Abstract: Disclosed is a vertically aligned liquid crystal display (VA-LCD) having wider viewing angle and having high contrast at the right angle and tilt angles. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the VA-LCD having liquid crystal cells in which liquid crystals with a negative dielectric anisotropy are filled and which is provided between a first polarizer and a second polarizer, whose absorption axises are perpendicular to each other, includes a sheet of +A plate and a sheet of ?C plate, disposed between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal cells; and a sheet of +A plate disposed between the second polarizer and the liquid crystal cells, wherein an optical axis of the +A plate near the first polarizer is perpendicular to the absorption axis of the first polarizer, and an optical axis of the +A plate near the second polarizer is perpendicular to the absorption axis of the second polarizer.

Abstract: Provided are a vertically aligned liquid crystal display (VA-LCD) with good viewing angle characteristics, which has liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy (??<0). In the VA-LCD, a polynorbornene based polymer film is used as a protection film and/or as a negative C-plate retardation film for an upper polarization plate and/or a lower polarization plate. Therefore, high contrast characteristics for a front view and an oblique angle view are realized and color change for an oblique angle view can be minimized.

Abstract: An achromatic quarter wave film (AQWF) comprising at least one quarter wave film (QWF) and at least one half wave film (HWF), each of said QWF and HWF comprising polymerized or vitrified anisotropic material, to methods and materials for the preparation of the AQWF, its use in optical devices like compensators and liquid crystal displays, and to a liquid crystal display comprising such an AQWF.