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backlight

Typically refers to a light source at the back of an LCD screen (monitor, TV, cellphone, etc.). The backlight is often a fluorescent lamp (see CCFT), and increasingly LEDs, either all white or tri-color: red, green and blue (RGB). See Dolby HDR.


backlight [′bak‚līt]
(graphic arts)
A spotlight that illuminates from behind so that the subject is separated from the background; used in photography.


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SDK'; TSE: 4004) has launched its proprietary gallium-nitride-based near ultraviolet and green light-emitting diode (LED) chips for use in general white lighting and backlighting of large LCD screens, respectively.
The new LCD panel combines the company's glass polishing techniques with its new LED (light emitting diode) backlighting system as well as employs a very flat structure that integrates the LCD's driving circuits directly to the surface of the LCD glass, to achieve the thickness of 2.
However, most of the reverse side of each transparency is covered over, so that the backlighting is confined to specific zones.
 
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