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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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NOTE Samsung offers a proprietary version of IPS called Plane to Line

Switching (PLS). They claim it’s better, naturally, though it functions very

similarly to IPS and can be considered an IPS variation.

Backlights Backlights light up the panel, as mentioned, but vary according

to the technology used and the implementation of the lighting. Current LCDs

use light-emitting diode (LED) technology for backlights; previous

generations used CCFL technology (more on that in a moment). These

modern monitors are marketed as LED displays to differentiate them from the

older CCFL panels. LEDs took over from CCFLs because the former uses

DC electricity, just like the logic boards and panels in LCDs, consume much

less electricity, and give off no heat. LEDs enable super thin screens like you

see on almost every computing device today, from smartphones to tablets to

desktop monitors. Figure 17-13 shows an illustration of a typical modern

LCD; note the inverters missing from the previous figure.

Figure 17-13 Modern LCD internals

The LCD illustrated in Figure 17-13 has two backlights: one at the top and

one at the bottom. That’s a typical implementation for backlights, called edge

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