Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are widely used in flat-screen televisions, computer monitors, mobile phones and other digital devices, because LCDs have many advantages such as the low price and mass production. Among the large size of displays, wide ...
Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are widely used in flat-screen televisions, computer monitors, mobile phones and other digital devices, because LCDs have many advantages such as the low price and mass production. Among the large size of displays, wide viewing angle(WVA) characteristic is always required and issued as a critical problem in LCD. To achieve this requirement, many LC modes are studied such as in-plane switching(IPS) mode and patterned vertical alignment(PVA) mode but each mode has different drawbacks. Above all these LC modes are aimed at solving the WVA problems caused by optical anisotropy of liquid crystal molecules rather than the problems caused by effective polarizers, which is more basic and necessary.
To handle these problems, we propose a liquid/high polymer compensation film. This structure is different from the ordinary structure of the compensation film which consists of an a-plate film and a c-plate film. It consists of one panel with two layers. One layer is made of high polymer used as an a-plate part and the other layer is made of liquid crystal. It’s a new attempt that use the positive liquid crystal layer as a c-plate part by applying the voltage. Since by using this method, we can not only compensate the LC but also control the compensation by controling the voltage which is applied on the compensation film. As a result, the compensation film which is applied 5V voltage can compensate the light leakage up to 43% of the cross polarizers and up to 58% of the ECB mode when it’s on the off state. As the applied voltage increased, the compensation of the cross polarizers is better. However the compensation effect on the ECB mode is good at 5V rather than increasing applied voltage. And we expect that the Liquid/High polymer compensation structure could be used in large size LC Display to improve the wide view angle characteristics.