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Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 20, 2018
Applicant:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rutger Meyer Timmerman Thijssen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Robert Jan Visser, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Tapashree Roy, Howah, IN;

Assignee:

APPLIED MATERIALS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/002 (2013.01); G02F 2203/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects disclosed herein relate to color filters for display devices, and more specifically to color filters for transmitting or reflecting and recycling colors of light in liquid crystal display devices. In one aspect, a metasurface is formed between two polarizers in an LCD device. In another aspect, a metasurface is formed on a white light guide of an LCD device. The metasurface is formed to transmit desired color(s) of light and to reflect undesired color(s) of light back into the light guide to be recycled and passed through the LCD device elsewhere. Using the color filter to recycle reflected colors of light increases the efficiency of the display device, such as the LCD device.


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