FAST-NUCES
LED & LCD
Assignment
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
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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
In 1879, Thomas Edison invented the first incandescent light bulb in a competitive community. The invention of the electrical light bulb was built on commutative work done by previous scientists and researchers. Edison was invited to William Wallace workshop to examine the Wallace’s prototype. Edison thought that the prototype has something wrong, “I believe that I can beat you making the electrical light. I do not think that you are working in the right direction” Edison told Wallace [1]. Therefore, he decided to do make his own electrical light and there race was started. After a week of his visit to Wallace workshop, Edison was already invented the first light bulb. The success that was achieved by Edison led to a big success for his company,
The most important and influential invention in history is the light bulb. The light bulb was created by Thomas Edison in 1879. It is used in many different ways today. It is used to help us see during the day and when it is dark out. We use the lightbulb at home, work, school, stores, and even at gyms. Even though Edison was not the one who came up with the idea of the lightbulb, he is credited with making the first successful one. There were twenty-three other people before him who have tried numerously and failed. It took Edison a year to create the light bulb. In that year, he experimented with over 1,400 fibers until he tried cotton fiber. Cotton fiber allowed a light bulb to last 1,500 hours compared to forty hours.
In the industrial revolution Gas lighting was one of the most helpful thing that was ever invented, the person that invented gas lighting was The Scottish inventor William Murdock he first invented gas lighting in his hometown in england in 1792 then he installed gas lighting in an English factory in 1798 but by that time the streets of London, Paris, Baltimore, and the united states were lit with gas lights.
The light bulb was first invented by Thomas Edison on December 31, 1879. Before the people were able to have access to a light bulb they revolved around the sun. People woke up and went to work when the sun rose, and they also went home and went to sleep when the sun went down. With the invention of the light bulb people were able to have extended work hours and didn’t have to solely rely on the sun. Today we have been able to put light bulbs in most of the items that we use on a daily basis. People in today’s society rely on a man made light just as much as they rely on the sun. Without a light people would not be able to travel during the night. We would not be able to function in today’s time without a
The light emitting diodes (LEDs) are low energy, lighting devices with a long lifespan and low energy consumption. The LEDs use specialized power
So one of the things that was invented that have been reinvented is a traffic light. The traffic light was invented in the 1920s by an inventor named William ports. He used the three main colors green, amber, and red. The first traffic light was put
Have you ever wondered were led lights came from..? well I Daniel Mcfarland was born in Pennsylvania on February, 27 1869 and attended Lehigh University for college from 1884-1889. I studied electrical engineering, After experimenting with different sources, I started using glow discharges to produce light. In 1986 I had devised a glow discharge lighting system, creating an extension to the Geissler tube. The lamp utilized nitrogen and carbon dioxide as the luminous gas because they emitted a soft white light. My technique was the first commercially variable light source based on gas discharge instead of incandescence, and it's considered the predecessor to contemporary neon and fluorescent lighting.
This rudimentary bulb consisted of a piece of carbon which glowed when wires were connected from it to an electric battery. Although the light bulb was not truly invented by Thomas Edison in 1879, he is credited as the inventor and is said to have created the first commercially practical incandescent light. Bulbs play a huge role in our everyday lives, and are also incontrovertibly important in the theatre. As an actress and makeup artist, I have to be able to stand out to others; therefore, I give one hundred percent effort to every activity in which I take part. This vital part of the spotlight represents me because I always seem to shine to my fullest potential. Marianne Williamson - an American spiritual teacher, author, and lecturer - and I seem to think a lot alike. She believes when we let our own light shine, “we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” The bulb does the main part of projecting the beam, yet barn doors seem to help as
So, how exactly does all of this work? Each pair of frames comes with six different sets of patterned lenses, which can be layered in a myriad of different ways in order to best suit your visual needs. Each of the lenses has its own specific Moiré pattern (which is a kind of superimposed pattern created by overlaying two identical patterns, and then slightly rotating them away from each other), which filter green, red and blue lights. If you don’t like the show you’re seeing, simply rotate the layered lenses until you like what you see.
The first set of electric lights in a theater were installed in 1882 in Boston. By the 1890s, most theaters had phased out gas lights and candles for electric lights, considering that they were significantly safer than the open or shielded flames (Wild, 2015). Gradually, these lamps had gradual modifications to make them last longer and have a stronger intensity for theatre productions. Tungsten Halogen lamps replaced the traditional light bulb with their oval quartz covering surrounding the Tungsten. In time, Light Emitting Diodes (LED’s) have become cheaper and easier to access. As it has become easier to produce LED’s, they have also begun to be used in the domestic sphere. Since they last longer and use less electricity, they are being
Glow sticks and LED light sticks are commonly seen in popular society at concerts and festivals. However, glow sticks have several other uses and were originally invented for use in the military. In the 1960s, scientists were interested in the light fireflies produced in nature. They discovered that this light could be produced without energy or heat using a chemical compound called luciferin. A Brooklyn-born chemistry specialist named Edwin A. Chandross accidentally identified the chemical mixes needed to create the glow of a glow stick when experimenting with luminol. The first light products using this mixture were created and patented by Michael M. Rauhut of American Cyanamid. The first official glow-stick-type mechanism was granted to
There are a various range of inventors that assisted in the creation of the Light Globe. Although, many sources only worked with small aspects such as electric batteries, lamps and developed the bulbs. The first contributing inventor was Alessandro Volta, an Italian scientist, who invented the electric battery which was capable of generating flowing electricity through a circuit. The next was Humphry Davy who created the first Electric Light Globe, also known as the Arc Light, in 1809. He connected two wires to a battery and a charcoal strip which resulted in the bulb to glow. Next, was Hans Christian Oested, a Danish scientist, who made
In 1882 Edward Johnson invented the first set of electric tree lights. Johnson had worked under Thomas Edison as an inventor. The first tree lit by these new electric lights was in New York City. Johnson invented a string of 80 light bulbs. He then went on to become vice-president of Edison's electric company. By 1890 Christmas lights were being mass produced and used mainly in department store window displays. Electric lights didn't gain in popularity among American households until a few decades later.
The author’s central claim about LEDs is that they will help people without electricity. According to Weaving with Light, by Emily Sohn, “Portable Lights have the potential to transform the lives of people without electricity around the world”. Here, the word transform has a positive connotation, because the sentence is about helping people around the world. To further support her claim, the author states that “With just 3 hours of exposure to sunlight, the battery accumulates enough charge to power a Portable Light for 10 hours… a membrane switch, like the soft buttons on a microwave oven, allows a user to turn the lights on or off.” This quote shows that the user only has to charge the light for a third of the time they want to use it, and
This study is beneficial to people who live in places that have extreme temperature changes. The conclusion of this experiment will provide people who live in climate changing places with the right answer, whether or not purchasing a different colored LED light is beneficial or not. With the knowledge of which color LED lights perform the best these people can purchase the most reliable flashlights in case of an emergency. For instance, let's say that there is a power outage during a storm and someone cannot come to fix your air conditioner and you live in a hot environment. Knowing if the colored LED flashlight or the clear LED flashlight performs better in the heat can help. LED flashlights performs just like humans, when we get hot we get tired. Therefore it is nice to know which light will keep the same output after being on for a long period of time.