About seven years ago, Sharp began manufacturing liquid crystal panels using proprietary IGZO technology. IGZO technology has become the pinnacle of creativity in the production of LCD panels. Traditionally, silicon has been used to manufacture thin-film transistor arrays to drive liquid crystals in panels, ranging from the "slow" amorphous to the faster, in terms of electron velocity, polycrystalline. The Japanese company Sharp went further and began to create transistors from a combination of oxides of materials such as indium, gallium and zinc. The mobility of electrons in IGZO transistors has increased by 20β50 times compared to silicon. This made it possible to increase bandwidth (increase the resolution of displays) without increasing consumption.
Since 2012, IGZO technology has already gone through four generations and for the fifth generation. Sharp's new owner, Hon Hai Group (Foxconn), helped accelerate the move to IGZO LCD technology for Sharp. Taiwan giant's investment helped Sharp launch last year lines for the production of LCD technology IGZO. This means that the amazing Sharp LCD displays will increasingly appear in smartphones, laptops, desktop displays and TVs.
With the fifth generation of IGZO technology, Sharp is already launching some products. For example, about two weeks ago we launch of Sharp's first 31,5" 8K (7680 Γ 4320 pixels) 120Hz monitor. A little earlier it became known that IGZO 5G became the basis of the company's 80-inch TV with the same resolution. Compared to the 4th generation IGZO technology, electron mobility has increased by 1,5 times, which has reduced panel consumption by 10% without compromising brightness and color reproduction. By the way, the IGZO thin-film transistor substrate is suitable for the production of OLED panels. This gives Sharp the chance to create OLED panels that outperform competitors in terms of quality and energy efficiency. Let Sharp surprise us.
Source: 3dnews.ru