Liquid crystal display and fabrication method thereof

• US 8,007,876 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2009
• Issued: 08/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
• Inventors: Wu, Chun-Ming, Chen, An-Cheng, Chin, Chih-Lung, Liu, Shih-Hsien, Cheng, Kung-Lung
• Primary Examiner(s): WU, SHEAN CHIU
• Application Number:
  US12/489,771
• Publication Number:
  US 20100128215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 798 Days
• Field of Search: 252/299.01, 252/299.5, 252/299.7, 428/1.3, 349/185
• US Class Current: 428/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 19/588 Heterocyclic compounds
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2019/3408 Five-membered ring with oxygen(s) in fused, bridged or spiro ring systems
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2323/00 Functional layers of liquid crystal optical display excluding electroactive liquid crystal layer characterised by chemical composition
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13718 based on a change of the texture state of a cholesteric liquid crystal

Abstract

A liquid crystal display (LCD) and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The LCD includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate. At least two layers of cholesteric liquid crystal layers are disposed between the first and the second substrates, wherein chiral dopants with different optical activities are respectively added in the cholesteric liquid crystal layers, and the chiral dopants have the same chemical structure. The fabrication method includes providing a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate. A plurality of chiral dopants with different optical activities and having the same chemical structure are mixed into the same liquid crystal host respectively to form at least two kinds of cholesteric liquid crystal materials. Then, the cholesteric liquid crystal materials are disposed between the first and the second substrates to form at least two layers of cholesteric liquid crystal layers.

Claims

1. A liquid crystal display, comprising:

a first substrate;

a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate;

a light absorptive electrode layer disposed on the second substrate facing the first substrate;

a first cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first cholesteric liquid crystal layer comprises a first chiral dopant;

a second cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the second cholesteric liquid crystal layer comprises a second chiral, dopant; and

wherein the first chiral dopant and the second chiral dopant have different optical activities and

wherein the first chiral dopant and the second chiral dopant have the same chemical structure.

2. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first cholesteric liquid crystal layer and the second cholesteric liquid crystal layer are a left-handed cholesteric liquid crystal layer and a right-handed cholesteric liquid crystal layer, respectively.

3. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the chemical structure of the first chiral dopant and the second chiral dopant is represented by Formula (I):

4. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first chiral dopant is a right-handed chiral dopant having a molecular stereostructure represented by Formula (II):

5. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first chiral dopant is a left-handed chiral and dopant having a molecular stereostructure represented by Formula (III):

6. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the liquid crystal display is a reflective cholesteric liquid crystal display and light permeates through the reflective cholesteric liquid crystal display through the first substrate.

7. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate comprise a glass substrate or a plastic substrate.

8. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first cholesteric liquid crystal layer and second cholesteric liquid crystal layer have identical driving voltages.

9. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 1, further comprising an isolation film disposed between the first cholesteric liquid crystal layer and second cholesteric liquid crystal layer.

10. A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display, comprising:

providing a first substrate;

providing a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate;

forming a light absorptive electrode layer on the second substrate facing the first substrate;

providing a liquid crystal host;

adding a pair of chiral, dopants having different optical activities into the liquid crystal host to form at least two kinds of cholesteric liquid crystal materials, wherein each chiral dopant of the pair of the chiral dopants has the same chemical structure; and

disposing the at least two kinds of cholesteric liquid crystal materials between the first substrate and the second substrate to form at least two layers of cholesteric liquid crystal layers.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the cholesteric liquid crystal layers comprise a left-handed cholesteric liquid crystal layer and a right-handed cholesteric liquid crystal layer.

12. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the chemical structure of the pair of chiral dopants is represented by Formula (I):

13. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein one chiral dopant from the pair of chiral dopants is a right-handed chiral dopant having a molecular stereostructure represented by Formula (II):

14. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein one chiral dopant from the pair of chiral dopants is a left-handed chiral dopant having a molecular stereostructure represented by Formula (III):

15. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the liquid crystal display is a reflective cholesteric liquid crystal display, and light permeates through the reflective cholesteric liquid crystal display through the first substrate.

16. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate comprise a glass substrate or a plastic substrate.

17. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the cholesteric liquid crystal layers have identical driving voltages.

18. The method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising forming an isolation film between the cholesteric liquid crystal layers.

19. A liquid crystal display, comprising:

a first substrate;

a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate;

a light absorptive electrode layer disposed on the second substrate facing the first substrate;

a first cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first cholesteric liquid crystal layer comprises a first chiral dopant;

a second cholesteric liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the second cholesteric liquid crystal layer comprises a second chiral dopant; and

wherein the first chiral dopant and the second chiral dopant have different optical activities, wherein the first chiral dopant and the second chiral dopant have the same chemical structure, wherein the first cholesteric liquid crystal layer and the second cholesteric liquid crystal layer are a left-handed cholesteric liquid crystal layer and a right-handed cholesteric liquid crystal layer, respectively, wherein the first chiral dopant is a left-handed chiral dopant having a molecular stereostructure represented by Formula (III);

20. The liquid crystal display as claimed in claim 19, further comprising an isolation film disposed between the first cholesteric liquid crystal layer and second cholesteric liquid crystal layer.