Transflective Liquid Crystal Display with a Single Cell Gap in a Patterned Vertically Aligned Mode

Abstract

In this work, the optical path difference in a single cell gap simply compensated by designing pixel electrode structured with the same polarizers and retardation films over the whole panel area because, in the presence of applied voltage, the optic axes of the LC layer are generated differently in a azimuthal direction depending on the patterned electrode structures in two parts. Our structure of the transflective LCD showed that the simulated and measured electro-optic characteristics in transmissive and reflective parts are well matched each other over the whole gray scale range.