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

  • Zhibing Ge
  • , Shin Tson Wu*
  • , Seung Hee Lee
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Central Florida

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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° viewing cone in the transmissive mode and over a 40° cone in the reflective mode, which is adequate for mobile displays.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2623-2625
Number of pages3
JournalOptics Letters
Volume33
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008.11.15

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Physics & Astronomy

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