This course is part of the Active Optical Devices Specialization

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Active Optical Devices SpecializationUniversity of Colorado Boulder

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This course can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5607, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree.
Displays Course Introduction
The course will dive deep into electronic display devices, including liquid crystals, electroluminescent, plasma, organic light emitting diodes, and electrowetting based displays. You'll learn about various design principles, affordances and liabilities, and also a variety of applications in the real world of professional optics.

Course Learning Outcomes
 At the end of this course you will be able to…
 (1) Select a display technology for a given application (LIDAR, imaging, microscopy etc.)
 (2) Design a system around the limitations of a given display technology (ie. addressing)
 (3) Design a system that maximizes contract

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Approx. 8 hours to complete

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Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish

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Course 3 of 3 in the

Active Optical Devices Specialization

Advanced Level

Approx. 8 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish

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Juliet Gopinath

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Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

4 hours to complete

Liquid Crystal Displays

The course will cover the basics of electronic display devices, including liquid crystals, electroluminescent, plasma, organic light emitting diodes, and electrowetting based displays. At the end of this course learners will be able to select a display technology and perform basic design of the display and have a thorough grasp of basic principles that drive display operation. Module 1 will cover the fundamentals of liquid crystal displays, used in most computer monitors.

4 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 66 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

10 videos

Intro to Displays1m

Intro to Liquid Crystal Displays1m

Introduction to Displays9m

Liquid Crystal Displays, Part I9m

Liquid Crystal Displays, Part II4m

Twisted Nematic Cell, Part I9m

Twisted Nematic Cell, Part II5m

Active Matrix Addressing7m

Super Twisted Nematic Cells, Part I6m

Super Twisted Nematic Cells, Part II12m

3 readings

References5m

Reference Values and Equations10m

Access Matlab Online10m

2 practice exercises

Liquid Crystal Displays Practice1h

Liquid Crystal Displays1h

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Electroluminescent Displays

In this module, we will talk about electroluminescent displays. Electroluminescence is the non-thermal generation of light caused by an applied electric field to a material. Displays using this technology have many advantages including fast response, wide viewing angles, high resolution, wide operating temperatures, light weight, and good display qualities. You will learn about fundamentals of this important class of displays and challenges. It's a very exciting topic!

2 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 19 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

Week

Week 3

2 hours to complete

E-ink, Electrowetting, & Plasma Displays

In this module, you will learn about promising display technologies that include e-ink, electrowetting and plasma displays. While the technology is different than the liquid crystal displays, these techniques have their own advantages in terms of contrast, scaling to large areas and ultralow power consumption. I hope you have as great experience learning about these techniques as I have had in preparing the course material.

2 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 27 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM DISPLAYS

by DMMay 12, 2020

A good course including basic information of Electroluminescent Display, Plasma display panels. OLED display would have been incorporated in the course. A good experience.

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About the Active Optical Devices Specialization

The courses in this specialization can also be taken for academic credit as ECEA 5605-5607, part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree. Enroll here.

This Active Optical Devices specialization is designed to help you gain complete understanding of active optical devices by clearly defining and interconnecting the fundamental physical mechanisms, device design principles, and device performance. You will study and gain active experience with light emitting semiconductor devices like light emitting diodes and lasers, nanophotonics, optical detectors, and displays. Specialization Learning Outcomes: *Analyze and design semiconductor light sources, and surrounding optical systems *Analyze and design detection systems for LIDAR, microscopy and cameras *Analyze and design systems for optical device systems that can adapt to the environment at hand. *Use lasers and optical electronics in electronic systems through an understanding of the interaction of light and atoms, laser rate equations and noise in photo-detection.

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