Liquid crystal display device with stripe-shaped unevennesses on the electrodes
First Claim
1. A liquid crystal device, comprising a plurality of pixels each comprising a pair of opposing electrodes, and a ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal disposed between the opposing electrodes so as to develop bistable states,wherein at least one of the opposing electrodes is provided with stripe-shaped unevennesses extending in a direction such that said direction forms acute angles with two molecular orientation directions in the bistable states of the liquid crystal, the smallest one of the acute angles in terms of absolute value not exceeding a cone angle of the ferroelectric liquid crystal in chiral smectic phase.
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Abstract
A liquid crystal display device is constituted by a pair of oppositely disposed substrates each having a plurality of opposing electrodes, and a ferroelectric liquid crystal disposed between the substrates so as to form a plurality of pixels each composed by a combination of a pair of the opposing electrodes and the ferroelectric liquid crystal disposed therebetween. Each pixel is provided with regions of different polarity inversion threshold voltages, and at least one of the pair of opposing electrodes is provided with a plurality of regions having unevennesses at different densities including a region with a higher density of unevennesses corresponding to a region of a lower polarity inversion threshold voltage and a region with a lower density of unevennesses corresponding to a region of a higher polarity inversion threshold voltage.
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1. A liquid crystal device, comprising a plurality of pixels each comprising a pair of opposing electrodes, and a ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal disposed between the opposing electrodes so as to develop bistable states,
wherein at least one of the opposing electrodes is provided with stripe-shaped unevennesses extending in a direction such that said direction forms acute angles with two molecular orientation directions in the bistable states of the liquid crystal, the smallest one of the acute angles in terms of absolute value not exceeding a cone angle of the ferroelectric liquid crystal in chiral smectic phase.
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9. A liquid crystal device, comprising a plurality of pixels each comprising a pair of opposing electrodes, and a chiral smectic liquid crystal disposed between the opposing electrodes,
wherein at least one of the opposing electrodes is provided with stripe-shaped unevennesses extending in a direction such that said direction forms acute angles with two molecular orientation directions of the chiral smectic liquid crystal, the smallest one of the acute angles in terms of absolute value not exceeding a cone angle of the chiral smectic liquid crystal, and a normal to a chiral smectic layer of the liquid crystal intersects with said direction of extension of the stripe-shaped unevennesses.
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