Physical properties of prism foil and its pedagogical applications. Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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1 Physical properties of prism foil and its pedagogical applications Mihael Gojkošek, Gorazd Planinšič, Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Abstract Transparent prism foil is part of the backlight system in modern LCD monitors that are widely used today. Its main function is to optimize the angular distribution of the light incident on the back side of the LCD panel. The foil can be obtained by dismounting any used LCD monitor. In this paper we explain the basic theoretical model of the foil and present several simple experiments that demonstrate or exploit optical properties of the foil. We will show that prism foil can be very useful in several pedagogical applications, which include optical phenomena such as refraction, diffraction and image formation. It will be also shown that the foil can be used as an essential part of a simple laboratory experiment that gives reasonably accurate measurements of index of refraction for liquids. Finally, as a part of high-tech based, easy available device, the prism foil can be seen as motivation resource that encourages positive attitude towards science and technology. Introduction Prism foil is part of common LCD monitors. It employs basic concepts of optics in intriguing way. The price of LCD monitors today is low enough that buying a new monitor is often cheaper than repairing a faulty one. Though this is not in line with sustainable development, it gives an easy access to LCD monitor parts, including the prism foil described here. Before we continue with the examples, let us describe briefly how to get the prism foil and what is its main function in LCD monitors. Vaguely speaking LCD monitor consists of a power supply, electronic circuit and screen. The screen consists of LCD panel, where image is formed and the backlight module, which further consists of light source (usually one or two tubular fluorescent lamps) and several layers that prepare the optimal light for viewing the image that forms on the LCD panel [1,]. Prism foil (called also backlight enhancement film) is one of the foils in backlight module. The main task of this foil is to refract usable light towards the viewer and reflect most of the remaining light back into the display, where it is recycled. Using the prism sheet the viewing angle of light that emerges from the screen is compressed in one direction, increasing the display brightness. More information about prism foil including material safety data can be obtained at [3]. Though disassembling the used LCD monitor is rather straight forward task, one should be careful when removing and handling the LCD panel because it consists of glass plates that can easily brake. 1
2 Figure 1: Structure of a typical LCD monitor screen (starting from the back of the screen): 1-fluorescent lamp, -light guide plate, 3- first diffusive foil, 4-prism foil, 5-second diffusive foil, 6-LCD panel with part of the electronics. Simple observations Let s start with simple observation. Parallel beam of light incident perpendicularly to one side of the foil splits symmetrically into two outgoing beams at angles of about 30º with respect to normal (Figure a). If the foil is turned around so that the light beam strikes its other surface, almost all the light is reflected back, leaving the space behind the foil dark (Figure b). Figure : a) light beam incident perpendicularly to one side of the sheet splits into two symmetrical beams; b) if incident on the other side of the sheet, light beam gets reflected. The arrows indicate the position of the sheet.
3 The structure of the foil is revealed if it is observed under the microscope. Figure 3a shows top view of the foil with 0. mm copper wire placed on top of it to set the scale. Figure 3b shows the side view of the foil (a thin stripe has been cut and placed with cross-section facing up under the microscope). Observations under the laboratory microscope suggest that the foil consists of prismatic ridges with angles of about 90º at their apices and with distance of about 0.05 mm between the neighbor apices. The thickness of the prism sheet is about 0.15 mm. Using a better microscope the distance between the ridges was determined to be 48. ± 0.6 µm. Figure 3: Prism sheet: a) top view and b) side view under the laboratory microscope. A 0. mm copper wire has been placed on the sheet to set the scale. Simple theory We shall assume that the prism foil consists of prismatic ridges with angles of 90º at their apices. First let s study the simple case when the parallel light beam is incident perpendicularly to the flat surface of the prism foil. If the index of refraction of the foil is larger than then the light beam undergoes total internal reflection and returns back into the original direction (Figure b and Figure 4a). If index of refraction is smaller than then the light beam undergoes simple refraction at the prism surface (dotted lines in Figure 4a). If parallel beam of light is incident perpendicularly to the prism side, the beam undergoes two refractions and emerges at angles ±θ 0, depending on which side of the prisms the beam strikes (Figure 4b). Figure 4: Light beam incident perpendicularly to a) the flat side and b) to the prism side of the foil. 3
4 The angle θ 0 can be calculated using simple geometry and the Snell s law at both boundaries. After short calculation the following expression can be found 1 sinθ 0 = ( n 1 1), () which can be rearranged to express the index of refraction as a function of the emerging angle n = sin θ + sinθ + 1. (3) 0 0 In our case we measured θ 0 =30 ±1 what gives n=1.58±0.0 and corresponding critical angle of Measured index of refraction matches reasonable good with , the index of refraction for polyethylene terephthalate (also known as Dacron), which is the reported material that prism foils are made of [4]. General case of refraction of light can also be studied, where light ray is incident on some arbitrary angle to the both flat or prism side of the foil. Comparison of laboratory measurements and results from simple optics analysis shows good agreement of those. Analysis of the general case will be will be published elsewhere. Third medium Let s see what happens when light beam is incident perpendicularly to the flat side of the foil and a third transparent medium (a liquid for example) covers the prism side of the foil. In case this third medium has high enough index of refraction n l, the light beam does not undergo total internal reflection at prism sides but it is rather refracted into the new medium. If the third medium surface on the air boundary is flat, two symmetrically emerging light beams at angles ±θ are observed (see Figure 5). Measurements were made with green laser pointer (λ=53 nm). Figure 5: Refraction of laser light incident on flat side of the foil when some lyquid is present on the prism side. Using simple trigonometry and the Snell s law the following expression relating n l and θ can be found 4
5 ( n sinθ ) + n n l =. (8) By measuring the angle θ and knowing the index of refraction of the prism foil this expression can be used to determine the index of refraction of the medium n l. The range of indices n l that give observable effect depends on the value of n. In our case n=1.58 what gives the range for n l from 1.11 to This range is wide enough to cover most of liquids used in everyday life. Comparison between the indices of refraction for some common liquids measured with the prism foil and values measured with research quality refractometer are shown in Table 1. The method proved to be useful as a first year student project task or home experiment for students. n (refractometer) n (prism foil) Water Vinegar (5%) Olive oil Ethanol Glycerin Paraffin oil Table 1: Indices of refraction for some common liquids as measured with research quality refractometer and with the prism foil. Interplay between refraction and diffraction It is interesting to examine the foil with a laser light more carefully. In the experiment described in this section we used green laser pointer with wavelength of 53 nm and observed the light pattern on the screen which was about m away from the prism foil. Laser beam incident perpendicular to the prism foil in forward direction produces on the screen symmetrical pattern with brightest points in the directions at about 30º with respect to incident beam direction (Figure 6). If incident perpendicularly to the opposite side of the prism foil, again almost all laser light is reflected. Figure 6: Pattern obtained on the screen when laser beam is incident perpendicularly to the foil in forward direction. The photography has been inverted. The observed diffraction pattern is the result of combined effect of diffraction and refraction. In the incident laser beam wavefronts can be treated as plane waves. At the boundary with prism foil wavefronts bend due to refraction but since the distance between neighbor prism ridges a (in our case about 50 µm) is comparable to the wavelength of light the wavefronts are 5
6 no longer planar but curved due to diffraction. At the rare side of the prism foil wavefronts bend again due to refraction and interfere when they meet. At large distance from the prism foil interference can be treated in a similar way as this is usually done for diffraction grating bearing in mind that the direction of propagation of wavefronts has been changed due to double refraction (see Figure 7). Figure 7: Diffraction of laser light after passing through the prism sheet. For clarity only incidence on two right sides of prism ridges is shown. The expression for angular positions of maxima (relatively to the direction of θ 0 ) can be given in following form: Mλ ε M = arcsin sinθ0 + θ0; where M = 0, ± 1, ±... (9) a For the maxima close to the angles ±θ 0, ε M << θ0 positions are given with the following expression and therefore the approximate angular λ ε = M M a cosθ. (10) 0 This expression is similar to small angle approximation of well known diffraction grating formula, except for the cosine factor. As shown in the Table measured values agree reasonably well with values calculated from equation (10). In order to minimize the error of projection we rotated the experimental setup, so that one of the main outgoing beams was perpendicular to the screen. Note that theoretical expression takes into account also the observed asymmetry in diffraction pattern. 6
7 This experiment has important pedagogical value even if we perform no measurements. In textbooks refraction and diffraction are always treated as separate phenomena and to our knowledge no example has been described where these two phenomena occur simultaneously. Presented experiment with prism sheet offers excellent opportunity to demonstrate the interplay between refraction and diffraction in a simple but efficient way. Alternatively, the experiment can serve for testing students ability in applying acquired knowledge in a new situation. M ε [ ] ε [ ] M (meas.) M (calc.) Table : Measured and calculated angular positions of diffraction maxima. Prism sheet and image formation Prism foil can produce virtual images of objects that are placed behind it. Theoretically the same images could be obtained with a single prism [5] but in practice this would require prism of unusually large size (and considerable weight). Place a flat object (such as pocket calculator or mobile phone) on the table on its long narrow edge. Bring prism foil close to the object and observe the image. If prism side is facing the object, only the reflected light can be seen but if it faces the observer, a double-view image that reveals both sides of the object appears behind the foil (see Figure 8a). Image formation can be qualitatively explained by tracing the rays from two extreme points on the object (Figure 8b). Each of the two images is showing the object as rotated for approximately 30 and 30 from the original position. This can be easily explained assuming the observer is very far from the prism sheet. In this case the rays entering observer s eyes are nearly parallel. In our case emerging parallel rays can only be obtained if the incident rays are forming the angle ±30 with normal to the prism foil (see Figure 4b with reverse directions of the light beams). The situation is schematically shown in Figure 8c. If size of the object is b, than distant observer can see the projection of the object which is equal to a = cot( 60 ) b. The apparent tilt angle of 7
8 the object can be estimated also from the ratio of the dimensions on the photography. The estimated value for the tilt angle in our case is 7. Figure 8: Double-view image of the calculator that is placed near the prism sheet: a) photo of the image, b) image construction, c) sketch for the simple derivation of the image tilt (a is the size of the object and b is the size of the image as seen by the very distant observer). If two objects are placed symmetrically further behind the prism foil so that the viewing angle of them measured from the sheet is around 60, their virtual images will overlap straight in front of the observer behind the foil. Figure 9a shows two texts and their combined image as seen through the prism foil. Figure 9b shows qualitative explanation of image formation in this case. Note that the image of the foil of paper which is placed between the texts perpendicularly to the board is not visible from the point of observation since it is formed outside the prism foil frame. Figure 9: a) overlapping image of two texts that are written on the whiteboard (note that the image of the foil of paper which is placed between the texts, perpendicularly to the board, does not appear in the image); b) image construction. 8
9 Conclusions Prism foil is component of HI-tech device. By using such items in school physics becomes more relevant to our everyday lives, which usually results in higher motivation for learning. The important advantage of the prism foil is that it employs simple physical concepts. For this reason its pedagogical applications make it useful in both introductory and advanced course of optics. On one hand prism foil can be used in nontrivial experiments that require from students to apply the acquired knowledge in a new situation. On the other hand, most of the experiments with prism foil can be explained using knowledge of basic physics. Using prism foil we showed experiments in which two different optical phenomena (diffraction and refraction) occur simultaneously. Experiments with that combination of optical phenomena are rare and problems like that require from students to think critically. Prism foil also offers simple way how to measure the index of refraction for common liquids with reasonable accuracy. The idea can be starting base for student project work. According to several interesting experiments analysis of the prism foil can be part of the context rich problems and since it is generally not very well known object it can be used to test students ability to construct explanatory models (see plenary talk paper). At last but not least, you can get the prism foil from some broken LCD monitor for free. References [1] Y. Koyama: "Ray-Tracing simulation in LCD development," Sharp Technical Journal 80, (001) [] C. J. Li et al.: "Design of a prism light-guide plate for an LCD backlight module," Journal of the SID 16 (4), (008) [3] [4] [5] I. Galili and F. Goldberg: Using a linear approximation for single-surface refraction to explain some virtual image phenomena, Am. J. Phys. 64 (3), (1996) 9
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