Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel having a display area and a non-display area; left and right common voltage lines connected to common voltage lines formed in the display area and located in the non-display area on the left and right sides of the display area; and a common voltage compensator that receives feedback common voltages from the left and right common voltage lines and outputs compensated common voltages based on the feedback common voltages, wherein the common voltage compensator divides the display area into a first display area and a second display area with respect to the center of the liquid crystal panel and performs different compensation to the first display area and the second display area.

Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal element with a high contrast ratio capable of achieving both optical control that utilizes a memory property and optical control capable of supporting moving image displays. The two substrates are disposed with an angle formed by the respective orientation processing directions from 0° to less than 40°. The liquid crystal layer includes chiral material capable of generating a second orientation state that includes a twist different from that of the first orientation state in the liquid crystal molecules of the layer. The liquid crystal layer transitions from the second orientation state to the first orientation state and vice versa by the application of an electric field, and returns to the second orientation state when an electric field is applied in the second orientation state, thereby generating an orientation change in accordance with the size of the electric field, and the electric field is subsequently released.

Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with a display. The display may be a liquid crystal display having a thin-film transistor layer and a color filter layer. The thin-film transistor layer may have diagonally opposed recesses in its edges that form diagonally opposed display driver ledges that protrude outwardly from under the color filter layer. Display driver circuitry may be mounted on the display driver ledges. Gate driver circuitry may be formed on the thin-film transistor layer. Recesses may be formed along the left and right edges of the display to form left and right display driver ledges to support the gate driver circuitry. A single display drive integrated circuit or multiple display driver integrated circuits may be mounted on each display driver ledge. The recesses may accommodate components in the electronic device such as a camera and audio jack or other components.

Abstract: An electrically-controlled liquid crystal glazing unit can include a substrate carrying a liquid crystal element disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode connected to an electrical power supply. The liquid crystal element can transform from a diffusing state at zero voltage to a transparent and/or colored state at a sinusoidal AC voltage having an operating amplitude (V0). In some examples, the electrical power supply is configured to apply a start-up voltage whose amplitude progressively increases from zero up to the operating amplitude (V0) and/or a shut-down voltage (Vs(t)) whose amplitude decreases progressively from the operating amplitude (V0) down to zero.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a pair of substrates at least one of which is transparent; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates; an electrode group formed on at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, for applying an electric field to the liquid crystal layer; a plurality of active elements connected to the electrode group; and a liquid crystal alignment film disposed on at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, in which the liquid crystal alignment film, which is formed by a photo-alignment process, contains polyimide formed using tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and/or diamine each having a specific chemical structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display device and a display control method of the display device, so as to improve transmittance of the light emitted from the display device itself in an indoor environment. A display device provided by the present invention includes a display panel and a quarter-wave layer disposed at a light outgoing side of the display panel, the display device further includes: a liquid crystal structure disposed at a side of the quarter-wave layer away from the display panel, the liquid crystal structure presenting a polarization state or a transparent state under different ambient light intensity conditions.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device in which a source line is divided in a screen and the screen is driven in a horizontally divided state. A divided position (40) between a source line (30u) in an upper display region and a source line (30d) in a lower display region is arranged at an intersecting part between a source line (30) and a gate line (32). A part of the source line (30), which overlaps with a gate line (32a) on which the divided position 40 is present, has a planar shape additionally including an expanded part (46) (protruding portion) having the same area as a removed part of the source line (30) at the divided position (40), as compared to a part of the source line (30), which overlaps with a gate line (32b) on which the divided position (40) is absent.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device of a lateral electric field mode including a first substrate (50) and a second substrate (60) having a liquid crystal layer (70) therebetween, a first electrode (18) and a second electrode (16) located in the first substrate, and an alignment film (28) provided to be in contact with the liquid crystal layer; the alignment film (28) includes a first alignment region that aligns liquid crystal molecules in a first domain (P1) in a first alignment axis azimuth (D1), a second alignment region that aligns liquid crystal molecules in a second domain (P2) in a second alignment axis azimuth (D2), a third alignment region that aligns liquid crystal molecules in a third domain (P3) in the first alignment axis azimuth (D1), and a fourth alignment region that aligns liquid crystal molecules in a fourth domain (P4) in the second alignment axis azimuth (D2).

Abstract: A display panel includes an upper plate including a first substrate, a first electrode layer formed on an inner surface of the first substrate, and an absorptive polarizing film formed on an outer surface of the first substrate and having a first polarization axis, a lower plate including a second substrate, a second electrode layer formed on an inner surface of the second substrate, and a reflective polarizing film formed on an outer surface of the second substrate and having a second polarization axis perpendicular or parallel to the first polarization axis, an LC layer filled between the upper plate and the lower plate, and an LC driving power supply connected between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and configured to selectively provide an LC driving voltage to the LC layer changing a polarization direction of incident light in the LC layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a display substrate which includes a plurality of pixel areas and is curved in a first direction, an opposite substrate which faces the display substrate, is coupled to the display substrate, and is curved along the display substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the display substrate and the opposite substrate, where a plurality of domains are defined in each of the plurality of pixel areas, directions in which liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are aligned are different from each other in at least two domains among the plurality of domains, and the plurality of domains is arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction.

Abstract: A switchable viewing angle display method is provided. The method provides a front panel array of display pixels. Also provided is an array of microlenses underlying the array of display pixels. Each microlens has a focal point and each microlens is associated with a corresponding block of display pixels. A backlight panel has an edge-coupled waveguide pipe with an optical input connected to a column of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The backlight panel includes a top array of selectively enabled extraction pixels, a planar mirror underlying the waveguide pipe, and a bottom array of selectively enabled extraction pixels interposed between the waveguide pipe and the planar mirror. In response to accepting a display viewing angle change command, an extraction pixel is enabled from either the top array or the bottom array, and a waveguide pipe light extraction position is formed, changing the viewing angle.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display of the present invention includes a pixel electrode including: a first subpixel electrode, a second subpixel electrode, and a third subpixel electrode electrically separated from each other; a first thin film transistor connected to the first subpixel electrode; a second thin film transistor connected to the second subpixel electrode; a third thin film transistor connected to the third subpixel electrode; a fourth thin film transistor connected to the second subpixel electrode and the third subpixel electrode; a first gate line connected to the first to third thin film transistors; a second gate line connected to the fourth thin film transistor; a data line connected to the first and second thin film transistors; and a storage electrode line connected to the third thin film transistor.

Abstract: A display device may include a display portion to maintain a display state in accordance with a voltage applied thereto; and a plurality of light transmission regions adjacent to the display portion at positions corresponding to a plurality of light sources arranged over the display portion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a gate line, data lines transmitting a first voltage; a transmitting line transmitting a second voltage; and pixels including first and second pixel electrodes. One pixel electrode receives the first voltage through a data line, and the other receives the second voltage through the transmitting line. Branch electrodes of the pixel electrodes alternate, and a stem of the first pixel electrode of a first pixel, faces a stem of the first pixel electrode of a second pixel and a stem of the second pixel electrode of the second pixel, with respect to the data line. Areas of the stem of the first pixel electrode of the second pixel facing the stem of the first pixel electrode of the first pixel, and of the stem of the second pixel electrode of the second pixel facing the stem of the first pixel, are the same.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a data driver, a gate driver, and a signal controller. The display panel includes a pixel connected to the gate and data lines, and the pixel includes a liquid crystal capacitor. The signal controller obtains compensation data and normal data based on input data for a still image. The signal controller apples the compensation data and normal data to the pixel during different periods of a frame. The compensation data has a value that reduces a difference of operation characteristics of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal capacitor when a data voltage for the display panel changes between different polarities.

Abstract: There is provided a phase difference film which includes a substrate, an acrylic resin layer, an intermediate layer containing a main component of the substrate and a main component of the acrylic resin layer between the substrate and the acrylic resin layer, and a specific phase difference layer directly on a surface on the opposite side to the intermediate layer of the acrylic resin layer, in which the substrate contains at least one kind of resin selected from a cellulose acylate resin, a cyclic olefin resin, a polycarbonate resin, an acrylic resin, and a styrene resin, the acrylic resin layer contains an acrylic resin having a polar group, the intermediate layer has a thickness of 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m, and the phase difference layer is formed by polymerizing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound containing a vertical alignment agent.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) according to an embodiment of the present invention operates in a lateral electric field mode, and includes: first and second substrates (50, 60) disposed with a liquid crystal layer (70) interposed therebetween; a first electrode (16) and a second electrode (18) on the first substrate; and a first alignment film (28). The first alignment film includes a first alignment region (A1) in which liquid crystal molecules are to be aligned in a first alignment azimuth and a second alignment region (A2) in which liquid crystal molecules are to be aligned in a substantially orthogonal second alignment azimuth. When a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, liquid crystal molecules in the first alignment region and liquid crystal molecules in the second alignment region rotate in an identical direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels, a lower substrate and an upper substrate facing each other, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the lower substrate and including a plurality of sub-regions which differently controls an inclination direction of liquid crystal molecules included in the liquid crystal layer for a pixel of the plurality of pixels, and a gate line disposed on the lower substrate and including a portion which overlaps a boundary between adjacent sub-regions of the plurality of sub-regions of the pixel electrode.

Abstract: An array substrate and method for an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device are provided. The array substrate according to an embodiment includes a pixel electrode in a pixel region; a common electrode in the pixel region, the common electrode being parallel to the pixel electrode; a first electrode in the pixel region and crossing the pixel and common electrodes; and a second electrode in the pixel region, the second electrode being parallel to the first electrode.

Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate, a first transparent electrode disposed on the first substrate, and to which a first voltage is applied in a display mode which an image is displayed, a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer disposed on the first transparent electrode having photosensitive polymer molecules and liquid crystal molecules, and a second transparent electrode disposed on the polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer and to which a second voltage is applied in the display mode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal lens device includes an optical unit, a driver, and an estimator. The optical unit includes first electrodes provided on the first surface, each first electrode extending in a first direction, a second electrode and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second electrodes. A long-axis direction of a liquid crystal molecule forms an alignment direction when projected onto the first surface. The estimator estimates first and second estimated positions of a user relative to the optical unit. The driver selectively applies a voltage to the liquid crystal layer. An angle between the long-axis direction and a straight line connecting the first position and a centroid of the first surface is smaller than an angle between the long-axis direction and a second straight line connecting the second position and the centroid.

Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) lens device and a method for driving the LC lens device are provided. The LC lens device includes an LC lens array and a driving device, and the LC lens array includes LC lenses in parallel. Each LC lens includes a first substrate, first electrodes disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate, second electrodes on the second substrate, and an LC layer disposed between the first electrodes and the second electrodes to form a Fresnel lens. The driving device is electrically connected to the second electrodes of each LC lens, and provides driving voltages respectively to each of the second electrodes in an order starting from the second electrodes disposed at the edges of the Fresnel lens and ending at the second electrode disposed at the middle of a main lobe region of the Fresnel lens, and there is a preset time difference between driven starting times of every adjacent two second electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a display medium including a pair of substrates; pixel electrodes disposed on one of the pair of substrates; a common electrode disposed on the other substrate of the pair of substrates; and a display layer, the common electrode includes two or more common electrode layers containing a first common electrode layer and a second common electrode layer which being disposed across a gap in a thickness direction, and electrical voltages thereof being controlled independently of each other, the first common electrode layer containing at least one electrode unit and at least one non-electrode area corresponding to a disposition of the pixel electrodes, and the second common electrode layer containing at least one second electrode unit, the at least one second electrode layer completely overlapping with at least the at least one non-electrode area of the first common electrode layer in a thickness direction.

Abstract: A switchable viewing angle display method is provided, using arrayed microlenses and a waveguide pipe with selectable light extraction positions. The method provides a front panel array of display pixels. Also provided is an array of microlenses underlying the array of display pixels. Each microlens has a focal point and each microlens is associated with a corresponding block of display pixels. A backlight panel has an edge-coupled waveguide pipe with an optical input connected to a column of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The backlight panel includes an array extraction pixels, each extraction pixel underlying a corresponding microlens, and the backlight panel also includes a planar mirror underlying the waveguide pipe. In response to a display viewing angle change command, a waveguide pipe's light extraction position is selected, which is the distance between the extraction pixels and their corresponding microlenses, and the display viewing angle is changed.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal molecules are oriented in a vertical direction to the first substrate and the second substrate by the first molecule orientation film and the second molecule orientation film, respectively, in a non-driving state. A structural pattern is formed so as to extend in a first direction parallel a surface of the liquid crystal layer and so as to form, in a driving state, an electric field periodically changing in a second direction that is parallel to the liquid crystal layer and vertical to the first direction. The liquid crystal molecules substantially tilt in the first direction in the driving state.

Abstract: A polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer applied to the display screen for an electronic device is described herein. The polymer dispersed liquid crystal applied to the display screen is operable to switch between a transparent state and a translucent and/or opaque state. In the transparent state the display screen is viewable as usual. In the translucent and/or opaque state the liquid crystal prevents incident solar radiation from heating up the internal components of the device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrowetting display device and a manufacturing method for the same, using a UV light reactive fluorosurfactant layer. The UV light reactive fluorosurfactant layer can include a UV-cured fluorine based material positioned above a cured UV reactive material. In an embodiment, the electrowetting display device can also include a substrate with a layer of pixel electrodes formed over the substrate, and partition walls formed over at least a portion of the layer of pixel electrodes. In one embodiment, the UV light reactive fluorosurfactant layer can be formed between the partition walls and above an inter-layer insulation film. In another embodiment, the UV light reactive fluorosurfactant layer can be formed between the partition walls and above the layer of pixel electrodes. The electrowetting display can also include a water repellent layer formed over the UV light reactive fluorosurfactant layer.

Abstract: A flexible display panel including a buffer layer, an active element, a pad, a display device and a signal transmission circuit is provided. The active element is located on the buffer layer. The pad is located in the buffer layer and is electrically connected to the active element. The display device is located on the active element and is electrically connected to the active element, in which the display device includes a pixel electrode, an opposite electrode and a display medium layer located therebetween. The active element and the signal transmission circuit are respectively located at a first surface and a second surface of the buffer layer, the second surface is opposite to the first surface, and the signal transmission circuit is electrically connected to the active element via the pad. A manufacturing method of a flexible display panel is also provided.

Abstract: A method of driving a bi-stable chiral splay nematic mode liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, first and second reset electrodes on one of inner surfaces of the first and second substrates, a pixel electrode on the inner surface of the first substrate and a common electrode on the inner surface of the second substrate includes: applying a data voltage and a common voltage to the pixel electrode and the common electrode, respectively, such that a vertical electric field is generated and the liquid crystal layer transitions from a splay state to a ?-twist state during a writing period; and floating the pixel electrode and the common electrode such that the liquid crystal layer keeps the ?-twist state and displays a present image during a memory period.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a transparent electrode formed in a plan form and a strip or strips transparent electrode disposed thereon via an insulating film, and controls display by rotating the liquid crystal aligned substantially in parallel to a substrate within a plane that is substantially in parallel to the substrate by an electric field between the both electrodes. Each pixel constituting the display is divided into two regions, the extending directions of the strip electrode in each of the regions are orthogonal, the alignment azimuths of the liquid crystal of each of the regions are orthogonal, and the angles formed between the extending directions of the strip electrode and the alignment azimuth of the liquid crystal are the same.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device has a first electrode, a second electrode and liquid crystal layer. When a voltage is not applied to the first and second electrodes, the major axes of the liquid crystal molecules are oriented in a third direction. When a voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes, the major axes are oriented so as to rise in a direction perpendicular to a first substrate while rotating clockwise in a vicinity of one of long sides of comb tooth portion that face each other and counterclockwise in a vicinity of the other of the long sides. An angle between an electrode base-side portion of a long side of each comb tooth portions and the third direction is larger than an angle between a distal end-side portion of the long side of each comb tooth portions and the third direction.

Abstract: A microcontroller for controlling a liquid crystal display (LCD) is mountable in any one of multiple package types. The microcontroller includes a LCD controller to generate logical mapping signals indicative of voltages to be applied to segment terminals of a LCD glass. A driver circuit drives the segment terminals selectively. A remapping unit receives the logical mapping signals from the LCD controller and maps the logical mapping signals, for each of the package types, to physical segment terminal drivers in the driver circuit based on a distribution of I/O terminals that are bonded for each package type when that package type is used with the LCD glass.

Abstract: In a driver for a smectic-A composition liquid crystal panel, the driver forms a resonant circuit operable to oscillate at resonant frequency for ordering the smectic-A liquid crystal composition of the panel.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a substrate where a plurality of pixels are formed, a first pixel defining layer on the substrate, the first pixel defining layer dividing the plurality of pixels, a connection wire on the first pixel defining layer, the connection wire electrically connecting two adjacent pixels, and a second pixel defining layer on the first pixel defining layer, the second pixel defining layer covering the connection wire.

Abstract: An electrophoretic device includes: in an insulating liquid, a plurality of electrophoretic particles; and a porous layer formed of a fibrous structure, the fibrous structure including a plurality of non-migrating particles. The fibrous structure is configured of superposed fibers extending in an identical direction or different directions, and includes a cross-linking section in which the fibers are linked to each other in part or all of contact points between the fibers.

Abstract: This liquid crystal display device allows outputs from RS-FF circuits (401 to 409) and switch circuits (411 to 419), which function as a shift register, to be provided as scanning signals that are selectively activated during odd and even scanning line selection periods, by simply changing the potential of an enable signal (EN) (i.e., by simply providing an EN signal line), which achieves interlacing drive that allows a reduction in the number of polarity inversions, thereby making it possible to reduce power consumption and a wiring area for control lines and achieve simple control which allows circuit simplification, resulting in a reduced frame area and a display panel which is compact as a whole.

Abstract: A liquid crystal optical element having a crystal liquid optical element adapted to positively function as a diffraction element and an optical pickup apparatus including the liquid crystal optical element are disclosed. A transparent electrode having a diffraction pattern is arranged on one of a pair of transparent substrates. A liquid crystal panel has a transparent opposed electrode arranged on the other one of the pair of the transparent substrates. A driving unit generates a phase difference distribution in the liquid crystal layer by generating a potential difference between the transparent electrode and the transparent opposed electrode and causes the liquid crystal panel to function as a diffraction element for diffracting the incoming light beam transmitted therethrough. The diffraction pattern or the transparent opposed electrode is divided into a plurality of regions. The driving unit adjusts the potential difference for each of the regions.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display is discussed. The stereoscopic image display includes a display panel including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, thin film transistors (TFTs) that are turned on in response to gate pulses from the gate lines, and a plurality of pixels, a data driving circuit that converts digital video data into a data voltage and supplies the data voltage to the data lines, a gate driving circuit sequentially supplying the gate pulses synchronized with the data voltage to the gate lines, and a timing controller that receives a timing signal, 2D image data, and 3D image data from an external host system, supplies the digital video data to the data driving circuit, and controls an operation timing of the data driving circuit and an operation timing of the gate driving circuit.

Abstract: A voltage may be provided to a liquid crystal addressable element as part of a liquid crystal device. The provided voltage may be reduced from a driven state to a relaxed state in a time period greater than 1 ?s. The reduction may further be performed in less than 20 ms. The liquid crystal device may be a polarization switch, which in some embodiments may be a multi-segment polarization switch. In one embodiment, pulses of limited duration of a light source may be provided to the polarization switch. The manner of voltage reduction may reduce optical bounce of the liquid crystal device and may allow one or more of the pulses of the light source to be shifted later in time.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device, a color-filter substrate, a thin-film-transistor substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The thin-film-transistor substrate has a pixel array and transparent conductive material. The pixel array has a plurality of thin-film-transistor units, pixel electrodes and metal signal lines. The transparent conductive material is mounted on the pixel array with an insulating layer placed therebetween, and correspondingly covers an area containing the thin-film-transistor units and the metal signal lines. And voltage difference between the transparent conductive layer and a common electrode of the color-filter substrate is smaller than a threshold voltage of liquid crystal cell. Therefore, without enough voltage difference for driving, the liquid crystal material between the transparent conductive material and the common electrode can maintain at a vertical status to block lights, so as to replace the function of traditional black matrix.

Abstract: An object is to provide a display device with excellent display characteristics, where a pixel circuit and a driver circuit provided over one substrate are formed using transistors which have different structures corresponding to characteristics of the respective circuits. The driver circuit portion includes a driver circuit transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using a metal film, and a channel layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion includes a pixel transistor in which a gate electrode layer, a source electrode layer, and a drain electrode layer are formed using an oxide conductor, and a semiconductor layer is formed using an oxide semiconductor. The pixel transistor is formed using a light-transmitting material, and thus, a display device with higher aperture ratio can be manufactured.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel divided into a first area and a second area is provided. The first and second areas both include first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels. Each first sub-pixel provides a first main alignment vector; each second sub-pixel provides a second main alignment vector having a direction opposite to that of the first main alignment vector. The LCD panel has first sub-pixel units and second sub-pixel units arranged in arrays. Each first sub-pixel unit includes one first sub-pixel and one second sub-pixel sequentially arranged from top to bottom in a column direction. Each second sub-pixel unit includes one first sub-pixel and one second sub-pixel sequentially arranged from bottom to top in the column direction. In any one of the first area and the second area, multiple first sub-pixel units and multiple second sub-pixel units are arranged together in a same row.

Abstract: A blue phase liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate having a first pixel region, a first gate line on the first substrate, first and second data lines on the first substrate, a first thin film transistor (TFT) and a second TFT disposed in the first pixel region, the first TFT connected to the first gate line and the first data line, and the second TFT connected to the first gate line and the second data line, a first pixel electrode in the first pixel region and connected to the first TFT, and a second pixel electrode in the first pixel region and connected to the second TFT, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, the liquid crystal layer having an optical isotropic property without an electric field and a birefringence property with the electric field.

Abstract: A voltage generator includes a boosting circuit boosting a power voltage to generate first through fourth voltages, and a boosting controller controlling the boosting circuit. The boosting controller sets the third and fourth voltages to a voltage level lower than that of a ground voltage while the first and second voltages are generated, so that a plurality of voltages may be stably generated, i.e., without latch-up.

Abstract: The invention relates to a display device (10), in particular in the form of a multi-layer film body. The display device (10) has, in a first area (22), a first electrode (41), a second electrode (42), a third electrode (43) and a display layer (122) with a display material. The display layer (122) is arranged between the first electrode (41) and the second electrode (42). The third electrode (43) is arranged on the side of the display layer (122) facing away from the first electrode (41). The first electrode (41) is formed as an isolated electrode. The first electrode (41) overlaps both the second electrode (42) and the third electrode (43) at least in areas when viewed perpendicular to the plane spanned by the display layer (122).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a first base substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the first base substrate, a second base substrate facing the first base substrate, and an overcoat layer disposed on the second base substrate. The overcoat layer may include at least one of polysilsesquioxane, polysilazane, or derivatives thereof. The LCD further includes a common electrode disposed on the overcoat layer to form an electric field with the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first base substrate and the second base substrate.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal device, pixel electrodes and a common electrode that opposes the pixel electrodes on another side of a liquid crystal layer are formed in a display region serving as a first region, and dummy pixel electrodes serving as first electrodes are formed in a dummy pixel region serving as a second region. A driving method for the liquid crystal device applies a voltage that is lower than a threshold voltage at which the transmissibility of liquid crystals changes between the dummy pixel electrodes and the common electrode. Accordingly, the dummy pixel electrodes can function as an electricity parting portion and ionic impurities can be pulled from the display region to the dummy pixel electrodes.

Abstract: This invention provides an electro-optical module with reduced noise in driving voltage. The invention can include a power supply substrate that is arranged separately from the flexible substrate having a driver, so that the noise of the driving voltage supplied from the power supply substrate is reduced.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophoretic display (EPD) device and fabrication method thereof that has a simplified fabrication process and reduced fabrication costs. In the EPD device, a partition wall is formed directly on a first substrate having a pixel electrode and extended up a lateral surface of the partition wall to prevent dead areas in the pixel region, provide increased aperture ratio, and enhanced image quality.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition is described, which exhibits an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase and contains an achiral component T and a chiral dopant. The achiral component T contains, as its first component, at least one compound selected from compounds represented by formula (1) in an amount of 32 wt % to 85 wt %, wherein R1 is alkyl, for example; L1, L2, L3, L4, L5 and L6 are each independently hydrogen or fluorine; Z1 and Z2 are each independently a single bond or —CF2O—, with at least one of Z1 and Z2 being —CF2O—; and X1 is halogen, for example.