Abstract: Method, system and device for a transflective liquid crystal display with both transmissive and reflective functions is realized by using a transflective component into a transmissive LCD. The transflective component can be a transparent substrate with patterned reflectors on one surface and repetitive patterned lenses or prisms formed on the opposite surface facing the backlight unit. The transparent areas substantially allow the optical beams to pass through. The light from the backlight is refracted or focused by the optical structures onto the transparent areas or apertures of other surface, thus a substantial amount of backlight transmits to the LC for light modulation for different gray levels. For the incident ambient light incident on the transflective component, the majority is reflected back to the viewer by the reflectors on the transflective component, and the remainder transmits the transflective component to the backlight unit and be recycled to be used again.

Abstract: A panel fabricating method is provided. A first substrate having at least two first units arranged along a first direction is provided, wherein each first unit has a first display region and a terminal region sequentially arranged along the first direction. A second substrate having at least two second units arranged along the first direction is provided, wherein each second unit has a second display region and a removal region sequentially arranged along the first direction. The first substrate and the second substrate are stacked so that each first display region is opposite to each second display region and each terminal region is opposite to each removal region, so as to form a plurality of panels. The second substrate is cut in a discontinuous manner along the first direction to form at least one first discontinuous cut portion, wherein the first discontinuous cut portion is partially overlapped with the removal region.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a liquid crystal display with embedded photovoltaic cells for high energy efficiency. The LCD with photovoltaic cell comprises a first linear polarizer, a second linear polarizer, a first and second substrate, a liquid crystal cell formed between two substrates, and a backlight unit at the backplane of the display. Further, the display device has many repetitive pixels in the LC cell, each pixel region comprises a transmissive region that can pass the light from the backlight, and another region that is backlight blocking. A photovoltaic cell is formed on the bottom substrate to substantially cover the backlight blocking region. In one embodiment, the LCD is a transflective display, and in another embodiment, the LCD is a pure transmissive display that relies on backlight for displaying images.