Transflective liquid crystal display with partial switching
First Claim
1. A method of producing high reflection (R) and transmission (T) transflective liquid crystal displays (LCDs) with a single gap, comprising the step of:
- providing a single gap liquid crystal display (LCD) having a licquid crystal layer between a discontinuous pixel electrode and a common electrode, the liquid crystal layer having a cell gap thickness d that is approximately identical throughout the single cell gap liquid crystal display;
reducing the birefringence change Δ
n of reflective pixels (R) in the single gap liquid crystal display (LCD) by approximately ½
by partially switching molecules in the reflective pixels (R) approximately 45 degrees so that total retardation Δ
nd of the reflective pixels (R) is approximately equal to total retardation Δ
nd of transmissive pixels in the single gap LCD; and
applying an electric field between the discontinuous pixel electrode and the common electrode to generate a fringing field in the reflective pixels (R) to partially switch the liquid crystal molecules to said approximately 45 degrees to achieve said total retardation Δ
nd in the reflective pixels (R), wherein said total retardation Δ
nd is achieved without the use of compensators, polarizers and alignment films for obtaining the approximately 45 degree reorientation of the liquid crystal molecules.
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Abstract
A high reflection and transmission transflective liquid crystal display (TLCD) that requires only a single cell gap. Instead of reducing the cell gap of the R sub-pixel region, the invention reduces the birefringence change Δn of reflective pixels (R) so that the total retardation change Δnd of R is equal to that of the transmissive pixels (T). This is realized by a partial switching of the pixels of approximately 45 degrees which occurs in the reflective pixel (R) region of the single cell gap by applying fringing fields, generated by a discontinuous electrode, to the molecules in the reflective pixel (R) region of the cell gap.
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5 Claims
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1. A method of producing high reflection (R) and transmission (T) transflective liquid crystal displays (LCDs) with a single gap, comprising the step of:
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providing a single gap liquid crystal display (LCD) having a licquid crystal layer between a discontinuous pixel electrode and a common electrode, the liquid crystal layer having a cell gap thickness d that is approximately identical throughout the single cell gap liquid crystal display; reducing the birefringence change Δ
n of reflective pixels (R) in the single gap liquid crystal display (LCD) by approximately ½
by partially switching molecules in the reflective pixels (R) approximately 45 degrees so that total retardation Δ
nd of the reflective pixels (R) is approximately equal to total retardation Δ
nd of transmissive pixels in the single gap LCD; andapplying an electric field between the discontinuous pixel electrode and the common electrode to generate a fringing field in the reflective pixels (R) to partially switch the liquid crystal molecules to said approximately 45 degrees to achieve said total retardation Δ
nd in the reflective pixels (R), wherein said total retardation Δ
nd is achieved without the use of compensators, polarizers and alignment films for obtaining the approximately 45 degree reorientation of the liquid crystal molecules. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A high reflection (R) and transmission (T) transflective liquid crystal display (TLCD), comprising:
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a single gap liquid crystal display (LCD) having transmissive pixels (T) and reflective pixels (R) in a transmissive region and a reflective region that has a mirror-reflector with a thickness, the single gap liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal layer thickness between a discontinuous reflective pixel electrode and a common electrode that remains identical in both the transmissive region and the reflective region when taking into account the thickness of the mirror-reflector in the reflective region; and
,means for applying an electric field between the discontinuous pixel electrode and the common electrode to generate a fringing field in the reflective pixels (R) to partially switch the liquid crystal molecules to approximately 45 degrees in the reflective region to reduce the birefringence change Δ
n of reflective pixels (R) in a single gap liquid crystal display (LCD) to approximately Δ
n/2 without reducing the cell gap d so that total retardation Δ
nd of the reflective pixels (R) is approximately equal to the total retardation Δ
nd of the transmissive pixels in the single gap LCD, wherein said total retardation Δ
nd is achieved without the use compensators, polarizers and alignment films for obtaining the approximately 45 degree reorientation of the liquid crystal molecules. - View Dependent Claims (5)
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