LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
First Claim
1. A liquid crystal display panel comprising:
- a wire grid polarizer which has a pattern of linear conductive wires having a pitch smaller than a wavelength of light for use in a display; and
a light shielding layer,the wire grid polarizer having (i) a first region where the linear conductive wires are regularly repeated at a constant pitch and (ii) a second region where the linear conductive wires are at a pitch larger than the constant pitch, andthe second region and the light shielding layer being arranged so as to at least partially overlap each other when viewed from above.
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Abstract
A wire grid polarizer (WG) has (i) a region where linear conductive wires are regularly repeated at a constant pitch (P) and (ii) a region (A) where linear conductive wires are at a pitch larger than the constant pitch (P). The region (A) where the linear conductive wires are at a pitch larger than the constant pitch (P) and a black matrix (2b) included in a liquid crystal display panel are arranged so as to at least partially overlap each other when viewed from above. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress a reduction in display quality even in a case of employing a large-area wire grid polarizer (WG) which has a region where regularity of a pattern of linear conductive wires having a pitch smaller than a wavelength of light for use in a display is disturbed.
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15 Claims
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1. A liquid crystal display panel comprising:
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a wire grid polarizer which has a pattern of linear conductive wires having a pitch smaller than a wavelength of light for use in a display; and a light shielding layer, the wire grid polarizer having (i) a first region where the linear conductive wires are regularly repeated at a constant pitch and (ii) a second region where the linear conductive wires are at a pitch larger than the constant pitch, and the second region and the light shielding layer being arranged so as to at least partially overlap each other when viewed from above. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for producing a liquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel including (i) a wire grid polarizer which has a pattern of linear conductive wires having a pitch smaller than a wavelength of light for use in a display and (ii) substrates, said method comprising the steps of:
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(A) forming, on one of the substrates, a light shielding layer patterned into a predetermined shape; (B) forming, evenly on an entire surface of said one of the substrates, a conductive film which is to be formed into the conductive wires; (C) forming a resist so that the resist covers the conductive film; (D) curing a part of the resist while pressing a patterned surface of a first mold against the part of the resist, the patterned surface being a surface in which linear patterns regularly repeated at a constant pitch smaller than the wavelength of the light are formed, to thereby form in the resist a first transferred surface on which the linear patterns in the patterned surface have been transferred; (E) after relocating the first mold to a position adjacent to the first transferred surface, curing another part of the resist while pressing the patterned surface of the first mold against said another part of the resist to thereby form in the resist a second transferred surface on which the linear patterns in the patterned surface have been transferred; in steps (D) and (E), locating the first mold such that a border between the first transferred surface and the second transferred surface at least partially overlaps the light shielding layer when viewed from above; (F) etching the conductive film by using cured resist patterns as masks; and (G) removing the cured resist patterns. - View Dependent Claims (12, 14)
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10. A method for producing a liquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel including (i) a wire grid polarizer which has a pattern of linear conductive wires having a pitch smaller than a wavelength of light for use in a display and (ii) substrates, said method comprising the steps of:
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(A) forming, on one of the substrates, a light shielding layer patterned into a predetermined shape; (B) forming, evenly on an entire surface of said one of the substrates, a conductive film which is to be formed into the conductive wires; (C) forming a resist so that the resist covers the conductive film; (D) curing the resist while pressing a patterned surface of a second mold against the resist, the patterned surface of the second mold having (i) a first region in which linear patterns regularly repeated at a constant pitch smaller than the wavelength of the light are formed and (ii) a second region in which linear patterns are at a pitch larger than the constant pitch; in step (D), locating the second mold such that the second region at least partially overlaps the light shielding layer when viewed from above; (E) etching the conductive film by using cured resist patterns as masks; and (F) removing the cured resist patterns. - View Dependent Claims (13, 15)
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11. (canceled)
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