The LCD screen is more energy-efficient and can be disposed of more safely than a CRT can. LCDs are, however, susceptible to image persistence. Since LCD screens don't use phosphors, they rarely suffer image burn-in when a static image is displayed on a screen for a long time, e.g., the table frame for an airline flight schedule on an indoor sign. Attempts to maintain the competitiveness of LCDs are quantum dot displays, marketed as SUHD, QLED or Triluminos, which are LCD displays with blue LED backlighting and a Quantum-dot enhancement film (QDEF) that converts part of the blue light into red and green, offering similar performance to an OLED display at a lower price, but the quantum dot layer that gives these displays their characteristics can not yet be recycled. Also due to the use of phosphors, OLEDs suffer from screen burn-in and there is currently no way to recycle OLED displays, whereas LCD panels can be recycled, although the technology required to recycle LCDs is not yet widespread. OLEDs, however, are more expensive for a given display size due to the very expensive electroluminescent materials or phosphors that they use. LCDs are slowly being replaced by OLEDs, which can be easily made into different shapes, and have a lower response time, wider color gamut, virtually infinite color contrast and viewing angles, lower weight for a given display size and a slimmer profile (because OLEDs use a single glass or plastic panel whereas LCDs use two glass panels the thickness of the panels increases with size but the increase is more noticeable on LCDs) and potentially lower power consumption (as the display is only "on" where needed and there is no backlight). LCD screens are available in a wider range of screen sizes than CRT and plasma displays, with LCD screens available in sizes ranging from tiny digital watches to very large television receivers. LCD screens have replaced heavy, bulky cathode ray tube (CRT) displays in nearly all applications. LCD screens are also used on consumer electronics products such as DVD players, video game devices and clocks.
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Small LCD screens are common in LCD projectors and portable consumer devices such as digital cameras, watches, digital clocks, calculators, and mobile telephones, including smartphones. LCDs are used in a wide range of applications, including LCD televisions, computer monitors, instrument panels, aircraft cockpit displays, and indoor and outdoor signage.
Optical filters are added to white on blue LCDs to give them their characteristic appearance. For example, a character positive LCD with a backlight will have black lettering on a background that is the color of the backlight, and a character negative LCD will have a black background with the letters being of the same color as the backlight. LCDs can either be normally on (positive) or off (negative), depending on the polarizer arrangement. They use the same basic technology, except that arbitrary images are made from a matrix of small pixels, while other displays have larger elements. For instance: preset words, digits, and seven-segment displays, as in a digital clock, are all good examples of devices with these displays. LCDs are available to display arbitrary images (as in a general-purpose computer display) or fixed images with low information content, which can be displayed or hidden. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly, instead using a backlight or reflector to produce images in color or monochrome. (In a backlit LCD, this layer is replaced or complemented with a light source.)Ī liquid-crystal display ( LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers.
The shapes of these electrodes will determine the shapes that will appear when the LCD is switched ON.
Polarizing filter film with a vertical axis to polarize light as it enters.