A high transmittance color liquid crystal display mode with controllable color gamut and transparency

In this paper, we propose a color transparent liquid crystal (LC) mode that can control the properties of the color gamut and transparency in a single panel. To achieve high transmittance in the transparent LC mode, a reactive mesogen (RM) with embedded color dichroic dyes was applied instead of a color filter. Basically, the LC mode applied a 3-terminal electrode structure to switch between the transparent LC mode and the conventional color LC mode. Depending on the direction of the applied voltage, we can operate both the color mode and the transparent mode in a single panel, and modulate the transparency and color purity of the cell through appropriate voltage control. In the experiments, we confirmed that the transmittance and the color gamut of the cell were 39.4% and 2% in the transparent LC mode and 14.9% and 34% in the color LC mode, respectively. Modulation of the color gamut and transparency between each LC mode are also demonstrated in the paper.