A Transflective Liquid Crystal Display Using an Internal Wire Grid Polarizer

    Authors

    Z. B. Ge; X. Y. Zhu;S. T. Wu

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Disp. Technol.

    Keywords

    Liquid crystal display (LCD); transflective; wire grid polarizer (WGP); Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Physics, Applied

    Abstract

    To obtain high transmittance and reflectance simultaneously, a single cell gap transflective liquid crystal (LC) display using internal wire grid polarizer (WGP) is proposed. For the reflective mode, the imbedded WGP serves as a polarization-dependent reflector for the ambient light. For the transmissive mode, no achromatic quarter-wave film is needed. This device can be used as a normally black mode (using vertical alignment) and a normally white mode (using twist-nematic alignment), based on the initial LC cell alignment. Detailed electro-optic performance, such as voltage-dependent light efficiency and viewing angle of these two device configurations, is investigated.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Display Technology

    Volume

    2

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2006

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    102

    Last Page

    105

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000207089400001

    ISSN

    1551-319X

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