An optical sheet with a cone array is designed, simulated, and fabricated in order to substitute the dual crossed prism sheets in the edge-type LCD backlight. The optimum structure of cone textures that is compatible with the dual crossed prism sheets was obtained by simulating the backlight installed with the cone array optical sheet. A SU-8 photoresist films of thickness 30~50 μm were spin-coated on a polyethylene terephtalate film (PET), and the cone texture array was formed by using the diffuse lithography that employed a photomask with circular patterns and an optical diffuser.

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5. G. Kurata, K. Sakurai, M. Ohira, Y. Kawabata, A. Funamoto, and A. Aoyama, “Sheetless backlight system for mobile phone,” in Proc. IDW "06 (Otsu, Japan, Dec. 2006), pp. 1727-1730.
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Asian J. Phys.

• J. H. Ko, “Recent research trends in the development of new light source for the backlight unit of liquid crystal display,” Asian J. Phys. 14, 231-237 (2005).

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

• M. Brunet, T. O"Donnell, J. O"Brien, P. McCloskey, and S. C. Mathuna, “Thick photoresist development for the fabrication of high aspect ratio magnetic coils,” J. Micromech. Microeng. 12, 444-449 (2002). [CrossRef]

Journal of the Optical Society of Korea

• I. K. Kim and K. Y. Chung, “Wide color gamut backlight from three-band white LED,” J. Opt. Soc. Korea 11, 67-70 (2007). [CrossRef]
• Y. H. Ju, J. H. Park, J. H. Lee, J. Y. Lee, K. B. Nahm, and J. H. Ko, “Study on the simulation model for the optimization of optical structures of edge-lit backlight for LCD applications,” J. Opt. Soc. Korea 12, 25-30 (2008). [CrossRef]

Optics Letters

• J. H. Lee, H. S. Lee, B. K. Lee, W. S. Choi, H. Y. Choi, and J. B. Yoon, “Simple liquid crystal display backlight unit comprising only a single-sheet micropatterned polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) light-guide plate,” Opt. Lett. 32, 2665-2667 (2007). [CrossRef]
• P. J. Caber, “Three-dimensional imaging by sub-Nyquist sampling of white-light interferograms,” Opt. Lett. 18, 1462-1464 (1993). [CrossRef]

Proc. IDW '06

• G. Kurata, K. Sakurai, M. Ohira, Y. Kawabata, A. Funamoto, and A. Aoyama, “Sheetless backlight system for mobile phone,” in Proc. IDW "06 (Otsu, Japan, Dec. 2006), pp. 1727-1730.

Sensors and Actuators A: Physical

• Y. J. Chuang, F. G. Tseng, J. H. Cheng, and W. K. Lin, “A novel fabrication method of embedded microchannels by using SU-8 thick-film photoresists,” Sens. Actuators A 103, 64-69 (2003). [CrossRef]

SID '01 Seminar Lecture Notes F-2/1

• M. Anandan, “LCD backlighting,” SID "01 Seminar Lecture Notes F-2/1 (2001).

Other

• T. Susumu, “Liquid crystal display apparatus,” Japanese Patent 2000-284268 (2000).
• Y. Hira, “Optical film,” U.S. Patent 6,639,705 (2003).
• D. H. Lee, “Optimization design and analysis of LCD backlight unit,” M.S. Thesis, Yeungnam University (2006), pp. 11-13.

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