Abstract:
A color filter substrate has unit pixels each having an area of 0.1 mm2 or more. Each unit pixel is formed of sub-pixels having a different color from one another and having areas that are substantially equal to one another. Each sub-pixel is formed of a continuous planar region having a maximum line width that does not exceed 150 μm. The sub-pixels are configured with a shape such that the sub-pixels form a preselected engagement pattern via which the adjacent sub-pixels engage one another.
Abstract:
An embodiment of a unit pixel of an in-plane switching (IPS) mode LCD device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in the unit pixel region, wherein each pixel electrode is configured to apply a pixel voltage from the data line, and a plurality of common electrodes correspondingly arranged in the unit pixel region, wherein each common electrode is configured to apply a common voltage from a common line in parallel with the data line to form electric field in conjunction with the corresponding pixel electrodes. The unit pixel region is vertically divided into over three sub-regions, at least one pixel electrode spans all sub-regions, and a bent angle of the at least one pixel electrode in a sub-region is different from the bent angle of the at least one pixel electrode in an adjacent sub-region, wherein the bent angle is measured relative to the gate line.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can control the alignment of liquid crystal molecules more reliably and also can suppress the deterioration of the contrast characteristics and a reduction in transmittance without complicating the manufacturing process of a matrix substrate. Specifically disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates (110 and 130) and a liquid crystal layer held between the pair of substrates. One of the pair of substrates has pixel electrodes (113). The other of the pair of substrates has a first opposite electrode (132), an insulating layer (133) formed on the first opposite electrode, and a second opposite electrode (134) formed on the insulating layer. The second opposite electrode has an opening (137), and the opening overlaps at least with a pixel when the pair of substrates are observed in a plan view, and the first opposite electrode overlaps at least with part of said opening in the pixel when the pair of substrates are observed in a plan view.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device that includes: a liquid crystal display panel configured by a pair of substrates sandwiching therebetween a liquid crystal material with a positive dielectric anisotropy; and a flat-shaped common electrode and a pixel electrode disposed on one of the pair of substrates with an overlay, via an insulator layer, between the common electrode and the pixel electrode when viewed from above. In the liquid crystal display device, the pixel electrode is extended in a first direction, and includes a plurality of comb-like electrode sections aligned in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the comb-like electrode sections of the pixel electrode are varied in width in the second direction for a plurality of times at intervals shorter than a side extending in the first direction.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an electro-optical device that can achieve desired optical characteristics by eliminating the possibility of transparent electrode conduction failure. An electro-optical device includes a first and a second transparent substrate, an electro-optical material provided between first and second transparent substrates, an optical structure provided on the first or second transparent substrate and having a plurality of segmented lens faces (16a), a conducting structure (2) including a connecting face (23) formed on the optical structure and formed by cutting out a portion of the optical structure or etc., and transparent electrodes formed the plurality of segmented lens faces (16a) and the conducting structure (2), respectively, wherein the transparent electrodes formed on the plurality of segmented lens faces are electrically connected together by the transparent electrode formed on the conducting structure (2).
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display having a wide viewing angle and easily manufactured. The liquid crystal display comprises an upper substrate and a lower substrate, and a liquid crystal material disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The liquid crystal display has a conductive protrusion disposed on the surface of the upper substrate opposing to the lower substrate. The conductive protrusion is disposed over a scanning electrode line or a signal electrode line and has the same potential as that of the upper electrode. As another structure, each of pixel electrodes on the lower substrate has a smaller area than that of a common electrode on the upper substrate and is covered by the common electrode, and each of the pixel electrodes comprises an electrode portion having approximately symmetrical shape.
Abstract:
In a radio frequency (RF)-photonic arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), an optical carrier signal is phase-modulated using an arbitrary waveform optical phase generator (AWPOG), which may include, e.g., sequential optical phase modulators. The phase-modulated optical signal is combined with a version of the optical carrier signal to yield an optical waveform, whose amplitude varies with a phase shift introduced by the AWPOG to the optical carrier signal. By manipulating electrical inputs to the AWPOG which control the phase shift, the optical waveform can be arbitrary shaped. The optical waveform may then be converted to an electrical waveform having a radio frequency.
Abstract:
An electrophoretic display device is described. The device includes a substrate, first electrodes, an electrophoretic film having electrophoretic particles, and second electrodes. The substrate is has a plurality of pixel regions. First electrodes are disposed respectively on each pixel region, and include first patterns separated from one another and second patterns connected to the first patterns. The second electrode is disposed on the electrophoretic film. The area of one of the electrodes, opposing the other of the electrodes has apertures formed therein, reducing the contact area between the electrode and the electrophoretic film.
Abstract:
An electrically-driven liquid crystal lens, which can be switched between a convex lens and a concave lens by changing an optical path difference based on an electric field application, and a stereoscopic display device using the same are disclosed. The electrically-driven liquid crystal lens includes first and second substrates arranged opposite each other and each defining a plurality of lens regions, a plurality of first electrodes formed on the first substrate based on the lens region and spaced apart from one another, a second electrode formed over the entire surface of the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer filled between the first substrate and the second substrate, first and second voltage sources to apply different voltages to the plurality of first electrodes in each lens region, the first and second voltage sources providing the liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates with a convex lens optical path difference and a concave lens optical path difference, respectively, with respect to each lens region, and a selector to select any one of the first and second voltage sources so as to apply voltages to the first electrodes.
Abstract:
An in-plane switching liquid crystal display device is designed in such a way that an angle defined by the lengthwise direction of a common electrode and a pixel electrode and a rubbing direction of an alignment layer is set to 10 to 20°, a cell gap d is set to 2.7 μm or smaller, the dielectric anisotropy Δ∈ of a liquid crystal constituting a liquid crystal layer is set to 8 to 20, a white voltage Vwhite to be applied to the pixel electrode when displaying white is set to 4 to 7 V, and the white voltage Vwhite (V), the dielectric anisotropy Δ∈ of the liquid crystal, the cell gap d (μm) and an interval L (μm) between the common electrode and the pixel electrode satisfy the following expression 11.8 > V white d - 0.6 × L 0.5 × Δɛ - 0.5 > 9.8 .