Recent Trends in Optical Materials of Backlight for LCD Display

TFT-LCD BLU has been remarkably developed for a recent few years as TFT-LCD market is increased. Recently new BLU technologies and components are developed as more aggressively than before since TFT-LCD panel requires higher quality and resolution. Especially Samsung Electronics and LG Philips LCD of Korea are major LCD panel makers and the major optical materials of LCD BLU and panel for Samsung Electronics have been supplied by Samsung Cheil Industries. In this presentation introduction to main components of LCD BLU will be investigated details. Also characteristics and applications of optical polymers such as PMMA, PET etc for LCD display will be included and finally recent trends in optical materials for LCD BLU will be shown briefly.