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According to LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) technology and LCD materials, mobile phone LCD assemblies can be classified into 2 types: TFT (Thin Flim Transistor) and OLED（Organic Light-Emitting Diode). TFT display needs with backlight, but OLED is light-emitting, each pixel is creating its own light.

For Original iPhone LCD, 5-8 plus and Xr, 11 is TFT, X-13 Pro Max is OLED (except XR and 11). But in mobile phone aftermarket, there are too many different types and different qualities, which makes customers confused.

What is in-cell? What is OGS or " with TP"? What is COF? What is COG? What is OEM? What is FOG? What is Original Change Glass? What is IPS? What is LTPS? What is a-Si?

HTPS with small size, high precision, and high contrast. Most used in magnified display products. Such as projectors, projection TVs, etc. And cannot be used as a mobile phone display, so we don"t talk about it here.

Because the electrons deflect the liquid crystal molecules through the transistor. Electron mobility fundamentally determines the refresh rates of the TFT device. The smaller mobility, the slower transmission of holes and electrons, and the slower response rate. Can"t physically support high refresh rates.

In order to improve the response performance, can increase transistor size to enhance the migration, but this will lead to the extra TFT device that will occupy the display area pixel area. Therefore, the larger unit transistor area, the single-pixel occupy area is smaller(Pixel Aperture Ratio ), resulting in lower brightness.

As we can see electron mobility of a-Si is very low (0.5-1cm2/Vs). But LTPS can deliver a hundred times the mobility than a-Si, and a much higher aperture ratio and PPI is much higher than a-Si resolution.

Compared with LTPS，a-si TFT have those "weakness":a-Si with so much low resolution and low definition. a-Si is 720*1280 with a very blurred display effect.

a-Si with so much bad display performance, but why are there still so many manufacturers producing phone LCDs with a-Si, or why do the customers willing to use a-Si LCD for their phone?

LCDs business has too much competition and wholesalers want to make more profit, they keep pushing suppliers to make LCDs at lower prices. So some of the suppliers start to produce aftermarket phone displays with a-Si to match customers" lower price requirements.

Now in the market a-Si LCDs for iPhone is TFT with TP but not in-cell. Our ZY a-Si will be in-cell not just TFT with TP. ZY a-Si incell for Xr and 11 ready now, please to get more details.

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The world of smartphones has been busy for the past few months. There have been numerous revolutionary launches with groundbreaking innovations that have the capacity to change the course of the smartphone industry. But the most important attribute of a smartphone is the display, which has been the focus for all prominent players in the mobile phone industry this year.

Samsung came up with its unique 18:5:9 AMOLED display for the Galaxy S8. LG picked up its old trusted IPS LCD unit for the G6’s display. These display units have been familiar to the usual Indian smartphone buyer. Honor, on the other hand, has just unveiled the new Honor 8 Pro for the Indian market that ships with an LTPS LCD display. This has led to wonder how exactly is this technology different from the existing ones and what benefits does it give Honor to craft its flagship smartphone with. Well, let’s find out.

The LCD technology brought in the era of thin displays to screens, making the smartphone possible in the current world. LCD displays are power efficient and work on the principle of blocking light. The liquid crystal in the display unit uses some kind of a backlight, generally a LED backlight or a reflector, to make the picture visible to the viewer. There are two kinds of LCD units – passive matrix LCD that requires more power and the superior active matrix LCD unit, known to people as Thin Film Transistor (TFT) that draws less power.

The early LCD technology couldn’t maintain the colour for wide angle viewing, which led to the development of the In-Plane Switching (IPS) LCD panel. IPS panel arranges and switches the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules of standard LCD display between the glass substrates. This helps it to enhance viewing angles and improve colour reproduction as well. IPS LCD technology is responsible for accelerating the growth of the smartphone market and is the go-to display technology for prominent manufacturers.

The standard LCD display uses amorphous Silicon as the liquid for the display unit as it can be assembled into complex high-current driver circuits. This though restricts the display resolution and adds to overall device temperatures. Therefore, development of the technology led to replacing the amorphous Silicon with Polycrystalline Silicon, which boosted the screen resolution and maintains low temperatures. The larger and more uniform grains of polysilicon allow faster electron movement, resulting in higher resolution and higher refresh rates. It also was found to be cheaper to manufacture due to lower cost of certain key substrates. Therefore, the Low-Temperature PolySilicon (LTPS) LCD screen helps provide larger pixel densities, lower power consumption that standard LCD and controlled temperature ranges.

The AMOLED display technology is in a completely different league. It doesn’t bother with any liquid mechanism or complex grid structures. The panel uses an array of tiny LEDs placed on TFT modules. These LEDs have an organic construction that directly emits light and minimises its loss by eradicating certain filters. Since LEDs are physically different units, they can be asked to switch on and off as per the requirement of the display to form a picture. This is known as the Active Matrix system. Hence, an Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) display can produce deeper blacks by switching off individual LED pixels, resulting in high contrast pictures.

The honest answer is that it depends on the requirement of the user. If you want accurate colours from your display while wanting it to retain its vibrancy for a longer period of time, then any of the two LCD screens are the ideal choice. LTPS LCD display can provide higher picture resolution but deteriorates faster than standard IPS LCD display over time.

An AMOLED display will provide high contrast pictures any time but it too has the tendency to deteriorate faster than LCD panels. Therefore, if you are after greater picture quality, choose LTPS LCD or else settle for AMOLED for a vivid contrast picture experience.

(Low Temperature PolySilicon)An active matrix LCD screen that is faster and more integrated than screens made with amorphous silicon substrates. Rather than the single-crystal silicon used in chips, amorphous silicon advanced the active matrix industry by allowing thin film transistors (TFTs) to be deposited on large substrates. There is a huge investment in existing amorphous technology; however, polysilicon provides an alternate approach for certain applications.Faster, Denser, More IntegratedThe larger and more uniform grains of polysilicon (poly-Si) allow electrons to flow 100 times faster than they do through the random-sized grains of amorphous silicon (a-Si), enabling higher resolutions and higher speed. In addition, instead of surrounding the screen area, the row/column driver electronics are integrated onto the glass substrate, thereby reducing the TFT section and the wiring between the pixels. Thus, LTPS LCD pixels can be closer together and achieve densities of 800 dpi and greater.

Flat-panel displays are thin panels of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying text, images, or video. Liquid crystal displays (LCD), OLED (organic light emitting diode) and microLED displays are not quite the same; since LCD uses a liquid crystal that reacts to an electric current blocking light or allowing it to pass through the panel, whereas OLED/microLED displays consist of electroluminescent organic/inorganic materials that generate light when a current is passed through the material. LCD, OLED and microLED displays are driven using LTPS, IGZO, LTPO, and A-Si TFT transistor technologies as their backplane using ITO to supply current to the transistors and in turn to the liquid crystal or electroluminescent material. Segment and passive OLED and LCD displays do not use a backplane but use indium tin oxide (ITO), a transparent conductive material, to pass current to the electroluminescent material or liquid crystal. In LCDs, there is an even layer of liquid crystal throughout the panel whereas an OLED display has the electroluminescent material only where it is meant to light up. OLEDs, LCDs and microLEDs can be made flexible and transparent, but LCDs require a backlight because they cannot emit light on their own like OLEDs and microLEDs.

Liquid-crystal display (or LCD) is a thin, flat panel used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. They are usually made of glass but they can also be made out of plastic. Some manufacturers make transparent LCD panels and special sequential color segment LCDs that have higher than usual refresh rates and an RGB backlight. The backlight is synchronized with the display so that the colors will show up as needed. The list of LCD manufacturers:

Organic light emitting diode (or OLED displays) is a thin, flat panel made of glass or plastic used for electronically displaying information such as text, images, and moving pictures. OLED panels can also take the shape of a light panel, where red, green and blue light emitting materials are stacked to create a white light panel. OLED displays can also be made transparent and/or flexible and these transparent panels are available on the market and are widely used in smartphones with under-display optical fingerprint sensors. LCD and OLED displays are available in different shapes, the most prominent of which is a circular display, which is used in smartwatches. The list of OLED display manufacturers:

MicroLED displays is an emerging flat-panel display technology consisting of arrays of microscopic LEDs forming the individual pixel elements. Like OLED, microLED offers infinite contrast ratio, but unlike OLED, microLED is immune to screen burn-in, and consumes less power while having higher light output, as it uses LEDs instead of organic electroluminescent materials, The list of MicroLED display manufacturers:

Sony produces and sells commercial MicroLED displays called CLEDIS (Crystal-LED Integrated Displays, also called Canvas-LED) in small quantities.video walls.

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If you want to buy a new monitor, you might wonder what kind of display technologies I should choose. In today’s market, there are two main types of computer monitors: TFT LCD monitors & IPS monitors.

The word TFT means Thin Film Transistor. It is the technology that is used in LCD displays.  We have additional resources if you would like to learn more about what is a TFT Display. This type of LCDs is also categorically referred to as an active-matrix LCD.

These LCDs can hold back some pixels while using other pixels so the LCD screen will be using a very minimum amount of energy to function (to modify the liquid crystal molecules between two electrodes). TFT LCDs have capacitors and transistors. These two elements play a key part in ensuring that the TFT display monitor functions by using a very small amount of energy while still generating vibrant, consistent images.

Industry nomenclature: TFT LCD panels or TFT screens can also be referred to as TN (Twisted Nematic) Type TFT displays or TN panels, or TN screen technology.

IPS (in-plane-switching) technology is like an improvement on the traditional TFT LCD display module in the sense that it has the same basic structure, but has more enhanced features and more widespread usability.

Both TFT display and IPS display are active-matrix displays, neither can’t emit light on their own like OLED displays and have to be used with a back-light of white bright light to generate the picture. Newer panels utilize LED backlight (light-emitting diodes) to generate their light hence utilizing less power and requiring less depth by design. Neither TFT display nor IPS display can produce color, there is a layer of RGB (red, green, blue) color filter in each LCD pixels to produce the color consumers see. If you use a magnifier to inspect your monitor, you will see RGB color in each pixel. With an on/off switch and different level of brightness RGB, we can get many colors.

Winner. IPS TFT screens have around 0.3 milliseconds response time while TN TFT screens responds around 10 milliseconds which makes the latter unsuitable for gaming

Winner. the images that IPS displays create are much more pristine and original than that of the TFT screen. IPS displays do this by making the pixels function in a parallel way. Because of such placing, the pixels can reflect light in a better way, and because of that, you get a better image within the display.

As the display screen made with IPS technology is mostly wide-set, it ensures that the aspect ratio of the screen would be wider. This ensures better visibility and a more realistic viewing experience with a stable effect.

Winner. While the TFT LCD has around 15% more power consumption vs IPS LCD, IPS has a lower transmittance which forces IPS displays to consume more power via backlights. TFT LCD helps battery life.

Normally, high-end products, such as Apple Mac computer monitors and Samsung mobile phones, generally use IPS panels. Some high-end TV and mobile phones even use AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diodes) displays. This cutting edge technology provides even better color reproduction, clear image quality, better color gamut, less power consumption when compared to LCD technology.

This kind of touch technology was first introduced by Steve Jobs in the first-generation iPhone. Of course, a TFT LCD display can always meet the basic needs at the most efficient price. An IPS display can make your monitor standing out.

LCD or AMOLED, 1080p vs 2K? There are plenty of contentious topics when it comes to smartphone displays, which all have an impact on the day to day usage of our smartphones. However, one important topic which is often overlooked during analysis and discussion is the type of backplane technology used in the display.

Display makers often throw around terms like A-Si, IGZO, or LTPS. But what do these acronyms actually mean and what’s the impact of backplane technology on user experience? What about future developments?

For clarification, backplane technology describes the materials and assembly designs used for the thin film transistors which drive the main display. In other words, it is the backplane that contains an array of transistors which are responsible for turning the individual pixels on and off, acting therefore as a determining factor when it comes to display resolution, refresh rate, and power consumption.

Examples of backplane technology include amorphous silicon (aSi), low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) and indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO), whilst LCD and OLED are examples of light emitting material types. Some of the different backplane technologies can be used with different display types, so IGZO can be used with either LCD or OLED displays, albeit that some backplanes are more suitable than others.

Amorphous silicon has been the go-to material for backplane technology for many years, and comes in a variety of different manufacturing methods, to improve its energy efficiency, refresh speeds, and the display’s viewing angle. Today, a-Si displays make up somewhere between 20 and 25 percent of the smartphone display market.

For mobile phone displays with a pixel density lower than 300 pixels per inch, this technology remains the preferable backplane of choice, mainly due to its low costs and relatively simple manufacturing process. However, when it comes to higher resolution displays and new technologies such as AMOLED, a-Si is beginning to struggle.

AMOLED puts more electrical stress on the transistors compared with LCD, and therefore favours technologies that can offer more current to each pixel. Also, AMOLED pixel transistors take up more space compared with LCDs, blocking more light emissions for AMOLED displays, making a-Si rather unsuitable. As a result, new technologies and manufacturing processes have been developed to meet the increasing demands made of display panels over recent years.

LTPS currently sits as the high-bar of backplane manufacturing, and can be spotted behind most of the high end LCD and AMOLED displays found in today’s smartphones.  It is based on a similar technology to a-Si, but a higher process temperature is used to manufacture LTPS, resulting in a material with improved electrical properties.

LTPS is in fact the only technology that really works for AMOLED right now, due to the higher amount of current required by this type of display technology. LTPS also has higher electron mobility, which, as the name suggests, is an indication of how quickly/easily an electron can move through the transistor, with up to 100 times greater mobility than a-Si.

For starters, this allows for much faster switching display panels. The other big benefit of this high mobility is that the transistor size can be shrunk down, whilst still providing the necessary power for most displays. This reduced size can either be put towards energy efficiencies and reduced power consumption, or can be used to squeeze more transistors in side by side, allow for much greater resolution displays. Both of these aspects are becoming increasingly important as smartphones begin to move beyond 1080p, meaning that LTPS is likely to remain a key technology for the foreseeable future.

The drawback of LTPS TFT comes from its increasingly complicated manufacturing process and material costs, which makes the technology more expensive to produce, especially as resolutions continue to increase. As an example, a 1080p LCD based on this technology panel costs roughly 14 percent more than a-Si TFT LCD. However, LTPS’s enhanced qualities still mean that it remains the preferred technology for higher resolution displays.

Currently, a-Si and LTPS LCD displays make up the largest combined percentage of the smartphone display market. However, IGZO is anticipated as the next technology of choice for mobile displays. Sharp originally began production of its IGZO-TFT LCD panels back in 2012, and has been employing its design in smartphones, tablets and TVs since then. The company has also recent shown off examples of non-rectangular shaped displays based on IGZO. Sharp isn’t the only player in this field — LG and Samsung are both interested in the technology as well.

The area where IGZO, and other technologies, have often struggled is when it comes to implementations with OLED. ASi has proven rather unsuitable to drive OLED displays, with LTPS providing good performance, but at increasing expense as display size and pixel densities increase. The OLED industry is on the hunt for a technology which combines the low cost and scalability of a-Si with the high performance and stability of LTPS, which is where IGZO comes in.

Why should the industry make the switch over to IGZO? Well, the technology has quite a lot of potential, especially for mobile devices. IGZO’s build materials allow for a decent level of electron mobility, offering 20 to 50 times the electron mobility of amorphous silicon (a-Si), although this isn’t quite as high as LTPS, which leaves you with quite a few design possibilities. IGZO displays can therefore by shrunk down to smaller transistor sizes, resulting in lower power consumption, which provides the added benefit of making the IGZO layer less visible than other types. That means you can run the display at a lower brightness to achieve the same output, reducing power consumption in the process.

One of IGZO’s other benefits is that it is highly scalable, allowing for much higher resolution displays with greatly increased pixel densities. Sharp has already announced plans for panels with 600 pixels per inch. This can be accomplished more easily than with a-Si TFT types due to the smaller transistor size.

Smaller IGZO transistors are also touting superior noise isolation compared to a-Si, which should result in a smoother and more sensitive user experience when used with touchscreens. When it comes to IGZO OLED, the technology is well on the way, as Sharp has just unveiled its new 13.3-inch 8K OLED display at SID-2014.

Essentially, IGZO strives to reach the performance benefits of LTPS, whilst keeping fabrications costs as low as possible. LG and Sharp are both working on improving their manufacturing yields this year, with LG aiming for 70% with its new Gen 8 M2 fab. Combined with energy efficient display technologies like OLED, IGZO should be able to offer an excellent balance of cost, energy efficiency, and display quality for mobile devices.

Innovations in display backplanes aren’t stopping with IGZO, as companies are already investing in the next wave, aiming to further improve energy efficiency and display performance. Two examples worth keeping an eye are on are Amorphyx’ amorphous metal nonlinear resistor (AMNR) and CBRITE.

This developing technology can be manufacturing on a process that leverages a-Si TFT production equipment, which should keep costs down when it comes to switching production, whilst also offering a 40 percent lower cost of production compared with a-Si. AMNR is also touting better optical performance than a-Si and a complete lack of sensitivity to light, unlike IGZO. AMNR could end up offering a new cost effective option for mobile displays, while making improvements in power consumption too.

CBRITE, on the other hand, is working on its own metal oxide TFT, which has a material and process that delivers greater carrier mobility than IGZO. Electron mobility can happily reach 30cm²/V·sec, around the speed of IGZO, and has been demonstrated reaching 80cm²/V·sec, which is almost as high as LTPS. CBRITE also appears to lend itself nicely to the higher resolution and lower power consumption requirements of future mobile display technologies.

Smartphones are already benefiting from improvements in screen technology, and some would argue that things are already as good as they need to be, but the display industry still has plenty to show us over the next few years.

LTPS or low-temperature polysilicon is a silicon-based material used in semiconductor components and devices. In liquid crystal or LCD technology, it is specifically a backplane technology and a major component of thin-film transistors or TFT responsible for turning individual pixels on and off.

Conventional LCDs use amorphous silicon. However, one of the reasons why manufacturers are switching to low-temperature polysilicon is overall superiority. More specifically, LTPS LCD has inherent advantages over a-Si LCD and even IGZO LCD.

A notable advantage of LTPS LCD is that it has larger and more uniform grains of polysilicon. Note that a-Si LCD has random-sized grains. Hence, in low-temperature polysilicon, electrons flow 100 times faster than in amorphous silicon. IGZO, on the other hand, has 30 to 40 times more electron mobility than a-SI. Thus, it is in this regard that LTPS remains inherently better than both amorphous silicon and indium gallium zinc oxide.

The faster electron flow or better electron mobility translates further to higher resolutions and faster pixel response time. Hence, manufacturers can produce LCDs with higher pixel density with low-temperature polysilicon than a-SI while improving the refresh rates of advanced LCD technologies such as in-plane switching or IPS LCD.

A probable application of LTPS is in consumer electronic devices with soft and flexible displays. Furthermore, its capacity to support high resolution and stable reliability make this technology an ideal candidate for portable displays over other semiconductor materials. Note that flexibility is a critical issue in manufacturing small-sized portable displays.

Two of the major drawbacks of LTPS is that it has a complicated manufacturing process and higher material costs than a-Si. Thus, backplane technology based on this material is more expensive to produce. A 1080p low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCD would cost about 12 to 14 percent more than an amorphous silicon TFT LCD.

Another disadvantage is that LCDs based on this technology have a shorter lifespan than those based on a-Si and IGZO. The quality of LTPS LCD decreases over time due to overheating. Note that turning transistors on produces heat. Low-temperature polysilicon is susceptible to overheating. High temperature degrades the entire thin-film transistor by breaking the silicon-hydrogen bonds on the material.

Note that IGZO has an electron mobility nearly as high as low-temperature polysilicon. However, it has a lower leakage current. Both LTPS and a-SI have high leakage current that necessitates continuous pixel refresh when displaying a still image. IGZO displays retain their active state longer than the two.

It is important to highlight the fact that low-temperature polysilicon or LTPS is a backplane technology that can be applied not only in LCD but also in other display technologies. For starters, it has been used to improve the performance and quality of in-plane switching or IPS LCD. It is also applicable in organic light-emitting diode or OLED technology. Researchers and manufacturers are also opting to use this material for use in emerging display technologies to include mini-LED LCDs and microLED display technology.

A hybrid between IGZO and LTPS is possible. Apple Inc. demonstrated in its Apple Watch devices that it is possible to combine silicon-based and oxide-based materials with the so-called low-temperature polycrystalline oxide or LTPO display.

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The display on a laptop is arguably the most important aspect, since it’s the one thing you will always be using. Other factors can be as important, such as the keyboard, battery life, and build quality, depending on application, but the display can make or break the experience.

Luckily the bar for display quality has gone up significantly in recent years. It’s difficult, but not impossible, to find a premium or business laptop without an IPS display now, and that alone has increased the usability of laptops considerably. Some gaming laptops may still offer TN displays with ultra-high refresh rates for the ultimate in gaming smoothness, but those same devices will generally be offered with a lower refresh rate IPS panel as an option as well. TN still has its advantages, but for most computing needs, IPS wins out.

We’ve also seen some nice strides in terms of efficiency upgrades on LCD panels, especially with high-resolution (high-density) displays, thanks to new materials being used to construct the underlying thin-film transistors. It’s likely that a lot of effort is being spent here by display manufacturers to continue to improve this. High resolution used to be a liability in terms of battery life, but laptops like the Huawei MateBook X Pro offer exceptional battery life and efficiency despite the 3000x2000 resolution, likely in a large part due to the LTPS TFT they are using. The MateBook X Pro is as efficient as the ASUS ZenBook 3 with the same CPU and only a 1920x1080 display.

We’re still at a point where Windows expects you to be using the sRGB color space, and displays – especially laptops without proper 3D LUTs that can be set to different gamuts – can be problematic. Some Adobe RGB-capable laptops like the Dell XPS 15 do have the ability to change the gamut in hardware though, so you can set it to Adobe RGB when working on photography, and then back to sRGB for the rest of the time. The lack of a proper color management system at the OS level in Windows means that if you don’t do this, colors will be blown out all across the system, from the wallpaper to the web browser. Microsoft has added a lot more functionality on transforms with their HDR stack though, so perhaps this will be solved eventually. This is one advantage Apple has held for a long time.

Finally, we went over how we test and why. Testing a display objectively is the only method we have available for an apples to apples comparison. Some people may prefer the colors to be a bit oversaturated, but they aren’t seeing the true image that they should. Once you’ve used an accurate display, it’s difficult to go back, and having a display calibrated at the factory is always the way to go. If Apple can afford to do it on a $399 iPad, certainly a laptop manufacturer can find it in their budget to calibrate a $2000 Ultrabook.

There’s a lot to look forward to with displays as well. High resolution is already here, but HDR and wider color spaces are going to change the game over the next couple of years. There’s no way to stop the march of technology.

LTPS is an abbreviation for Low-Temperature Polycrystalline silicon. When compared to conventional methods LCD, this form of monitor is speedier and much more incorporated.

Furthermore, rather than enclosing the best positioned, individual row/column controller semiconductors are incorporated onto the glass surface, decreasing the TFT portion as well as the wire between the pixels.

As a result, LTPS LCD units may be brought adjacent together again and attain densities of 200 dpi or higher. It has higher graphic intensities and uses less electricity because it does not light up each pixels separately. Customers might anticipate greater resolution of the image on tablet devices.

This LTPS panel offers a higher graphical fidelity to the viewer, and some people believe it will be more believable. It has higher picture densities and uses less electricity because it does not light up each pixel separately.

The much more essential feature of a smartphones, however, is its display, which has been the focus of all major participants in the mobile phone market early 2019.

Currently, a-Si panels account for a sizable portion of the cell phone screen industry. LTPS is now the gold standard in power supply manufacture and can be discovered while behind majority of high-end LCD and AMOLED displays used in today’s handsets.

It really is based on the common technique to a-Si, but LTPS is manufactured at a greater processing temperature, culminating in a semiconductor with enhanced electrical characteristics. Due to the larger amount of current necessary by this process, LTPS is currently the only technique that truly works with AMOLED.

LTPS also has better electronic conductivity, which indicates whether quickly/easily the electrons can pass across the transistor, with up to 100 percent more maneuverability than a-Si. In instance, this enables significantly quicker swapping between display screens.

The increasing demand for Low Temperature Polysilicon (LTPS) Display is leading firms in the worldwide Low Temperature Polysilicon (LTPS) Market globally to investigate new rivals, innovations, as well as expenditures.

In particular, any use of crystal of silicon in thin-film semiconductors (LTPS-TFT) offers a tremendous potential for huge manufacture of electronic equipment such as flat screen LCD displays or photodetector.

The Low Temperature Polysilicon (LTPS) Display market research also includes detailed information on industry advancement trends, present market characteristics, sourcing raw – materials assessment, and customer requirements.

Samsung Electronics has been one of the growing industries in the global market focusing on better daily technologies to be integrated for major sectors of operations. The Samsung Displays had been exploring producing thin-film transistors (TFT) for use in Samsung Electronics’ Micro LED TVs.

This TFT serves as a switch which toggles its screen’s pixels on and off. For prior Micro LED TVs larger than 100 inches in length, Samsung employed circuit boards (PCB). Nevertheless, the tech behemoth intends to use LTPS TFT for the smaller Micro LED TV versions.

This is attributed to the reason that thinner TV versions will employ even tiny LEDs that would be more densely populated altogether. Any use of LTPS TFT allows for the creation of a microcircuit that really can regulate these tiny LEDs separately. This is tough to achieve using circuits on a standard PCB. This touchscreen will indeed be manufactured by Samsung Displays.

Sony Corporation is growing its development technologies focusing on the LTPS Market of global operability with much higher display systems in operations. Sony has created low-power, comparatively tiny LTPS (Low Temperature Poly Silicon) TFT-LCD screens for mobile devices.

Sony is able to make LTPS TFT-LCDs that utilise approximately 25% lower electricity compared present versions by strengthening drive circuits. Sony also managed to minimise the volume used by control loops by 14%, freeing up more room here on monitor for such monitor screen.

It also intends to manufacture a 1080p Full Active LTPS LCD panel with a 2:1 viewing angle. It has a 6-inch diagonally touchscreen with tiny bezels and Pixel Eyes technology, which allows for far lower black depths than what has been generally connected with LCD displays.

"Apple has long been speculated that it will launch an AMOLED version of its new iPhone in September along with two other LTPS TFT LCD models," industry sources said.

But TRI said that the definition LTPS TFT LCD panels varies proportionally with needed power to drive backlights in handsets, a relationship that is politically-incorrect in this age of eco-awareness and would work against promotions in markets with high proportions of consumers whose buying decisions are actually influenced by the green movement than fad.

Optimization resulting from high transmissivity of LTPS TFT LCD technology achieves a high luminance of 250cd/m2, a high contrast ratio of 400:1 and a wide color gamut of 70%, despite super-high density of 229 ppi.

A combination of high transmissivity of LTPS TFT LCD technology and NEC LCD Technologies" own unique super-reflective natural light TFT (SR-NLT) technology achieves high luminance of 200cd/m2 and a high reflective ratio of 15%, despite a super-high density of 229 ppi.

Optimization based on high transmissivity of LTPS TFT LCD technology achieves high luminance of 200cd/m2, a high contrast ratio of 400:1 and a wide color gamut of 70%, despite ultra-high density of 302ppi.

A combination of high transmissivity of LTPS TFT LCD technology and NEC LCD Technologies" own unique super-reflective natural light TFT (SR-NLT) technology achieves high luminance of 180cd/m2 and a high reflective ratio of 15%, despite ultra-high density of 302ppi.

Leadis supplies display drivers supporting the major small panel display technologies, including a-Si and LTPS TFT LCD"s, color STN LCD"s, and color OLED displays.

Estimated Shipments of Small and Medium-sized Display Panels, by Category Unit: 1 million units Period LTPS TFT LCD a-Si TFT LCD CSTN LCD MSTN LCD AMOLED Q1, 2010 69 234 66 18 6 Q2, 2010 78 252 66 18 6 Q3, 2010 102 264 48 18 12 Q4, 2010 96 252 48 12 18 Q1, 2011 96 228 36 12 18 Q2, 2011 102 300 36 6 24 Q3, 2011 108 300 24 12 36 Q4, 2011 108 280 24 12 42 Q1, 2012 110 300 15 12 42 Q2, 2012 120 310 13 10 42 Q3, 2012 150 320 10 10 54 Q4, 2012 140 320 10 10 54 Source: Topology Research Institute

Shipment Share of Cellphone Main Display by Technology Sum of / Unit Share (%) 2009 Q1 "10 a-Si TFT LCD 52.3% 59.2% CSTN 20.3% 15.3% LTPS TFT LCD 20.4% 17.6% AMOLED 1.4% 1.9% MSTN 5.6% 6% PMOLED 0.1% 0% Source: Display Search Quarterly Mobile Phone Shipment and Forecast Report

Founded in 2001, AFPD is a joint venture between Toshiba Corporation and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., specializing in the manufacture of LTPS TFT LCDs with excellent mass production and related technologies as its intelligence properties.

TFT (Thin-Film Transistor) Displays are active-matrix LCDs with full RGB color screens. These screens feature bright, vivid colors and have the ability to show fast animations, complex graphics and crisp custom fonts. TFTs are perfect displays for providing a rich user interface for all types of products. While typically used in consumer devices like personal DVD players and handheld devices, TFTs are also well suited for industrial application.

TFTs are Active-Matrix LCDs that have tiny switching transistors and capacitors. These tiny transistors control each pixel on the display and require very little energy to actively change the orientation of the liquid crystal in the display. This allows for faster control of each Red, Green and Blue sub-pixel cell thus producing clear fast-moving color graphics.

The transistors in the TFT are arranged in a matrix on the glass substrate. Each pixel on the display remains off until addressed by applying a charge to the transistor. Unlike conventional Passive-Matrix displays, in order to activate a specific pixel, the corresponding row is turned on and a charge is sent down the proper column. This is where only the capacitor at the designated pixel receives a charge and is held until the next refresh cycle. Essentially, each transistor acts as an active switch. By incorporating an active switch, this limits the number of scan lines and eliminates cross-talk issues.

MVA (Multi-domain Vertical Alignment) displays can offer wide viewing angles, good black depth, fast response times, and good color reproduction and depth. Each pixel within a MVA type TFT consists of three sub-pixels (Red, Green and Blue). Each of these sub-pixels is divided further into two or more sub-pixels, where the liquid crystals are randomly lined up due to the ridged polarized glass. When a charge is applied to the transistor, the crystals twist. With these crystals being randomly placed, it allows the backlight to shine through in all different directions keeping the intended color saturation retained while giving the display a 150deg. viewing angle.

In-Plane Switching (IPS) TFTs were developed to improve on the poor viewing angle and the poor color reproduction of TN TFT panels at that time. The crystal molecules move parallel to the panel plane instead of perpendicular to it. This change reduces the amount of light scattering in the matrix, which gives IPS its characteristic wide viewing angles and good color reproduction. Because of its wide viewing angle and accurate color reproduction (with almost no off-angle color shift), IPS is widely employed in high-end monitors aimed at professional graphic artists.

The name In-Plane Switching comes from the crystals in the cells of the IPS panel lying always in the same plane and being always parallel to the panel’s plane (if we don’t take into account the minor interference from the electrodes). When voltage is applied to a cell, the crystals of that cell all make a 90-degrees turn. By the way, an IPS panel lets the backlight pass through in its active state and shutters it in its passive state (when no voltage is applied), so if a thin-film transistor crashes, the corresponding pixel will always remain black, unlike with TN matrices.

IPS (In-Plane Switching) displays provide consistent, accurate color from all viewing angles without blur or grayscale inversion. IPS displays show clear images with fast response time, and no halo effect is produced when touched. Each pixel within an IPS type TFT consists of three sub-pixels (Red, Green and Blue). Each sub-pixel has a pair of electrodes to control the twisting of the Liquid Crystals. Unlike TN type TFTs where the electrodes are on opposing plates, the electrodes in an IPS TFT are on only one of the glass plates (i.e. in the same plane). When voltage is applied to the electrodes, all the Liquid Crystal molecules align in parallel with that plane and allow light to pass through to the polarizers and RGB color filters. In effect, TN displays force the Liquid Crystal molecules perpendicular to the glass which blocks some light from coming out at wide angles, while IPS displays keep the Liquid Crystal molecules in line to allow light through at all angles.

Low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) is polycrystalline silicon that has been synthesized at relatively low temperatures (~650 °C and lower) compared to in traditional methods (above 900 °C). LTPS is important for display industries, since the use of large glass panels prohibits exposure to deformative high temperatures. More specifically, the use of polycrystalline silicon in thin-film transistors (LTPS-TFT) has high potential for large-scale production of electronic devices like flat panel LCD displays or image sensors.

Polycrystalline silicon (p-Si) is a pure and conductive form of the element composed of many crystallites, or grains of highly ordered crystal lattice. In 1984, studies showed that amorphous silicon (a-Si) is an excellent precursor for forming p-Si films with stable structures and low surface roughness. Silicon film is synthesized by low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) to minimize surface roughness. First, amorphous silicon is deposited at 560–640 °C. Then it is thermally annealed (recrystallized) at 950–1000 °C. Starting with the amorphous film, rather than directly depositing crystals, produces a product with a superior structure and a desired smoothness. In 1988, researchers discovered that further lowering temperature during annealing, together with advanced plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD),could facilitate even higher degrees of conductivity. These techniques have profoundly impacted the microelectronics, photovoltaic, and display enhancement industries.

A simple transflective display is shown as below, in which there are two regions, T and R respectively. The cell gap in two regions are different, dT = 2*dR. This is to maintain the reflection and transmission from two regions are the same intensity, and give same color reproduction, because in the T region, light only goes through the LC layer once, while in the R region, light passes through twice.