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Modern Display Technologies: Flat Panel Displays

Prof. Debabrata Sikdar · IIT Guwahati

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About

This course covers modern flat-panel electronic display technologies, highlighting their technical aspects and applications in various sectors, including automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, telecommunications, military, and avionics, shaping how we interact with electronic systems in everyday life. It presents some widely-used flat-panel display technologies such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and modern light emitting diode (LED) displays such as mini-LED and micro-LED, highlighting their working principles, design and performance parameters, driving schemes, applications and recent advancements.

Intended audience: B.Tech (Final year), M.Tech, M.Sc, and PhD students & Members of R&D in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Nanotechnology and Material Engineering

Prerequisites: Basic electromagnetic theory and semiconductor physics in undergraduate curriculum.

Lectures

Week 1: Introduction to Flat Panel Displays

  1. Lec 1: Introduction to Flat Panel Displays YouTube
  2. Lec 2: Fundamentals of Displays YouTube
  3. Lec 3: Display Specifications of Flat Panel Displays YouTube
  4. Lec 4: Overview on different Flat Panel Display Technologies-I YouTube
  5. Lec 5: Overview on different Flat Panel Display Technologies-II YouTube

Week 2: Color Science and Engineering

  1. Lec 6: Introduction to Color Science YouTube
  2. Lec 7: Fundamentals of Color Science YouTube
  3. Lec 8: Fundamentals of Colorimetry-I YouTube
  4. Lec 9: Fundamentals of Colorimetry-II YouTube
  5. Lec 10: Color Gamut and Light Sources YouTube

Week 3: Fundamentals of Liquid Crystals

  1. Lec 11: Fundamental of Liquid Crystal Physics -I YouTube
  2. Lec 12: Fundamental of Liquid Crystal Physics -II YouTube
  3. Lec 13: Liquid Crystals: Electromagnetic Response and Anchoring Effects YouTube
  4. Lec 14: Elastic Deformation of Liquid Crystals and Properties of Electromagnetic Waves YouTube
  5. Lec 15: Polarization States & Propagation of Light YouTube

Week 4: Transmissive Liquid Crystal Displays

  1. Lec 16: Light Propagation and Electric Field Effects in Liquid Crystal Displays (Part-A) YouTube
  2. Lec 17: Effects of Electric Field on Liquid Crystals (Part-B) YouTube
  3. Lec 18: Electric Field Effects on Liquid Crystal Displays (Part-C) YouTube
  4. Lec 19: LC Materials: Refractive Indices & Birefringence YouTube
  5. Lec 20: LC Materials: Dielectric Constants, Viscosity, Elastic Constants & FoM YouTube

Week 5: Reflective and Transflective LCDs

  1. Lec 21: Transmissive Liquid Crystal Displays YouTube
  2. Lec 22: In-Plane Switching Mode YouTube
  3. Lec 23: Vertical Alignment Mode: Dynamics & Overdrive YouTube
  4. Lec 24: Multi - Domain VA & OBC Mode YouTube
  5. Lec 25: Introduction to Reflective LCDs YouTube

Week 6: LCD Matrices & Drive Schemes

  1. Lec 26: The Transflector — Four Device Families YouTube
  2. Lec 27A: Classification of Transflective LCDs (Part-A) YouTube
  3. Lec 27B: Classification of Transflective LCDs (Part-B) YouTube
  4. Lec 28: Phase Retardation LCDs & Cell-Gap Design YouTube
  5. Lec 29: LCD Matrices & Drive Schemes-I YouTube
  6. Lec 30: LCD Matrices & Drive Schemes-II YouTube

Week 7: Bistable Displays

  1. Lec 31: Active Matrix Displays YouTube
  2. Lec 32: Bistable Ferroelectric LCDs and Drive Scheme YouTube
  3. Lec 33: Bistable Nematic Displays YouTube
  4. Lec 34: Bistable Cholesteric Reflective Displays and Drive Schemes (Part-1) YouTube
  5. Lec 35: Bistable Cholesteric Reflective Displays and Drive Schemes (Part-2) YouTube

Week 8: LCD Components & Applications

  1. Lec 36: Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals (PDLCs) YouTube
  2. Lec 37: LCD Components I — Light Management YouTube
  3. Lec 38: LCD Components II — Polarizers YouTube
  4. Lec 39: Compensation Films & Color Filters YouTube
  5. Lec 40: Depth Cues & Stereoscopic Displays YouTube

Week 9: Fundamentals of mini-LEDs for displays

  1. Lec 41: Autostereoscopic & Advanced 3D Displays YouTube
  2. Lec 42: MiniLEDs-Backlight Technology YouTube
  3. Lec 43: Fundamentals of LEDs YouTube
  4. Lec 44: Light-Emitting Characteristics of LEDs YouTube
  5. Lec 45: Mini-LED Device Fabrication and Applications YouTube

Week 10: Micro-LEDs-I

  1. Lec 46: Micro-LED Structure and Processing YouTube
  2. Lec 47: Micro-LED Structure and Processing-Part B YouTube
  3. Lec 48: Active Driving Micro-LED Microdisplay YouTube
  4. Lec 49A: Micro-LED Display Characteristics-Part A YouTube
  5. Lec 49B: Micro-LED Display Characteristics-Part B YouTube
  6. Lec 50: Full-Color μLED Microdisplay-Part A YouTube
  7. Lec 51: Full-Color μLED Microdisplay-Part B YouTube

Week 11: Micro-LEDs-II

  1. Lec 52: Manufacturing Process of Micro-LED Display Panel-Part A YouTube
  2. Lec 53: Manufacturing Process of Micro-LED Display Panel-Part B YouTube
  3. Lec 54: Realisation of RGB-Emitting Micro-LEDs Part A YouTube
  4. Lec 55: Realisation of RGB-Emitting Micro-LEDs Part B YouTube
  5. Lec 56: Angular color shift and power consumption of RGB micro-LED displays Part A YouTube
  6. Lec 57: Angular color shift and power consumption of RGB micro-LED displays Part B YouTube

Week 12: LEDs for Next-Generation Displays

  1. Lec 58: Quantum-dot based Full-color Micro-LED Display Part- A YouTube
  2. Lec 59: Quantum-dot based Full-color Micro-LED Display-Part B YouTube
  3. Lec 60: Quantum-dot based Full-color Micro-LED Display-Part C YouTube
  4. Lec 61: Quantum-dot based Full-color Micro-LED Display-Part D YouTube
  5. Lec 62: Quantum-dot based Full-color Micro-LED Display-Part E YouTube
  6. Lec 63: Quantum-dot based Full-color Micro-LED Display-Part F YouTube
  7. Lec 64: Mini-LED and Micro LED Displays: Present & Future Perspectives-Part A YouTube
  8. Lec 65:Mini-LED and Micro LED Displays: Present & Future Perspectives-Part B YouTube
  9. Lec 66: Mini-LED and Micro LED Displays: Present & Future Perspectives-Part C YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Guwahati
Department
Electrical Engineering
Teacher
Prof. Debabrata Sikdar
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Source
NPTEL
Licence
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