Advantages and disadvantages of display lamp types and LED packaging technology

LED has been widely valued and developed rapidly, which is inseparable from its own advantages. These advantages can be summarized as: high brightness , low operating voltage, low power consumption, miniaturization, long life, impact resistance and stable performance. The development prospects of LED are extremely broad, and it is currently developing towards higher brightness, higher weather resistance, higher luminous density, higher luminous uniformity, reliability, and full color.

1. Types of LED display screens

1. Classification by color

Single primary color display : single red or single green; dual color display: dual primary colors of red and green, 256 levels of grayscale, can display 65,536 colors; full color display: three primary colors of red, green and blue, full color display with 256 levels of grayscale can display more than 16 million colors.

2. Classification based on pixel units

Digital display screen: Display pixels are 7-segment digital tubes, suitable for making clock screens, interest rate screens, etc.

Graphic display screen: The display pixels are dot matrix modules, suitable for playing text and image information;

Video display screen: The display pixels are composed of many light-emitting diodes and can display various video files such as videos and animations.

3. Classification by location of use

Indoor display screen: small light point, dense pixel pitch, suitable for close viewing;

Semi-outdoor display: between indoor and outdoor, not rainproof, suitable for information guidance on door lintels, etc.

Outdoor display: large luminous point, large pixel pitch, high brightness, can work in the sun, with windproof, rainproof and waterproof functions, suitable for long-distance viewing.

4. Press Drive Modes include static, horizontal scrolling, vertical scrolling and page turning display.

2. Types and advantages and disadvantages of LEDs used in display screens

According to the classification of display screens, the pixel LEDs used can also be divided into the following categories:

1. Dot matrix module

Advantages: low cost, mature processing technology, stable quality; Disadvantages: brightness and color consistency are difficult to control, and mosaic phenomenon is easy to occur;

2. Plug-in lamp

Advantages: Color consistency is easier to control, and the pixel spacing can be adjusted freely as needed; Disadvantages: The red, green and blue color mixing effect is not good, the angle is not large, and it is difficult to control the angle consistency. The processing is prone to unevenness, and it is easy to misalign up and down.

3. Patch

Advantages: the display color, color mixing effect, angle consistency, etc. are the best; Disadvantages: high cost of packaging and processing;

3. LED packaging for display screens Technical requirements

Different application locations will use display screens of different specifications, and different display screens require LED devices with different technical requirements. So what are the technical requirements for LEDs used in display screens? The following is an explanation of each one according to different categories:

1. SMD LED for indoor display screen.

SMD LEDs for indoor display screens are divided into "three-in-one" and "three-in-one". The former is mostly used in relatively low-cost fields with low display requirements, while the latter has better display effects and relatively higher costs. The following mainly explains "three-in-one";

1. Brightness:

The first thing to consider is the appropriate ratio of product brightness. At present, the red, green and blue brightness of most full-color display screens are matched according to the ratio of 3:6:1 (that is, the red brightness accounts for 30%, the green accounts for 60%, and the blue accounts for 10%). Generally speaking, packaging factories and upstream chip manufacturers almost all test products according to 20mA, but when it is actually applied to display screens, it is almost never this current that drives the LED lights . Generally speaking, the three types of LEDs, red, green and blue, are made of different chip materials, and their heat generation, light emission and brightness attenuation in actual use are also disproportionate. Generally speaking, the red attenuation ratio is smaller, and the blue-green attenuation is larger. Therefore, in order to ensure that the service life of the display screen is relatively longer, the general designer will set the blue-green driving current lower than the red; for example: if the red is driven at 18mA, the green is driven at 15mA, and the blue is driven at 12mA, according to the IV-If relationship of the LED chip:

We can roughly deduce that the actual required brightness of the LED, the relationship between red, green and blue is:

R: 3÷90%

G: 6÷75%

B: 1÷60%

At the same time, the brightness must be graded. The purpose of the grading is to ensure that the brightness difference of the display screen cannot be seen by the naked eye. Generally speaking, the brightness difference that the human eye can sensitively distinguish is 30%. After deducting the test error of the equipment and the error of the installation mechanism, it is better to design the light splitting according to 10%~20% grading.

2. Color:

According to the optical effect, white light is decomposed into a variety of colors after passing through a prism. The colors are red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple. This is the visible spectrum . Among them, the human eye is most sensitive to red, green, and blue. The human eye is like a three-color receptor system. Most colors can be synthesized by red, green, and blue in different proportions. Similarly, most monochromatic light can also be decomposed into red, green, and blue.

This is the most basic principle of colorimetry, namely the principle of three primary colors. The three primary colors are independent of each other, and any one of the primary colors cannot be synthesized by the other two colors. Red, green and blue are the three primary colors, and the color range synthesized by these three colors is the widest. Adding the three primary colors of red, green and blue in different proportions to mix colors is called additive color mixing. The three primary colors are three colors that are independent of each other, and any one of them cannot be produced by mixing the other two colors.

The color obtained by adding the three primary colors in different proportions is called additive color mixing. The rule is:

Red + Green = Yellow

Red + Blue = Purple

Blue + Green = Cyan

Red + Blue + Green = White

The best color combination for LED displays is: red 620-630nm, green 520-530nm, blue 465-475nm. Of course, this range can be narrowed according to actual needs, such as 3nm for red and 2.5nm for blue and green.

Angle: Actually, the bigger the angle, the better. But more importantly, the angle is not just big. The angle curve should be full and smooth, and the red, green and blue should overlap. Otherwise, after the display is completed, some positions will show dark areas, or one color will be particularly bright or dark.

3. Electrical parameters:

The electrical parameters of LED are mainly reflected in forward voltage (vf), reverse current (Ir) and anti-static ( ESD ). Generally, 5V DC power supply is used for constant current driving. Therefore, the Vf of LED is generally not required to be too consistent, as long as it is controlled within a reasonable range (generally 1.8-2.2v for red, 3.0-3.4v for blue and green). Generally speaking, the larger the ESD, the better, because ESD is everywhere, so the larger the ESD of LED, the less likely it is to have problems in the processing of display screens. The reverse current requires Vr=5v, Ir≦10uA.

Oval direct-plug LED for outdoor display

LEDs for outdoor displays are generally oval-shaped plug-in lamps. Compared with LEDs for indoor displays, outdoor oval lamps mainly have horizontal and vertical angles in terms of luminous angles . Generally, for outdoor displays, the horizontal visible range is relatively large, while the vertical visible range is relatively small;

Generally speaking, the horizontal angle of the LED outdoor display is about 110 degrees, and the vertical angle is about 50 degrees. The angle of the direct plug-in lamp is affected by many factors, mainly manifested in:

(1) The appearance and shape of the LED package;

(2) The bowl-cup structure of the bracket;

(3) The chip and its structure;

(4) The refractive index of the encapsulation glue;

(5) Consistency of material quality;

(6) Packaging process (i.e., the light-emitting height position of the chip);

Therefore, the angle of outdoor LED display is more difficult to master, which requires not only good design, but also good process design and quality control. With the continuous improvement of technology, the requirements for display screens will become higher and higher, and of course the requirements for LED packaging technology will be equally high.