6.987 Flat Panel Display Devices (H)

L TR11-12:30, Room 12-122
Professor Akinwande, akinwand@mtl.mit.edu, Room 39-553
Prereq.: 6.002, 6.004, 6.012 or permission of instructor
3-2-7

This subject qualifies as a Devices, Circuits, and Systems Engineering Concentration subject.

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. 6 EDPs.

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.

Please contact Professor Akinwande at akinwand@mtl.mit.edu if you have any questions. Also see http://hackman.mit.edu/6976 for previous versions of the course.