In this study, the optical simulation software Light Tools was executed to reduce the LED amount used by improving the performance of light guide plate of backlight module with LED illuminator. The improvement of the design including: 1.replacing the V-cut microstructures on the lower layer of the light guide plate by the micro-semispherical lens structures;2.replacing the diffusion film by the micro-semispherical lens structures on the upper layer of the light guide plate ; 3.adding the lateral microstructure on the light guide plate to reduce the dark-area phenomenon. The sizes of upper/lower microstructures, their spacings and the amount of LED were selected as the parameters and applying L18 orthogonal array to process the simulations firstly. Then integrating different kind of lateral microstructures to find the best uniformity, and obtain a set of parameters that could improve the performance of backlight module and then the amount of LED can be reduced. The results show that the uniformity of backlight module is over 88% without diffusion film which have overcome the requirement of 85% in traditional design with 2 diffusion films. This improvement not only reduces the cost from diffusion film, also removes the dark-area phenomenon. Additionally, the amount of LED is reduced to 45 from 48 that retrench about 7% of power. Energy and cost are saved simultaneously.

<p>Cemented carbides based on tungsten carbide and cobalt arecommonly produced by a powder metallurgy route including liquidphase sintering. The pressed compact densifies to almost halfits volume during sintering due to pore elimination. Thesintering behaviour changes with material composition, such ascarbide grain size, binder fraction, carbon content andaddition of cubic carbides.</p><p>This thesis is devoted to the study of constitutivebehaviour, in particular densification, and the microstructuralevolution during cemented carbide sintering. Dimensionalchanges are monitored using dilatometry with and withoutapplied external load. The microstructural evolution isinvestigated with light optical microscopy and scanningelectron microscopy. Thermodynamic calculations are used asreference.</p><p>Constitutive relations are derived for uniaxial viscosity,viscous equivalent of Poisson’s ratio and sintering stressbased on relative density and temperature. The relations areextended to a model describing sintering shrinkage withexplicit dependencies on carbide grain size and binder content.The model is divided in three stages of which two pertain tothe solid state and the third to liquid phase sintering. Solidstate shrinkage is suppressed in a material with coarsecarbides and in the stage of liquid phase sintering grain sizestrongly influences the uniaxial viscosity. The binder contentaffects primarily the later densification.</p><p>The effects of carbon content and grain size distribution onshrinkage have been studied. High carbon content enhancesshrinkage rate, but the effect of grain size distribution israther small. The mean carbide grain size is insufficient todescribe densification for very broad distributions only.</p><p>Shrinkage occurs through rearrangement andsolution-reprecipitation. Rearrangement is studied through theevolution of the pore size distribution and simulatedgenerically using a discrete element method.</p><p><b>Keywords:</b>Cemented carbides, Sintering, Constitutiverelations, Microstructure, Densification, Modelling</p>

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