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LED & LCD

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Muhammad Saad Shaukat

10/14/2014

Information about LEDs and LCDs

Table Of Content:
 LED:
 How Can a Diode Produce Light?
 White Light
 Advantages and Disadvantages

 LCD:
 Nematic and Sematic
 How pixels are switched On/Off
 Advantages and Disadvantages.

LED
(Light Emitting Diode)
Light Emitting Diodes are found in dozens of devices with each doing a different task. Some of the things are transmitting information from remotes to the TV, they make up digits in an electronic wrist watch and most of them are used to make large TV screens which high resolution and high image quality.
Nick Holonyak, Jr. (born November 3, 1928) invented the first visible-spectrum (red) LED in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company laboratory in Syracuse, New York. LEDs are tiny bulbs that fit easily in to almost any electrical circuit. What makes them unique is the fact that they have no filament cause of which they do not burn out like other incandescent bulbs. They don’t have the filament to burn out so they are very stable and last a long time since they don’t get very hot.
What else makes them unique is that they use movements of electrons in a …show more content…

In front is the screen containing millions of pixels, each one made up of smaller sub pixels which have a specific colour red, blue or green. Each pixel has a polarizing glass filter in front of it and behind it (the front one is at 90°). This means the pixels look dark but in between the 2 polarizing filters there is a tiny twisted nematic liquid crystal they can be switched on or off electronically. When it is switched on it rotates the light passing through 90° effectively allowing light to flow through and illumination the pixels. Each pixel is controlled by a tiny transistor that can be switched off many times each second thus giving different coloured

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