Liquid crystal display with neutral dark state
First Claim
1. A liquid crystal display, comprising:
- a switched-in-plane (SIP) liquid crystal display (LCD) cell; and
a first absorbing polarizer disposed on a first side of the LCD cell, the first absorbing polarizer including a layer of polarization-sensitive absorbing material, material layers between the layer of polarization-sensitive absorbing material and the LCD cell being free of cellulose triacetate (TAC).
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Abstract
A polarizer is used with a liquid crystal display (LCD) cell whose liquid crystal molecules are switched in the plane of the cell. The LCD has birefringent properties that are different from other types of LCD cell and, unlike other types of LCD, the image contrast is maintained and there is little color shift in the dark state when a low birefringence polarizer is used with the SIP LCD cell. In one embodiment, the x-z retardation of the layers between the polarization-sensitive absorbing layer and the LCD is less than 20 nm. In another embodiment, the x-z birefringence is less than 0.0005. The low levels of retardation and birefringence may be achieved by omitting the commonly used cellulose triacetate layer between the polarization-sensitive absorbing layer and the LCD.
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34 Claims
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1. A liquid crystal display, comprising:
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a switched-in-plane (SIP) liquid crystal display (LCD) cell; and
a first absorbing polarizer disposed on a first side of the LCD cell, the first absorbing polarizer including a layer of polarization-sensitive absorbing material, material layers between the layer of polarization-sensitive absorbing material and the LCD cell being free of cellulose triacetate (TAC). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A liquid crystal display, comprising:
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a switched-in-plane (SIP) liquid crystal display (LCD) cell; and
a first absorbing polarizer, comprising one or more layers including at least an absorbing polarizing layer, disposed on a first side of the LCD cell, the first absorbing polarizer and the LCD cell each lying parallel to an x-y plane defined by orthogonal x- and y-axes, a z-axis being orthogonal to both the x-axis and the y-axis, the first absorbing polarizer defining a transmission polarization direction for light transmitted through the first absorbing polarizer, the transmission polarization direction being parallel to the x-axis, wherein an x-z retardation coefficient, bxz total, is defined for the first absorbing polarizer as
bxz total=Σ
(nxi−
nz)1i,where nxi is the refractive index for light polarized parallel to the x-axis in the ith layer of the first absorbing polarizer, nzi is the refractive index for light polarized parallel to the z-axis in the ith layer of the first absorbing polarizer and lI is the thickness of the ith layer of the first absorbing polarizer in the z-direction, where i is an integer identifying different layers of the first absorbing polarizer, and bxz total=Σ
(nxi−
nzi)1i is less than 20 nm. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A liquid crystal display, comprising:
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a switched-in-plane (SIP) liquid crystal display (LCD) cell; and
a first absorbing polarizer, having an absorbing polarizing layer, disposed on a first side of the LCD cell, the first absorbing polarizer and the LCD cell each lying parallel to an x-y plane defined by orthogonal x- and y-axes, a z-axis being orthogonal to both the x-axis and the y-axis, the first absorbing polarizer defining a transmission polarization direction for light transmitted through the first absorbing polarizer, the transmission polarization direction being parallel to the x-axis, where nx is the refractive index for light polarized parallel to the x-axis in the absorbing polarizing layer and nz is the refractive index for light polarized parallel to the z-axis in the absorbing polarizing layer, an absolute value of Δ
nxz=nx−
nz being less than 0.0005. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34)
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