Abstract: A method for fabrication of a nano-scale mold to create a high precision alignment layer for liquid crystals is described. The method comprises forming a nano-scale mold with a negative of a liquid crystal alignment pattern and imprinting a resist material on the mold. The method further comprises performing a set operation on the resist material to cause the resist material to set, the resist material forming a liquid crystal alignment layer. The nano-scale mold is separated from the liquid crystal alignment layer. The method further comprises performing an infiltration operation to cause the liquid crystals to be deposited on the alignment layer, the alignment layer causing the liquid crystals to form the liquid crystal alignment pattern.

Abstract: Provided is a reflective liquid crystal display device of an embodiment, including a plurality of pixel areas having a blue pixel area and a white pixel area adjacent to each other in a first direction, wherein the blue pixel area includes a first blue pixel part including a first pixel electrode and a first blue filter that overlaps the first pixel electrode, and a second blue pixel part including a second blue filter that does not overlap the first pixel electrode, wherein the white pixel area includes a first sub-white pixel part including a second pixel electrode and a third blue filter that overlaps the second pixel electrode, a second sub-white pixel part disposed between the second blue pixel part and the first sub-white pixel part and including the third blue filter, and a first white pixel part adjacent to the first sub-white pixel part and including the second pixel electrode and a first white filter that overlaps the second pixel electrode, which may improve the color sense for white light.

Abstract: A transparent display device is provided. The transparent display device includes a transparent display panel and a layer being disposed on any display surface of the transparent display panel and having both of the transmission function and the reflection function. The layer covers the display surface of the entire transparent display panel.

Abstract: An image display device is provided which is free from display defects caused by the deformation of an image display part and can display high brightness and high contrast images. The image display device includes an image display part 2, a light-transmitting protective part 3 arranged on the image display part, and a cured resin layer 5 interposed between the image display part 2 and the protective part 3. The cured resin layer 5 has a light transmittance in the visible region of 90% or more and a refractive index (nD) of 1.45 or more and 1.55 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a laminate including a first polarizer, a first patterned optical anisotropic layer, a second patterned optical anisotropic layer, and a second polarizer in this order and an optically anisotropic layer disposed between the second polarizer and the second patterned optical anisotropic layer, in which an angle formed between an absorption axis of the first polarizer and an absorption axis of the second polarizer is 90°±5°; each of the first patterned optical anisotropic layer and the second patterned optical anisotropic layer has a plurality of phase difference regions having different slow axis directions in a plane of the first patterned optical anisotropic layer or the second patterned optical anisotropic layer; a white display state and a black display state are switched with each other; none of the slow axis directions of first phase difference regions and the slow axis directions of second phase difference regions are parallel or orthogonal to the absorption axes and transmission axes of the

Abstract: An electrically tunable focusing achromatic lens includes a first liquid crystal cell, a second liquid crystal cell, and first and second electrode layer units which have two predetermined patterns for permitting two predetermined radially varying electric fields to be generated to across the first and second liquid crystal cells, respectively, to thereby allow one of the first and second liquid crystal cells to acquire a predetermined positive optical power and the other one of the first and second liquid crystal cells to acquire a predetermined negative optical power. When an incident light passes through the first and second liquid crystal cells, chromatic aberration of the first liquid crystal cell can be counterbalanced by that of the second liquid crystal cell.

Abstract: Exemplary thin-film optical devices have first and second layer groups disposed as a layer stack on a substrate. The first layer group comprises a first PPN layer, a first LCP layer, and a first barrier layer all superposed. The second layer group is superposed relative to the first layer group, and includes a second PPN layer, a second LCP layer, and a second barrier layer all superposed. The first and second layer groups cooperate to polarize multiple wavelengths of an incident light flux in a broadband and/or wide-angle manner Each of the layer groups has an alignment layer, a respective liquid-crystal polymer layer, and a barrier layer.

Abstract: An LCD device includes self-compensated ITO patterns. Each pixel area of the LCD device comprises at least two sub-pixel areas and each sub-pixel area is formed with an electrode pattern different from other sub-pixel areas. The at least two sub-pixel areas each have at least two solid electrodes. The two solid electrodes in one sub-pixel area are corresponding to the two solid electrodes in the other sub-pixel area and designed with complimentary dimensions. If the solid electrode in one sub-pixel area has at least one larger size in a longitudinal direction than in a lateral direction, the corresponding solid electrode in the other sub-pixel area has at least one smaller size in the longitudinal direction than in the lateral direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is an LCD device which realizes decreased thickness, simplified process, and decreased cost by using a common electrode for formation of electric field to drive liquid crystal as a sensing electrode, and removing a touch screen from an upper surface of the liquid crystal panel, the LCD device comprising gate and data lines crossing each other to define plural pixels on a lower substrate; a pixel electrode in each of the plural pixels; plural common electrode blocks patterned at the different layer from the pixel electrode, wherein the common electrode blocks, together with the pixel electrode, forms an electric field, and senses a user's touch; and plural sensing lines electrically connected with the common electrode blocks, wherein, if the sensing line is electrically connected with one of the common electrode blocks, the sensing line is insulated from the remaining common electrode blocks.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal device according to the invention includes forming an inorganic alignment film on a side of an element substrate that faces the liquid crystal layer and on a side of a counter substrate that faces the liquid crystal layer, forming an hydrophobic film that covers the inorganic alignment film, and removing at least a portion of the hydrophobic film that is formed outside a pixel region of the element substrate and the counter substrate when viewed in plan view.

Abstract: An optical device and a use thereof are provided. The optical device is a member in which transmittance can vary depending on whether or not an external action is present, and has excellent durability.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a sensor includes: a first substrate; detection electrodes arrayed in a matrix in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction above the first substrate; sensor wires coupled to one of the detection electrodes; pixels each including sub-pixels and arrayed in a matrix in the first and second directions; scanning lines scanning switching elements of the sub-pixels and extending in the first direction; and signal lines coupled to the switching elements and extending in the second direction. One of the sensor wires overlaps one of the signal lines. The sensor wires each have, at a part thereof, a coupling part coupled to the corresponding detection electrode. The pixels include a first pixel with the coupling part and a second pixel without the coupling part. The first and second pixels are alternately disposed in the first and second directions.

Abstract: Provided herewith is a display device comprising: a first display unit having an alignment mark; and a bottom plate disposed under the first display unit and comprising an alignment hole corresponding to the alignment mark, wherein the bottom plate comprises: a base portion having a first area and a second area surrounding the first area, the alignment hole being located in the second area; a side wall portion along a periphery of the base portion; and a protruding portion protruding from the base portion to surround the alignment hole. Accordingly, in the liquid crystal display device having a narrow bezel, the protruding portion made of a rigid material surrounds the alignment hole formed in the bottom plate, such that alignment holes can be formed uniformly. As a result, it is possible to suppress misalignment from possibly occurring during the process of bonding the liquid crystal display panel with the bottom plate.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a counter substrate, a display panel, a display device, and fabricating method, further simplifying the fabricating process of the display panel by reducing the number of masking times required during the making of a spacer pattern and a frame light shielding pattern while achieving the frame light shielding function of the counter substrate and getting the counter substrate conductive with an array substrate. The fabricating method of the counter substrate comprises: forming a transparent electrode layer on a first base substrate; forming a black spacer pattern and a frame light shielding pattern at the same time on the transparent electrode layer, wherein the frame light shielding pattern comprises a first via hole that exposes a portion of the transparent electrode layer; and forming a conductive light shielding layer pattern in the first via hole.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a flat display panel; a light deflector, the light deflector being located in a light emergent direction of the display panel, the light deflector being configured to converge light emitted from the display panel in a direction toward a center plane, the center plane being perpendicular to the display panel, and a vertical center line of the display panel being located in the center plane.

Abstract: Provided are a display screen, a display screen assembly, and a terminal. The display screen includes a display panel and an optical film. The display panel includes a display surface and a side surface. The display surface is configured to display an image. The display surface includes a non-display region and a display region. The non-display region surrounds the display region. The side surface surrounds the periphery of the display surface. The optical film includes a lightproof portion and a light-transmitting portion. The light-transmitting portion is stacked on the display region, and correspondingly covers the display region. The lightproof portion is fixedly connected to the light-transmitting portion. The lightproof portion is stacked on the side surface and the non-display region, and correspondingly covers the side surface and the non-display region.

Abstract: There are provided a display panel with a touch detector that allows the touch detection electrodes to be less visible, a touch panel, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detector. The display panel with a touch detector includes: a display layer including a plurality of display elements arranged side by side; and an electrode layer alternately segmented into first regions and second regions along a first direction, the electrode layer including a plurality of first slits arranged side by side to extend in a second direction, and a plurality of second slits each allowing an adjacent pair of the plurality of first slits in the second regions to be in communication with one another.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides a liquid crystal display panel, a display device, and a driving method for the same. The liquid crystal display panel includes an array of pixel units, wherein each pixel unit includes a plurality of sub-pixel units. The liquid crystal display panel further includes: a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a pixel electrode layer, a common electrode layer, and a waveguide grating which are stacked over each other.

Abstract: A display device including a pixel section provided between a pair of substrates and including plural pixels; one or plural active components disposed in a frame region around the pixel section on one substrate of the pair of substrates; an insulating film provided in the frame region on the one substrate to cover the one or plural active components; and a sealing layer provided to seal the pixel section and cover an end edge portion of the insulating film in the frame region.

Abstract: A reflective display and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The reflective display includes: a first substrate and a second substrate, a first electrode provided on the first substrate a transparent dielectric layer provided on a side of the first substrate, which side faces the second substrate, a second electrode provided on the second substrate, and liquid crystal located between the first substrate and the second substrate; a refractive index of the liquid crystal changes under action of an electric field formed by the first electrode and the second electrode so that the refractive index of the liquid crystal is the same as or substantially the same as a refractive index of the transparent dielectric layer, or less than the refractive index of the transparent dielectric layer.