Abstract: A method for manufacturing a color filter substrate is provided in the present disclosure, that includes providing a substrate; forming a plurality of RGB color resists on the substrate, an upper surface of each of the RGB color resists forming a plurality of light emitting regions; forming a black matrix on the surface of each of the RGB color resists, wherein the black matrix covers a portion of the surface of each of the RGB color resists except the light emitting regions; forming a plurality of photo spacers on a surface of the black matrix in a plurality of empty areas within each of the RGB color resists, wherein the adjacent photo spacers are separated by one of the color resist regions; and forming a protective layer over the substrate.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a one-dimensionally varying optical filter, a substrate is coated to form a stack of layers of two or more different types. The coating may, for example, employ sputtering, electron-beam evaporation, or thermal evaporation. During the coating, the time-averaged deposition rate is varied along an optical gradient direction by generating reciprocation between a shadow mask and the substrate in a reciprocation direction that is transverse to the optical gradient direction. In some approaches, the shadow mask is periodic with a mask period defined along the direction of reciprocation, and the generated reciprocation has a stroke equal to or greater than the mask period along the direction of reciprocation. The substrate and the shadow mask may also be rotated together as a unit during the coating. Also disclosed are one-dimensionally varying optical filters, such as linear variable filters, made by such methods.

Abstract: A method of making a color filter array on a first substrate having an array of pixels, comprising the steps of: depositing and patterning a photoresist layer on the substrate layer to form selected openings over pixels in the array; providing a transferable colorant layer on a second substrate and positioning such transferable layer in transferable relationship with the first substrate; transferring the colorant material to the photoresist layer on the first substrate, removing the patterned photoresist layer by chemical mechanical polishing, leaving behind the colorant material in the position of the openings over the selected pixels.