Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method for an active matrix substrate, capable of providing a hole for alignment at an interlayer dielectric film without possible etching of a substrate surface and abnormal electric discharge and of allowing the position of a formed film to be easily corrected to be aligned with the position of the film of the lowest layer, with high overlaying precision. Also provided are the active matrix substrate and a display apparatus comprising the active matrix substrate. An interlayer dielectric film 14 of the active matrix substrate is formed using an SOG material with photosensitivity, and an adjustment hole 14b for adjustment of the patterns of a gate insulation film 15, a first semiconductor film 16, a second semiconductor film 17 and a source metal that are formed on the upper side of a substrate 10 and the interlayer dielectric film 14 is formed. The position of each film is adjusted while viewing an edge of the gate wiring 11 through the adjustment hole 14b.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a display panel including a first substrate; a device layer disposed on the first substrate, wherein the device layer includes a plurality of thin-film transistors and the thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode; a gate insulating layer disposed on the first substrate and covering the gate electrode; a source electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer; a transparent conductive layer disposed on the gate insulating layer and overlapping and electrically connecting the source electrode; a pixel electrode; an active layer electrically connecting the transparent conductive layer and the pixel electrode; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate; and a display medium between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there is disclosed an array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a broken-line repairing method thereof. The array substrate comprises: signal lines, which includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines intersecting with each other; and a plurality of pixel units defined by the gate lines and the data lines, wherein a thin film transistor, a common electrode and a pixel electrode, which is connected to a drain of the thin film transistor, are formed in each of the pixel units, for each of the pixel units, at the positions of two corners which are adjacent to one of the data lines, a first repair area and a second repair area are formed, respectively; within the first repair area and the second repair area, patterns of the pixel electrode and the data line overlap, and there is no pattern of the common electrode.

Abstract: A photoluminescent panel includes a lower substrate, an upper substrate facing the lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and a color conversion layer disposed on the upper substrate. The color conversion layer includes a light excitation particle which absorbs light having a desired wavelength and emits excited light, and a scattering particle which scatters the excited light.

Abstract: An electronic device may have a housing in which components are mounted that produce heat. The heat producing components may be light-emitting diodes mounted on a flexible printed circuit in a display backlight, may be integrated circuits, or may be other devices that generate heat during operation. A heat spreading layer such as a layer of graphite may be attached to the backlight unit or other structures in the electronic device using adhesive. The adhesive may be patterned to form an unbonded area between at least some of the backlight unit or other structures to which the heat spreading layer is being attached and the heat spreading layer. The heat spreading layer may be mounted adjacent to a housing structure such as a metal midplate member that is attached to housing walls in the housing.

Abstract: A liquid crystal cell and method for fabricating the same, a liquid crystal display panel, and a display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal cell comprises an active area and a dummy area, and comprises a first and second substrate which are arranged oppositely and separated by spacers, and liquid crystal arranged between the first and second substrate. The liquid crystal cell further comprises a volume variation compensating component which is arranged in the active area, and the volume variation compensating component comprises a material with a thermal expansion coefficient opposite to that of the liquid crystal, so as to compensate variation in the volume of liquid crystal when temperature varies. Not only defects of gravity mura at high temperature and bubbles at low temperature are eliminated to spread LC Margin, but also the scope of application environment for the liquid crystal display panel is expanded.

Abstract: A touch display panel comprises a color film substrate, which comprises a conducting layer arranged on a transparent substrate. The conducting layer comprises a plurality of first and second wires, and a color resistance insulating layer lying flat on the conducting layer, where the color resistance insulating layer includes first color resistances with via holes and second color resistances without via holes. The color film substrate also includes a plurality of bridges formed on the color resistance insulating layer, where at least one second color resistance has an extension portion extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the second color resistances, where the extension portion isolates the conducting layer from the bridges between adjacent second color resistances.

Abstract: A multi-view display is switchable between single view and multi-view modes, and uses lenticular arrangement over a display panel which includes birefringent electro-optic material adjacent to a non-switchable optically transparent layer. The non-switchable optically transparent layer has a refractive index substantially equal to the extra ordinary refractive index of the birefringent electro-optic material. In the single view mode, the birefringent electro-optic material defines a non-switched state, and the polarization of the light from the display panel and incident on the lenticular arrangement is linear and aligned with the optical axis of the birefringent electro-optic material at the surface where the display output light is received. In the multi-view mode, the birefringent electro-optic material defines a switched state in which the optical axis is aligned perpendicularly to the display output surface.

Abstract: A light control film (light control member) includes a light transmissive base, a plurality of light shielding portions scattered over one surface of the base, and a light diffusing portion formed on the one surface of the base in a region other than regions in which the light shielding portions are formed. The light diffusing portion has a light exit end face and a light incident end face having a larger area than the light exit end face, and the height of the light diffusing portion is greater than the thickness of the light shielding portions. At least part of the opening of at least some of a plurality of air-cavities has a protrusion which is formed of a portion of the light diffusing portion that projects toward the inner side of the opening.

Abstract: A photoluminescent panel includes a lower substrate, an upper substrate facing the lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and a color conversion layer disposed on the upper substrate. The color conversion layer includes a light excitation particle which absorbs light having a desired wavelength and emits excited light, and a scattering particle which scatters the excited light.

Abstract: A TFT substrate (10) includes a substrate (10a); a TFT (11) supported by the substrate; a scanning line (12); a signal line (13); a first interlayer insulating layer (15) provided so as to cover the TFT; a pixel electrode (16) electrically connected to a drain electrode (11d) of the TFT; and a transparent storage capacitor electrode (17) provided so as to overlap at least a part of the pixel electrode. At least the first interlayer insulating layer has a contact hole (CH) formed therein through which the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the drain electrode. The scanning line includes a first area (R1) in which the scanning line is branched into two branched lines (12a). The contact hole is located between the two branched lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided which includes a liquid crystal panel, a light guide plate having a plurality of side surfaces, a plurality of light emitting elements; a light source substrate having a mounting surface on which the plurality of the light emitting elements are mounted, a light source support member made of metal, including a substrate support plate portion supporting the light source substrate, with the substrate support plate portion coming into contact with a rear surface of the mounting surface, a first surface and a second surface different from the first surface, and a metal frame accommodating the liquid crystal panel and the light guide plate, and including a first contact portion that comes into contact with the first surface and a second contact portion that comes into contact with the second surface.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a transparent electrode substrate including a transparent substrate and a transparent electrode, the transparent electrode being formed on one surface of the transparent substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a pixel electrode substrate including a first layer and a second layer in this order, the first layer including a plurality of pixel electrodes that are located in a region opposed to the transparent electrode with the liquid crystal layer in between, and a first conductive film that is located in a region other than the region opposed to the transparent electrode with the liquid crystal layer in between, the second layer including a second conducive film that is located in a region overlapping the first conductive film. The first conductive film or the second conducive film or both are electrically isolated.

Abstract: A display device is configured to provide a crack detection line running from a first crack detection terminal along a side of a TFT substrate to extend to a second crack detection terminal. A switching transistor for switching between an image display and crack detection is provided at a side opposite a terminal portion between the crack detection line and a video signal line. The crack that may cause disconnection in the crack detection line is detected by turning the switching transistor on, and applying the voltage for lighting inspection to the first crack detection terminal and the second crack detection terminal sequentially in this order.

Abstract: A display device is manufactured with five photolithography steps: a step of forming a gate electrode, a step of forming a protective layer for reducing damage due to an etching step or the like, a step of forming a source electrode and a drain electrode, a step of forming a contact hole, and a step of forming a pixel electrode. The display device includes a groove portion which is formed in the step of forming the contact hole and separates the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided and includes an liquid crystal panel, a diffraction plate, a first polarizer, a second polarizer, a first brightness enhancement film (BEF), and a second BEF. The diffraction plate is disposed on a first surface of the liquid crystal panel and has a diffractive direction. The first polarizer is disposed between the diffraction plate and the liquid crystal panel and has a first absorption axis. The second polarizer is disposed on a second surface of the liquid crystal panel opposite to the first surface and has a second absorption axis perpendicular to the first absorption axis. The first BEF has a first light-collecting direction. The second BEF has a second light-collecting direction perpendicular to the first light-collecting direction. The first light-collecting direction is parallel or perpendicular to the diffractive direction or the first absorption axis.

Abstract: A display apparatus and a polarizer for multi-domain vertical aligned liquid crystal display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display device, a first polarizer, a second polarizer and a diffractive optical element. The first polarizer is disposed on the first substrate. The second polarizer is disposed between the second substrate and the backlight module. The diffractive optical element includes a first diffraction grating and is disposed on a light emitting side of the first polarizer. An azimuth angle the first diffraction grating is counted from an absorbing axis of the first polarizer as standard.

Abstract: A black matrix is formed to an edge of a counter substrate. Then, a BM slit, which is an area where the black matrix is not present, is formed in the periphery of a seal material in order to prevent water or moisture from penetrating from the interface between the counter substrate and the black matrix. Then, a light shielding metal is formed in a layer other than a lead line layer, on the side of a TFT substrate, in order to prevent light from leaking from the BM slit. With this structure, it is possible to prevent the light from leaking from the BM slit around a screen. As a result, the degradation of the contrast can be prevented in the periphery of the screen.

Abstract: A backlight unit and a display device having the same are discussed. According to an embodiment, the backlight unit includes a light source configured to generate light; and a light guide plate configured to distribute the light received from the light source, the light guide plate including: at least one body, each of the at least one body divided into a plurality of blocks, and a plurality of reflective patterns formed on a bottom surface of the body, wherein the plurality of reflective patterns are selectively provided at some of the plurality of blocks.

Abstract: A display device improves horizontal crosstalk and an aperture ratio, and includes: a substrate; a gate line and a data line formed on the substrate; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a light block overlapping the thin film transistor on the pixel electrode; a light block passivation layer overlapping the thin film transistor and the data line on the light block; a common electrode formed on the pixel electrode, spaced apart from the pixel electrode with a plurality of microcavities interposed therebetween; a roof layer formed on the common electrode; an injection hole exposing a part of each of the plurality of microcavities; a liquid crystal layer filling the plurality of microcavities; and an encapsulation layer formed on the roof layer covering the injection hole to seal the microcavity.