Color Head Down Display Program

Abstract

The purpose of the CHDD program was to develop a large-area AMLCD for cockpit applications. A 4- x 8-in. polysilicon AMLCD with 320,000 display cells was designed with integrated scanners and fabricated. A support electronics system was constructed that accepted multisource RGB video. This system reformatted the video information to drive the display at 180 fields/second and synchronized the display to a color sequential backlight. Moving the color information into the temporal domain, maintained the color pixel density identical to the cell density. A 192 x 192 pixel active matrix circuit with integrated drive and scan functions was fabricated in thin-film single-crystal silicon, using standard IC processing, and subsequently placed on glass to form a transmissive AMLCD. The first assembled 2.5- x 2.5-in. monochrome display shows greater than 85 percent pixel functionality. The speed, low leakage current, and high drive capability of single-crystal silicon devices should allow the fabrication of displays with integrated system-level peripheral circuitry, high pixel density, and improved contrast and optical aperture ratios.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA274807

Entities

People

  • A. C. Ipri
  • D. L. Jose
  • R. G. Stewart

Organizations

  • Sarnoff Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contrast
  • Crystals
  • Display Systems
  • Electronics
  • Fabrication
  • Films
  • Integrated Systems
  • Light Sources
  • Liquid Crystal Displays
  • Liquid Crystals
  • Materials
  • Optics
  • Single Crystals
  • Standards
  • Test Equipment
  • Thin Film Transistors
  • Thin Films

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems