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MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Spring 2001 Catalogue Supplement |
TR 11-12:30, Room 12-122
Prof. Akinwande, 39-553, 8-7974
Prereq.: 6.002, 6.012 or permission of instructor
3-2-7
Qualifies as a subject in the Materials and Devices Concentration
Description: The course covers the physical principles that are used in the operation of flat panel display devices. Topics that will be covered include: (a) The human visual system and the requirements it places on the display devices; (b) physical principles of emissive flat panel displays - electroluminescence, photoluminescence and cathodoluminescence. Examples will include plasma display, field emission display and in-organic and organic electroluminescent display devices; (c) physical principles of light valve displays -spatial light modulation. Examples will include various liquid crystal displays, deformable mirror displays, electrophoretic displays and membrane mirror displays; and (d) active back planes and devices for large area electronics that are required to spatially and temporally modulate the displays focusing on organic and in-organic thin-film transistors and display drivers circuits.
The course includes a laboratory component in which a simple liquid crystal display will be built and characterized. There is also a design project at the end of the course.
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