Abstract: A silicon waveguide comprising a waveguide core that comprises a first positively doped (P1) region vertically adjacent to a second positively doped (P2) region. The P2 region is more heavily positively doped than the P1 region. A first negatively doped (N1) region is vertically adjacent to a second negatively doped (N2) region. The N2 region is more heavily negatively doped than the N1 region. The N2 region and the P2 region are positioned vertically adjacent to form a positive-negative (PN) junction. The N1 region, the N2 region, the P1 region, and the P2 region are positioned as a vertical PN junction and configured to completely deplete the P2 region of positive ions and completely deplete the N2 region of negative ions when a voltage drop is applied across the N1 region, the N2 region, the P1 region, and the P2 region.

Abstract: A semiconductor optical modulator includes a substrate having a principal surface; a waveguide disposed on the principal surface of the substrate, the waveguide extending in a first direction; a first electrode disposed on the waveguide, the first electrode being in contact with an upper surface of the waveguide; a first wiring connected to the first electrode, the first wiring extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a build-up portion connected to the first wiring; a second wiring connected to the build-up portion, the second wiring extending in a plane parallel to the principal surface of the substrate; and a resin layer disposed on the substrate, the resin layer embedding the first wiring and the build-up portion. The build-up portion extends along a third direction, the third direction intersecting perpendicularly to the principal surface of the substrate. The second wiring is disposed on the resin layer.

Abstract: [Task] Reduction in crosstalk between signal electrodes. [Means for Resolution] An optical modulator 1 includes a relay substrate 3 including a substrate portion 30, and signal electrodes 31 and 32, and a ground electrode 33 which are provided on the substrate portion 30, and an optical waveguide substrate 4 including an electrode-optical substrate 40, signal electrodes 431 and 432, and an optical waveguide 42 which are provided on the electro-optical substrate 40.

Abstract: A direct imaging system comprises an illumination unit comprising a plurality of light sources, the plurality of light sources configured to emit a plurality of beams, an optical system for forming the plurality of beams to be aligned in position or angle, an acoustic optical modulator positioned to receive the plurality of beams aligned in one of position or angle and to consecutively diffract different portions of the plurality of beams as an acoustic wave propagates in an acoustic direction, and a scanning element adapted to scan an exposure plane with the plurality of beams modulated by the acoustic optical modulator at a scanning velocity, wherein the scanning velocity is selected to incoherently unite the different portions of the plurality of beams into a single exposure spot.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for producing a 2D/3D switchable integral imaging liquid crystal cell, and a liquid crystal cell, the method comprising the following steps: 1) coating a UV adhesive layer on a lower substrate; 2) imprinting grooves on the UV adhesive layer by using an array and then UV-curing the UV adhesive layer; 3) coating a lower transparent conductive film on the cured UV adhesive layer, and planarizing the grooves; and 4) forming a liquid crystal cell with the lower substrate and an upper substrate which is coated with an upper transparent conductive film on a lower surface thereof. 2D and 3D displays are switchable in the liquid crystal cell obtained by the method of the present disclosure, thereby achieving comparable displays of 2D and 3D images through simple and convenient operations.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a curved-surface display having a desired curved shape using a flat display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate includes: paring partially outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate so as to reduce thicknesses thereof to a predetermined thickness; attaching a polarizer on at least one of the pared outer surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate; and attaching a reinforcing plate having the same shape with the desired curved shape and light transmitting characteristics to the display panel using an adhesive layer which is formed on at least a portion of edge portions of the display panel in a state that the pared flat display panel to which the polarizer is attached is bent to the desired curved shape.

Abstract: A display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes a substrate including at least one plastic layer; and a display layer on the substrate and including a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of pixels. The substrate includes at least one antistatic layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first insulation substrate, a color filter disposed on the first insulation substrate and including a stepped region, a passivation layer disposed on the color filter and including an opening region overlapping with the stepped region, a pixel electrode disposed on the passivation layer including the opening region, a second insulation substrate facing the first insulation substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second insulation substrate and including a cross-shaped cutout, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second insulation substrates.

Abstract: A display device includes display units arranged in an array and a light guide unit. Each display unit includes a display panel including a display surface configured for displaying an image, and a frame located adjacent to edges of the display surface. The light guide unit includes a lower light guide and an upper light guide. The lower light guide is located above the display units, and includes first gratings. Each first grating corresponds to a side of one of the display unit and is configured for refracting light emitted from the display surface towards the corresponding side of the display unit. The upper light guide is located above the lower light guide and includes second gratings. Each second grating corresponds to one of the first gratings and is configured for reversely refracting light transmitted through the first grating towards a center of the display unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprises: a substrate having a plurality of pixel regions; first electrode formed on the substrate in each of the pixel regions and including a plurality of separated branch electrodes; a cover layer forming a cavity with the substrate, the cover layer including side walls formed on the substrate to partition the plurality of pixel regions and a roof formed on the side walls; a second electrode formed on a bottom surface of the cover layer; a capping layer formed in the cavity to cover the first electrode on the substrate and to cover the second electrode on the bottom surface of the roof; an alignment layer formed on the capping layer; and a liquid crystal layer formed through injection of liquid crystal molecules into the cavity.

Abstract: A transparent conductive film includes a transparent substrate, an undercoat layer, and a transparent conductive layer. The undercoat layer has a refractive index of from 1.5 to 2.0, which is higher than a refractive index of the transparent substrate and lower than a refractive index of the transparent conductive layer. The undercoat layer includes a refractive material having a refractive index of 2.0 or greater in an amount of 40 wt. % or less. The undercoat layer satisfies: X (Si30)/X (C30)?0.28??(1) X (Si40)/X (C40)?0.23??(2) where X (Si30) and X (C30) are silicon and carbon atom contents in a portion of 30 nm or less in thickness from the transparent conductive layer. X (Si40) and X (C40) are silicon and carbon atom contents in a portion of 40 nm or more in thickness from the transparent conductive layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; a TFT disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode connected with the TFT and disposed on the TFT; a common electrode positioned on the pixel electrode and separated from the pixel electrode by a microcavity; a roof layer disposed on the common electrode; an injection hole disposed in the common electrode and the roof layer along a long-axial direction of the substrate to expose a part of the microcavity; a liquid crystal layer filling the microcavity; a first polarizer having a polarization axis in a short-axial direction of the substrate on the roof layer; and a second polarizer having a polarization axis in a long-axial direction of the substrate below the substrate, in which heights of edges in the long-axial and short-axial directions of the substrate are larger than a height of the center of the substrate.

Abstract: A film for a backlight unit including a semiconductor nanocrystal-polymer composite film including a semiconductor nanocrystal and a matrix polymer in which the semiconductor nanocrystal is dispersed, wherein the matrix polymer is a polymer produced by a polymerization of a multifunctional photo-curable oligomer, a mono-functional photo-curable monomer, and a multifunctional photo-curable cross-linking agent, the multifunctional photo-curable oligomer has an acid value of less than or equal to about 0.1 mg of KOH/g, and a content (A1) of a first structural unit derived from the multifunctional photo-curable oligomer, a content (A2) of a second structural unit derived from the mono-functional photo-curable monomer, and a content (A3) of a third structural unit derived from the multifunctional photo-curable cross-linking agent satisfy Equation 1: A1<(A2+A3).

Abstract: An LCD module includes a screen, a light diffusion plate, a first lens, a second lens and an LED. The second lens covers the first lens which in turn covers the LED. The first lens has a first fly-eye lens array formed on a light-incident face thereof and a second fly-eye lens array formed on a light-emergent face thereof. Each of the first fly-eye lens array and the second fly-eye lens array includes multiple convex micro-lenses. The second lens is a light diffusion lens. Light emitted from the LED is diffused by the first lens and the second lens to uniformly illuminate the screen through the light diffusion plate.

Abstract: A direct-type backlight module unit of the dual-side liquid crystal display comprising: a first display panel, a second display panel, a light source unit is formed between the first display panel and the second display panel; wherein the light source unit comprises a back-bezel including a first side opposite to the first display panel and a second side opposite to the second display panel and a through hole; the light source unit is a light bars made of a plurality of light units wherein a portion of the light bars bond into the first side so that the light units of the light bar is located in the through holes and lights the second display panel, and the other portion of the light bars bond into the second side so that the light units of the light bar is located in the through holes and lights the first display panel. Moreover, the back-bezel can be substituted by a LED light plate with through holes.

Abstract: A backlight unit is discussed, which includes a frame including a bottom and a sidewall extending from the bottom; at least one substrate located on the frame, and a plurality of light sources mounted on the at least one substrate; and a reflecting sheet located on the at least one substrate, wherein the reflecting sheet includes: a first sheet part located on the bottom, the first sheet part including a plurality of holes corresponding to the plurality of the light sources; a second sheet part extended from the first sheet part, the second sheet part including first areas and second areas; and a third sheet part extended from the second sheet part and located on the sidewall.

Abstract: A backlight unit includes a light source and a lens unit optically coupled to the light source. A surface of the lens unit facing the light source includes areas coated with a reflective material for reflecting light from the light source away from the lens, and a transmissive area for transmitting light from the light source towards ran output surface of the lens. A display device includes a display panel, a light diffuser, the backlight unit and a reflective element, the backlight unit arranged between the light diffuser and the reflective element, and the display panel positioned opposite the backlight unit with respect to the light diffuser.

Abstract: A display device includes a housing, a backlight module and a heat dissipation assembly. A first hole is defined in the housing. A hook formed on the housing. The backlight module includes a light bar. The heat dissipation assembly includes a main body and a heat dissipation column. The main body is fixed on the housing via the hook. The heat dissipation column is formed on the main body and exposed through the first hole. The heat dissipation assembly configured to absorb heat generated by the backlight module and dissipate the heat external to the housing.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, there are provided a liquid crystal display substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display substrate comprises: a base substrate; a planarizing layer disposed on the base substrate; and a liquid crystal aligning layer disposed on the planarizing layer. As regards the liquid crystal display substrate, in a place in the planarizing layer that is close to its edge, there is provided a recess.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device with which response characteristics are able to be easily improved without using major equipment is provided. The method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes steps of forming a first alignment film including a polymer compound having a crosslinkable functional group as a side chain on one substrate of a pair of substrates; forming a second alignment film on the other substrate of the pair of substrates; arranging the pair of substrates so that the first alignment film and the second alignment film are opposed to each other, and sealing a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal molecule having negative dielectric constant anisotropy between the first alignment film and the second alignment film; and bridging the polymer compound to give pre-tilt to the liquid crystal molecule 41 after sealing the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal panel includes substrates opposed to each other and paired. The liquid crystal panel includes a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates. The liquid crystal panel includes a sealed portion that includes bending corner portions at positions spaced from the outer edges of the substrates, and surrounds the periphery of the liquid crystal layer and bonds the substrates together. The liquid crystal panel includes main spacers that are interposed between the substrates at the position of the liquid crystal layer and hold the gap between the substrates. The liquid crystal panel includes auxiliary spacers that are interposed between the substrates to fill the portions between the outer side portions of the corner portions of the sealed portion and the outer edge sides of the substrates and hold the gap between the substrates.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display substrate and a manufacture method thereof.

Abstract: In order to increase the transmittance around a pixel and to increase the brightness of the screen in an IPS mode liquid crystal display device, a pixel electrode with a slit is formed on a common electrode through an interlayer insulating film. An opening is formed in the common electrode on the outside of the end portion of the pixel electrode as seen in a plane view. Because of the presence of the opening, the electric field lines from the end portion of the pixel electrode reach the layer above the liquid crystal layer and reach further away from the end portion of the pixel electrode, so that it is possible to increase the control ability to the liquid crystal around the pixel. As a result, the pixel transmittance can be increased as a whole and the brightness of the screen can be increased.

Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a common electrode, a pixel electrode, a first conductive layer spaced apart from the common electrode, and a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer. The second substrate includes a spacer disposed to overlap with the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer on the first base substrate.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a TFT-LCD array substrate comprising a substrate, a gate line and a data line formed on the substrate, a pixel electrode and a thin film transistor formed in a pixel region defined by the gate line and the data line, wherein the thin film transistor comprises a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a transparent drain electrode, and the transparent drain electrode is electrically connected with the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A display may have a thin-film transistor (TFT) layer and color filter layer. Light blocking structures in an inactive area of the display may prevent stray backlight from leaking out of the display. The thin-film transistor layer may have a first substrate, a first black masking layer, a planarization layer, and a layer of TFT circuitry on the planarization layer. The color filter layer may have a second substrate and a second black masking layer on the second substrate. Light-cured sealant may be formed between the TFT layer and the color filter layer. Gaps may be formed in the second black masking layer to allow light to cure the sealant. At least a portion of the TFT circuitry may serve to block stray backlight penetrating through the gaps in the second black masking layer during normal operation of the display.

Abstract: To take measures against the phenomenon of difficulty for the orientation film material to flow into the through-hole when the diameter of through-holes which connects the pixel electrode and the source electrode becomes small. An interlayer insulating film 109 made of SiN is formed on a counter electrode, and a pixel electrode 110 having a slit 1101 is formed on the interlayer insulating film 109. A through-hole 111 which connects the pixel electrode 110 and the source electrode of a TFT has a large opening on the upper side, a small opening on the lower side, and an inner wall extending between the large opening and the small opening. The pixel electrode 110 covers the through-hole 111 on an inner side of the pixel of the through-hole 111 but does not cover a periphery of the large opening of the through-hole on an outer side of the through-hole 111.

Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus, including a substrate including: a pixel electrode; an organic insulating film; a common electrode laminated on the organic insulating film so as to be opposed to the pixel electrode via an insulating layer; a common signal line connected to the common electrode; and a transistor configured to apply, to the pixel electrode, a voltage signal input to a signal line. The pixel electrode is connected to a source electrode of the transistor via a through hole formed through the organic insulating film. The through hole includes, in at least one extending portion formed by retreating the organic insulating film toward an outer side of the through hole, a stepped portion formed by laminating a part of the common signal line.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pixel structure and a detection method of promoting defect detection rate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a columnar spacer. The first substrate includes a pixel electrode, a TFT, and an interlayer insulating layer. The second substrate includes first, second and third color filters arranged in a delta arrangement. Each pixel has a substantially polygonal shape with n vertices (where n is an integer and n?8) or a substantially circular shape. The TFT and the columnar spacer are arranged in a first tricolor boundary region. A contact hole cut through the interlayer insulating layer is arranged in a second tricolor boundary region. Two of three pixels that define the first tricolor boundary region also define the second tricolor boundary region, but the remaining pixel is arranged at a different location.

Abstract: The invention provides an array substrate including an array of sub-pixels, multiple data lines and multiple scan lines. The array of sub-pixels is divided into multiple column groups along the arrangement direction of the data lines and divided into multiple row groups along the arrangement direction of the scan lines. By the arrangement design of a connection manner of the sub-pixels with the data lines and scan lines in the array substrate, when is driven by a dot inversion method, each column of sub-pixels have intervally arranged well-charged sub-pixels and poorly-charged sub-pixels, so that in a liquid crystal panel including the array substrate, brightnesses of various areas are balanced on the whole and the drawback of the existence of bright and dark lines in the vertical direction is improved. A liquid crystal panel including the array substrate, and a corresponding liquid crystal display device also are provided.

Abstract: Tintable optical components such as windows are provided with a controller designed or configured to control the tinting in a manner that resists exposure to damaging thermal shock. The controller determines that a trigger condition for thermal shock is occurring or is about to occur and takes steps to avoid damaging thermal shock. In some cases, these steps include increasing the transmissivity of the optical component or holding the component in a highly transmissive state. In some cases, the steps involve heating the component.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention discloses a kind of electrophoretic ink comprising an electrophoretic display solution which is an electrorheological fluid comprising a base solution, solid particles and an additive, wherein the solid particles account for 5%-50% of the electrorheological fluid by mass-volume percentage. The electrophoretic display solution is preferably a negative electrorheological fluid. The invention also discloses an electronic paper comprising the electrophoretic ink and a display method for the electronic paper.

Abstract: A lighting assembly used in photographing or video recording has a light cover with X-shaped structure, which includes a main body and two elastic supporting rods. The main body has a light holder fitting opening at a center thereof. The two elastic supporting rods are fixed along four edges of the main body in such a way that they cross each other at the center thereof at the light holder fitting opening. The light cover can be folded from a tent-like form to an easy-to-carry flattened form.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a projection device and manufacturing method, comprising the steps of fixing the positions of a red light source, green light source and blue light source so that the light sources are immovable; providing a mirror which is configured to oscillate such that it can scan light it receives across a display screen; positioning an optical component, which is configured to deflect light, such that it can receive red, green and blue light beams outputted from the red, green and blue light sources respectively; adjusting the optical component such that the optical component compensates for variation between the light sources, in the direction in which the red, green and blue light beams are output from the red, green and blue light sources, so that each of the red, green and blue light beams are directed to the same point on the display screen.

Abstract: A projection device of the invention includes a housing, a light engine disposed in the housing, a lens disposed on a lateral side of the housing, and a light direction regulating mechanism disposed on the lateral side and in front of the lens. The light direction regulating mechanism is able to determine propagation of the light in a selected direction after the light passes through the lens.

Abstract: A zoom optical system includes, in order from an enlargement conjugate side to a reduction conjugate side, a first optical group, and a second optical group having a zoom function. The second optical group includes, in order from the enlargement conjugate side to the reduction conjugate side, a lens unit B21 with positive refractive power, a lens unit B22 with positive refractive power, and a lens unit B23 with positive refractive power. The lens units B21 and B22 move with a distance therebetween changed at the time of zooming. A predetermined relationship between a focal length fR of the second optical group in a wide-angle end and a focal length fB22 of the lens unit B22 is satisfied.

Abstract: An image projection method includes: reflecting, by a concave mirror, light having transmitted through one or more lenses after forming an intermediate-focused image of the light; and projecting an image onto a projection plane through reflecting the light reflected by the concave mirror by a plane mirror that has an aspect ratio of 1.9 or more.

Abstract: A resonance locking system for a pico-projector, the system comprising a resonance frequency sensor operative for sensing change in resonance frequency of a miniature mechanical device (10) including a moving mirror assembly having a driving frequency, by comparing a current resonance frequency to a reference; and a feedback loop changing at least one aspect of use of the miniature moving mirror assembly responsive to a current value of the resonance frequency measured by the sensor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanoimprint lithography method.

Abstract: The present invention provides a radiation-sensitive resin composition that contains a polymer having a structural unit that includes an acid-labile group; and an acid generator, wherein the acid generator includes a compound including a sulfonate anion having SO3?, wherein a hydrogen atom or an electron-donating group bonds to an ? carbon atom with respect to SO3?, and an electron-withdrawing group bonds to a ? carbon atom with respect to SO3?; and a radiation-degradable onium cation. The compound preferably has a group represented by the following formula (1-1) or (1-2). In the following formulae (1-1) and (1-2), R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent electron-donating group. R3 represent a monovalent electron-withdrawing group. R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: There is provided a pattern forming method comprising (i) a step of forming a film containing an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing (A) a compound represented by the specific formula, (B) a compound different from the compound (A) and capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, and (P) a resin that does not react with the acid generated from the compound (A) and is capable of decreasing the solubility for an organic solvent-containing developer by the action of the acid generated from the compound (B), (ii) a step of exposing the film, and (iii) a step of developing the exposed film by using an organic solvent-containing developer to form a negative pattern; the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition above; a resist film using the composition.

Abstract: A pattern forming method comprises (i) a step of forming a film by using an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing: (A) a resin containing a repeating unit having a group capable of decomposing by the action of an acid to produce a polar group, (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation, and (C) a solvent, (ii) a step of exposing the film, and (iii) a step of developing the exposed film by using an organic solvent-containing developer to form a negative pattern, wherein the content of a repeating unit represented by the following formula (I) is less than 20 mol % based on all repeating units in the resin (A) and the resin (A) contains a repeating unit having a non-phenolic aromatic group other than the repeating unit represented by the specific formula.

Abstract: A chemically amplified resist composition comprising a base polymer, an acid generator, and a basic compound which is a cholanoate having an acid labile group-protected amino group has a high contrast of alkaline dissolution rate before and after exposure and high resolution and forms a pattern of satisfactory profile with minimal roughness.

Abstract: Coating compositions and image forming materials made therefrom, the coating compositions comprising at least one non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions, at least one reducing agent capable of reducing the reducible silver ions, a first binder comprising vinyl butyral repeat units and vinyl alcohol repeat units, a second binder comprising vinyl butyral repeat units and vinyl alcohol repeat units, the second binder having a composition differing from that of the first binder, and a third binder comprising vinyl pyrrolidone repeat units and vinyl acetate repeat units.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photoresist comprising 1 to 90 parts of hydroxyl-containing or carboxyl-containing film-forming resin, 1 to 99 parts of silicon-containing vinyl ether monomer, and an organic solvent capable of dissolving the aforesaid substances. Disclosed is also methods of preparing and using the photoresist.

Abstract: Methods of forming patterns includes guide patterns on a neutral layer. A self-assembling block copolymer (BCP) layer on the guide patterns and the neutral layer. By annealing the self-assembling BCP layer, first polymer block domains and second polymer block domains are formed The guide patterns are formed of a developable antireflective material. The neutral layer is formed of a cross-linked polymeric material.

Abstract: There is provided an illumination optical system for illuminating an illumination objective surface. The illumination optical system includes a first spatial light modulator which has a plurality of optical elements arranged on a first plane, a polarizing member which is arranged in an optical path on an illumination objective surface side with respect to the first plane and which gives a polarization state change to a first light beam passes through a first area in a plane intersecting an optical axis of the illumination optical system, the polarization state change being different from a polarization state change given to a second light beam passes through a second area in the intersecting plane, and a second spatial light modulator which has a plurality of optical elements controlled individually and arranged on a second plane, and which variably forms a light intensity distribution on an illumination pupil of the illumination optical system.

Abstract: Methods for making differentially pattern cured microstructured articles are disclosed, using a molding tool having a microstructured surface, a patterned irradiation to generate irradiate and non-irradiated regions in a radiation curable resin. Different combinations of molding tools and patterned irradiation provide numerous variants of differentially pattern cured microstructured articles without requiring costly modification of the molding tools.

Abstract: An exposure device and an exposure method are provided. The exposure device includes an exposure lamp, a mask plate and a marking equipment. The marking equipment includes a guide rail frame disposed on the mask plate, and at least one marking vehicle disposed on the guide rail frame, a controller. The controller acts to make the guide rail frame move to a corresponding exposure location on the mask plate earlier than the exposure lamp under its control, and to make the marking vehicle lie in a corresponding marking location by dint of its control, for displaying a corresponding marking identification.