Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jae-Jong Kwon

In-Sun Hwang

Hyoung-Joo Kim

Sung-Kyu Shim

Seung-In Baek

A backlight assembly which can reduce manufacturing costs and enhance display quality of a liquid crystal display ('LCD'). The backlight assembly includes: a light source emitting light; and a light guide plate ('LGP') including an incident surface on which light emitted from the light source is incident, a top surface which adjoins the incident surface, and a bottom surface which adjoins the incident surface, faces the top surface, and includes a plurality of lower prisms separated from one another and flat portions interposed between the lower prisms, wherein each of the lower prisms includes a first surface and a second surface which are adjacent to each other, the first surface including a plurality of oblique planes having different positive slopes, the second surface having a negative slope, and where the slope forms an angle with a line normal to the incident surface.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jae-Jong Kwon