Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device which includes pixel electrodes and common electrodes which are alternatively arranged in each pixel defined on a substrate, including the steps of: forming a conductive film on the substrate; forming a mask layer, of which etching selection ratio is different from the conductive layer, on the conductive layer; forming a photo-resist pattern of a fixed pattern on the mask layer; forming a mask pattern, which has an undercut shape to the photo-resist pattern, by etching the mask layer by use of the photo-resist pattern as an etching mask; removing the photo-resist pattern; and etching the conductive film by use of the mask pattern as an etching mask, to provide at least any one of the common electrode and the pixel electrode.
Abstract:
SiGe quantum wells where the well material has a lowest conduction band energy minimum at k=0 (the Γ point of the first Brillouin zone) are provided. Quantum well structures that satisfy this condition have “Kane-like” bands at and near k=0 which can provide physical effects useful for various device applications, especially optical modulators. In the Si1-xGex material system, this condition on the band structure is satisfied for x greater than about 0.7. The quantum well barrier composition may or may not have Kane-like bands. Optical modulators including such SiGe quantum wells can be operated at temperatures other than room temperature. Such temperature control is preferred for providing optical modulators that operate in the telecommunication C band (˜1530 nm to ˜1565 nm).
Abstract:
The present invention provides an optical switch, an optical modulator, and a wavelength variable filter each of which has a simple configuration, which requires only a low driving voltage, which is independent of polarization, and which can operate at high speed. An optical switch according to the present invention includes a 3-dB coupler (16) placed on an input, a 3-dB coupler (17) placed on an output, and two optical waveguides connecting the input-side 3-dB coupler and the output-side 3-dB coupler together. The optical switch also includes a phase modulating section (18) that applies electric fields to one or both of the two optical waveguides. At least two optical waveguides are a crystal material including KTaxNb1-xO3 (0
Abstract:
A passive matrix in-plane switching bi-stable display (1) has first and second electrodes (20, 30), and pixels (10) associated with intersections of the first electrodes (20) and the second electrodes (30). The display (1) comprises on a same substrate both the first electrodes (20) and, per pixel (10), a first group of electrodes (G1) interleaving with a second group of electrodes (G2). The electrodes of the first and second group (G1, G2) extend in a same first direction, and are displaced with respect to each other in the first direction to obtain in the first direction a first area (A1) where only electrodes of said first group (G1) are present, a second area (A2) where only electrodes of said second group (G2) are present, and a third area (A3) in-between the first and the second area (A1, A2) where both electrodes of said first and second group (G1, G2) are present. Insulating areas (40) are present at least at crossing positions where the second electrodes (30) have to cross the first electrodes (20). The second electrodes (30) extend in a second direction and are positioned for crossing the first electrodes (20) at the crossing positions and for contacting the second group of electrodes (G2) in the second area (A2). Sub-electrodes (S1) per pixel (10) are arranged in the second direction to interconnect the first group of electrodes (G1) in the first area and to connect said first group (G1) to an associated one of the first electrodes (20).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an electronic device, based on discotic liquid crystalline material, to methods of production of such a device, and to uses thereof.
Abstract:
An exemplary liquid crystal display (LCD) (200) includes a first substrate (210); a second substrate (230) opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer (250) sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first common electrode (211), a first insulating layer (212), and pixel electrodes provided at an inner surface of the first substrate in that order; and second common electrodes (231) and floating electrodes (233) provided at the second substrate. The first common electrode and the pixel electrodes, and the second common electrodes and the floating electrodes, respectively produce two electric fields in the liquid crystal layer corresponding to each other. A combined electric field strength is uniformly distributed in the liquid crystal layer, so that all the liquid crystal molecules can be sufficiently twisted. Thus a viewing angle, a degree of chroma, and a transmission ratio of the LCD are improved.
Abstract:
To provide a transflective liquid crystal display apparatus that employs in-plane switching mode (in-plane switching system), which exhibits a reflection property of wide view angles. Provided is a transflective liquid crystal display apparatus which comprises: a reflective area and a transmissive area; an uneven reflective plate provided in the reflective area; a flattening film laminated on the uneven reflective plate; and common electrodes and pixel electrodes arranged on the flattening film, wherein, the uneven reflective plate comprises a diffusive reflecting function that is capable of diffusely reflecting light making incident at an incident angle of 30 degrees towards directions at exit angles of 0-10 degrees, and a surface of the flattening film is set to be substantially flat.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal layer held between an array substrate and an opposing substrate that are placed opposed to each other and a reflector and a transparent regions in one pixel. The array substrate includes a reflective common electrode provided in the reflector region, a reflective common electrode provided in the reflector region for generating an oblique electric field between the reflective pixel electrode, a transparent common electrode provided in the transparent region and a transparent pixel electrode provided in the transparent region for generating a horizontal electric field between the transparent common electrode.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display system and cell configuration is disclosed. The element has a first substrate, having a first substrate electrode and a second substrate having a second substrate electrode approximately parallel to the first substrate. In between the two substrates is sandwiched a cholesteric liquid crystalline material. The pitch of the cholesteric material can be controlled by at least two interdigitized electrodes, electrically separated from each other, arranged on the second substrate.
Abstract:
In a liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal layer is provided between a principal substrate and an opposing substrate that are disposed so as to face each other, and a shared electrode and a pixel electrode, which is a parallel electrode pair formed in the shape of a comb, are formed on the surface of the principal substrate that faces the opposing substrate. Orientation films are also formed on the opposing surfaces of the principal substrate and the opposing substrate. The electrodes of the parallel electrode pair are formed so that the width thereof is smaller than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer. The orientation of the liquid crystal molecules between the electrodes is thereby changed by an electric field generated by the parallel electrode pair, and the orientation of liquid crystal molecules disposed above the electrodes is changed in the same direction as in the liquid crystal molecules between the electrodes in accordance with the change in orientation of the liquid crystal molecules between the electrodes. A high degree of transmittance can thereby be achieved by a simple electrode structure in an in-plane switching liquid crystal display device.