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Feasibility Study of the Light-outcoupling Characteristics of a Diffraction-grating-imprinted Light-guide Plate for an LCD Backlight Unit

LCD 백라이트 유닛의 서브 마이크론 회절 격자 도광판의 광 출사 특성 연구

  • Choi, Hwan Young (Department of Mechanical Design Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education)
  • 최환영 (한국기술교육대학교 기계설계공학과)
  • Received : 2020.04.10
  • Accepted : 2020.06.01
  • Published : 2020.08.25

Abstract

The possibility of replacing the condensing-prism film used in conventional backlight units with a light-guide plate engraved with a submicrometer-periodic diffraction grating was investigated. The optimal period for the diffraction grating was determined through simulation and experiment, and the transmission-mode efficiency of the diffraction grating was calculated in terms of the polar angle and azimuthal angle of the incident light. In addition, the effects of the two methods of optimizing the polar angle and the directional angle were compared by simulation, by suggesting the shape and configuration of the light-guide plate, so that more light could be extracted by diffraction. By using a ray-tracing program, the luminance angular distribution of the light-guide plate engraved with the diffraction grating was calculated and compared to the luminance angular distribution for each actual prototype.

서브-미크론 주기의 미세한 회절 격자가 새겨진 도광판을 이용하여 빛을 수직으로 출사시켜 기존 방식에서 사용하는 집광용 프리즘 필름을 대체할 수 있는 가능성에 대하여 연구하였다. 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통해 최적 회절 격자 주기를 결정하였고, 입사되는 빛의 고도각과 방위각에 따라 회절 격자의 투과 모드 효율을 계산하였다. 또한, 회절에 의해 더 많은 빛을 추출할 수 있도록 도광판의 모양과 구성을 제안하여 고도각과 방향각을 최적화하는 두 가지 방식의 효과를 시뮬레이션으로 비교하였다. 광선 추적프로그램을 활용하여 회절 격자 각인 도광판의 휘도 각 분포를 계산하여 실제로 제작된 시제품의 위치별 휘도 각 분포와 비교하였다.

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