Visual performance is the key factor to bring user experience, a good screen can bring users a
great interactive experience, mobile phone as one of the commonly used electronic products in life,
OLED mobile phone screen is more favored by major manufacturers and users,
but there are still many users and manufacturers loyal to LCD screen.
Today, by the small exhibition from the working principle of LCD and OLEDCompare the pros and cons of bothto uncover the story behind these two brothers
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LCD and OLED
LCD screen structure diagram
The colors we see visually can be presented through the arrangement and combination of the three
primary colors (R, red, G, green, B, blue). A pixel is the smallest unit that describes a digital screen
segmented image, and the resolution we are familiar with is determined by the number of pixels.
Interestingly, the backlight layer of the LCD screen is not a single lamp bead under each pixel,
but all pixels share a large backlight layer. So how do you present a colorful picture with a constant
number of pixels of three primary colors?
When we apply voltage to the control board, it will form a loop through the liquid crystal layer
to connect the negative circuit to form a loop, which will drive the liquid crystal layer to deflect,
which will make the three primary color brightness display cause different proportions to be
presented, and mix to achieve the final desired color.
Polarizers work similarly to blinds
Here we can understand it as a shutter in our lives. By controlling the deflection of the blades of the
shutter to different degrees, the amount of light passing through the corresponding area becomes
smaller, thereby reducing the brightness of a certain sub-pixel, which will make each pixel have
different degrees of light transmission, so as to achieve the colorful picture we see.
OLED screen structure diagram
As a descendant, OLED is not much different from LCD, the full name of OLED is organic self-emitting
diode, this "spontaneous" is the characteristic that distinguishes it from LCD screens.
Each pixel of the OLED screen can be understood as an independently controlled lamp bead,
and different colors can be displayed only by controlling the current injected into the light-emitting
material of the sub-pixels. Therefore, it is not necessary to turn on the entire backlight layer when
you need to display it, as is the case with LCD screens, and only turn on the pixels that need to be displayed.
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OLED advantagesHow did OLED, as a younger generation, gradually become popular in daily life,
and how did it gain the recognition and attention of manufacturers?
Next, Xiaozhan will tell you what is special about OLED
Partial display
The "autonomous" nature of the OLED screen allows each pixel to be turned on and off independently,
allowing the screen to display power, time, notifications or some other custom information with low power
consumption, which is unattainable by all pixels on the LCD screen sharing a large backlight layer.
It is often used in the fields of mobile phone screen off-screen display, hand-held display time, etc.,
and can achieve simple functions with a small amount of power, so as to achieve more interactive effects.
Picture comparison
Due to the "autonomous" nature of OLED, it will also be stronger than LCD in color and picture effect, and the reason for this is the contrast of the picture. Contrast is the ratio between the brightest whites and the darkest blacks in the light and dark areas of an image, and in most cases, the higher the contrast image, the more vivid and intense the colors will be. Let's take black and white, the two most contrasting colors, as an example, where the background is black or white, and the digital effect will be more pronounced than the rest of the colors.
When the LCD screen wants to display black, it needs to completely close the liquid crystal molecules of red, green and blue pixels, but in reality, we will find that the screen background is not black, but a kind of gray, this is because the liquid crystal molecules cannot be completely closed, and some of the white light emitted by the backlight layer will leak out. OLED only needs to cut off the power supply of pixels, so that it can not emit light at all, so as to display pure black in the true sense and achieve the ultimate high contrast, which can also make OLED show more color appearance.
Dynamic effects
When we watch movies, we will find in outdoor theaters and indoor theaters that when the dynamic picture is switched, the outdoor theater LCD screen special effects switching will have a vague feeling of leaving an afterimage, this is because the picture switching, the pixels of the screen from one color to another It takes a certain amount of time, and this time is the so-called screen response time. If the response time is too long, the color of the pixels will not be switched in time when the dynamic picture is displayed, resulting in a chaotic and blurry experience caused by the overlap between the previous frame and the next frame. The color switching of the LCD screen is completed by the deflection of the liquid crystal molecules, so the deflection speed of the liquid crystal layer directly determines the response time of the LCD screen, and the deflection speed of the liquid crystal molecules will be greatly affected by the temperature, the lower the temperature, the slower the deflection, which is why the screen of the outdoor old theater will have a serious drag phenomenon. When the OLED screen is switched in color, there is no deflection of liquid crystal molecules, and it is less affected by the interference of external temperature, and the response time is often faster than that of LCD screen.
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LCD Advantages:Having said so much about the advantages of OLEDSo are LCDs really useless?
Service life
The more delicate the parts, the more likely they are to have problems, and organic matter is more likely to age and change its properties than inorganic matter. OLED screen because of its "autonomous" characteristics, will make different areas of the screen use frequency, OLED screen each area of the aging speed will be different, when displaying solid color content, the aging degree of the deeper area will appear afterimage, this is what we commonly call "screen burning". For users, if there is a problem with even one area of the screen, then it is no different from all problems. The LCD screen because the light-emitting part is the entire backlight layer, so even if different areas of the screen are aged, the degree of aging is the same, although there will be an overall color difference, but there will be no disharmony of blue and purple. This is also LCD has been cultivated in industrial control, medical, marine and other precision fields, suitable for extreme environments durable and will not affect the effect of conveying information to make it durable.
Vision protection
When we use the screen in daily life, reasonable adjustment of the brightness of the screen according to the ambient light will make our eyes more comfortable, so the manufacturer will carry out reasonable screen adjustment to make users get a better visual experience. There are two main ways to dim existing screens. DC dimming: The brightness of the screen is adjusted by changing the voltage or current that supplies power to the screen. PM dimming: Through the "on-off-on-on-off-off" this kind of light and dark constantly alternates, and the human eye has a visual lingering effect, about 1/16 of a second, the effect of the human eye will stay during this time, PWM is constantly dimming with this principle, and the frequency of PWM dimming refers to the speed of on-off.
Differences between different dimming.
(Usually not visible to the naked eye)There is no problem with LCD screen using DC dimming, while OLED screen due to its display principle, if DC dimming is used, the screen will display uneven colors when the brightness is low, which is what we call "rag screen". Therefore, most of the OLED screens on the market use PWM dimming, if the frequency of PWM dimming is low, the screen will produce strobe, causing visual damage, which is why many people are used to LCD screens, and when switching to use OLED screens, they will feel eye pain and tears, which is the saying of "blind screen".
People are thriving
There are also IPS, TN, VA screens under the subdivision of LCD screens. Large-size screens commonly used in our lives, such as IPS, TN and VA on computers and TVs, all belong to LCD screens, and these three have developed their own tracks by adjusting the structure of the liquid crystal layer.
(It's okay, we have a lot of people)
TN can achieve fast deflection speed but poor color, and is often used in esports and electronic special effects displays, and the fast switching speed allows players to immediately capture the movement of the picture. VA can achieve high contrast but slow response, suitable for medium to large commercial screens, and can bring strong visual appeal and color performance. Although the IPS contrast is not as high as VA, the color is also good, the response time is between VA and TN, which is moderate, and the comprehensive experience and cost performance are the best.