Color gamut variation of LED-lit LCD at different module temperatures

Abstract

In this paper, we have investigated the color gamut variation of a liquid crystal display (LCD) system with tri-chromatic (red, green and blue) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as the backlight source at different color and module temperatures. Since the transmission band of a color filter (CF) is broader than those of LEDs, light leakage from the CF results in changes in the color gamut with varying color temperatures. In our case, the color gamut increased and then saturated with increasing color temperatures. The color temperature increased monotonically with increasing module temperatures whereas the color gamut may increase, decrease, or assume an optimized value in different cases. The latter resulted from the temperature-dependent intensity and wavelength variation of the RGB-LEDs. Three sets of tri-chromatic LEDs with different emission wavelengths were used. We have shown that by using green and blue LEDs with longer and shorter emission wavelengths, respectively, crosstalk due to the light leakage could be effectively suppressed. A stably high LCD above 101% NTSC operating over a wide range of module temperatures from 5 to 70 °C was demonstrated, and an optimal color performance with color gamut 102.52% NTSC was obtained at a color temperature of 6500 K and a module temperature of 25 °C.