vrijdag 26 november 2010

Super LCD, Explained.

Everything is super these days. Super AMOLED. Super IPS. Super PVA. And now Super LCD. So is Super LCD really super?

Super LCD is man­u­fac­tured by Sony Mobile Display (SMD). SMD has focused on low-temperature poly­sil­i­con (LTPS) TFT LCDs, but with the par­tial acqui­si­tion of Seiko Epson’s Epson Imaging Devices (EID), SMD has incor­po­rated amor­phous sil­i­con (a-Si) TFT LCD tech­nol­ogy, which is eas­ier and cheaper to man­u­fac­ture. Super LCD sports SMD’s VSPEC III wide-viewing angle tech­nol­ogy (branded as Vistarich) com­bined with a new LCD dri­ver that leads to a con­trast ratio of 800:1 and 160/160 view­ing angles (>100:1 CR). Color gamut is a claimed 100% sRGB. Sony reports that opti­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics are equiv­a­lent to organic EL dis­plays, or OLEDs. Super LCD also fea­tures lower power con­sump­tion, low EMI, and Windows-On tech­nol­ogy. That last bit elim­i­nates the air gap between the panel and the glass cover result­ing in less sur­face reflectance. Lower power con­sump­tion is the result of a higher aper­ture ratio and bet­ter light transmittance.



Here’s the text asso­ci­ated with the dia­gram above:

■Existing struc­ture: A large reflec­tion loss occurs due to the air gap between the win­dow and the LCD mod­ule. (Surface reflec­tiv­ity: 12%)
■Window-On struc­ture: The air gap is elim­i­nated by apply­ing the win­dow directly to the LCD mod­ule, greatly reduc­ing reflec­tion losses. (Surface reflec­tiv­ity: 12% is reduced to 4%)

There has been a lot of debate as to which is the best dis­play. Super LCD, IPS, Super AMOLED all have pros and cons but when it comes to color fidelity or accu­racy on smart­phones using these dis­plays IPS and Super LCD come out ahead. Sunlight read­abil­ity? LCD tech­nol­ogy comes out ahead of OLED, even the super vari­ety. The one area that OLED tech­nol­ogy spanks any LCD, includ­ing IPS and Super LCD, is in black lev­els: OLED dis­plays are as black as black can be.

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