experience. Last year, when Panasonic showed its OLED transparent TV, it also added an extra black panel at the back to enhance the black presentation.

This is something that appears more valuable for the inherent use scenarios of transparent displays, such as store window item display aids, and various retail experience enhancements, all with transparent black displays, as well as enhanced bright color displays. This is also part of the reason why OLED transparent screens are more promising.

Although we do not know exactly what the different transparent display panel manufacturers are doing to optimize the transparency of each layer of the panel, some past materials and papers have revealed the industry’s efforts to achieve higher light transmission at certain levels of the panel. For example, the aforementioned Panasonic transparent TV, there is the application of transparency through the current control layer structure: transparent when energized, not energized transparency reduced (Figure below); and then the TFT layer of the backplane part of the display.

When discussing flexible screen technology, the TFT layer is also a key focus, after all, this is where the semiconductors converge, and the AMOLED active array pixel circuitry contains at least thin film transistors, storage capacitors, and depending on the desired display brightness, OLED efficiency and various parameters, the TFT is an important limiting factor for transparency. Depending on the desired display brightness, OLED efficiency and various parameters, the driver circuitry can occupy a significant size of the pixel, making the TFT an important limiting factor for transparency.

When the Panasonic transparent TV, as well as today’s Xiaomi transparent TV, close up and look closely is still visible in the fine grid embedded in the glass.

But the Xiaomi transparent TV grid, and its pixel improvement has a lot to do with. This is the recent OLED transparent screen to increase transparency efforts.

At present, the world has a transparent OLED screen mass production capacity of the supply side, there is only LG left. The panel used in the Xiaomi transparent TV is likely to be provided by LG.

At the same time, the circuitry is stacked behind the RGBW pixels, which gives the “transparent sub-pixels” a higher light transmission rate (of course, there are similar solutions with RGB sub-pixels and transparent areas). However, it seems that because of this reason, the pixel density cannot be too high. Although the Xiaomi transparent TV has a screen size of 55 inches, the resolution is 1080p.

Xiaomi will be the price of this transparent TV within 50,000, seems to be the beginning of transparent screen into the people’s home. Just from a practical point of view, such as the actual display effect of Xiaomi such transparent TV, than today’s mainstream TV is slightly far, although indeed futuristic, but in the ordinary home lighting environment, coupled with the messy background, the TV screen is indeed very difficult to see clearly.

From LG for its transparent panel positioning, such a product is not primarily for home entertainment services. In addition to its use as a subway train information interaction tool mentioned at the beginning of this article, it is more often used in electronic signage, merchandise / exhibits to assist in the display. Its name is “LG Transparent OLED Signage”. As a retail store merchandise display, it is still quite eye-catching, for example, as a product window display, integrated into the window glass, it creates a variety of interesting display scenes, very similar to reality enhancement.

In addition, LG in the promotion of its transparent display pre-determined a program, this display and the “video wall OLED Signage” to do combined. That is, there is a video wall OLED signage at the back, and then put the transparent display in front: so that the two in the common display screen, can create an immersive 3D viewing.

In the era of feature phones, with the increasing maturity of transparent display technology, we may soon see these transparent displays in many high-end retail stores and public infrastructure, just like the glass windows of trains in the subway. But it probably won’t be in our home entertainment anytime soon, as the screen now occupies almost the entire front of full-screen phones, so we can’t design a long “chin” or an abrupt “forehead” again, right?

In fact, in the military field, a similar design has been used to some extent. In order to prevent fighter pilots’ eyes from moving back and forth on the dashboard, the helmets they wear basically integrate a heads-up display, enabling pilots to observe the reality of the situation while mastering key data such as altitude and enemy identification markers.

According to [Kelsey], transparent displays are guaranteed to make “everything feel like the future.” Unfortunately they’re hard to find, and the ones typically available are OLED and can’t make solid black colors. But as luck would have it, it’s possible to repurpose a common LCD to be sort of transparent.

A LCD uses nematic crystals that can polarize light, with the amount of polarization changing based on the electric field applied to the crystal. Light enters the front of the panel through a polarizing film, passes through the display, and then bounces off a reflective back coating. The display itself usually polarizes light in a way that matches the front polarizer. That means if you do nothing you get reflected light. However, if a part of the LCD gets an electric field, it will repolarize in such a way as to block the reflected light making the display look black in that area.

[Kelsey’s] trick is to peel off the reflector and replace it with polarizing film taken from another display. The new polarizer needs to be bigger than the display for one reason: you need to match the polarizing angle of the front film with the new back film. That means if the new film is exactly the right size, it won’t be able to rotate without leaving gaps. By starting with a larger piece, you’ll be able to rotate for maximum transparency before you stick it on.

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