Title

Wide-view and sunlight readable transflective liquid-crystal display for mobile applications

Authors

Authors

Z. B. Ge; S. T. Wu;S. H. Lee

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Abstract

A wide-view single cell gap transflective liquid-crystal display (TR-LCD) using the fringe field switching effect is proposed by incorporating a quarter-wave in-cell -retarder below the liquid-crystal (LC) cell in the reflective part. By optimizing the angle between the electrode stripes and the LC rubbing direction in the transmissive and the reflective regions, this TR-LCD exhibits a high optical efficiency and good match between the voltage-dependent transmittance and reflectance curves. Without using any phase compensation films, this TR-LCD exhibits a wide view with 10:1 contrast ratio over a 60 degrees viewing cone in the transmissive mode and over a 40 degrees cone in the reflective mode, which is adequate for mobile displays. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America

Journal Title

Optics Letters

Volume

33

Issue/Number

22

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Document Type

Article

First Page

2623

Last Page

2625

WOS Identifier

WOS:000261796800018

ISSN

0146-9592

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