Abstract: A backlight device for a liquid crystal display device includes a light source providing light; a light waveguide plate 40 guiding light from the light source, having an emitting surface, a front surface and a bottom surface, the emitting surface adjacent to the light source; a reflector arranged under the bottom surface of the light wave guide plate, reflecting light; and at least one cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) film arranged over the front surface of the light wave guide plate, collimating light.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) realizes a high brightness by using cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) in a color filter and a polarizer, and improves viewing angles by using a hologram diffuser. The LCD includes a back light unit to produce and supply light, and a collimating sheet to collimate the light supplied by the back light unit. A CLC polarizer transmits left-circularly polarized light from the collimating sheet, and reflects other light. A lower substrate is disposed above the CLC polarizer, and an upper substrate is disposed above the lower substrate and includes a holographic diffuser which diffuses light without altering a polarization of the light. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and a color filter layer which transmits only predetermined wavelengths of light is also disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. An upper linear polarizer is located above the upper substrate.

Abstract: A transmissive liquid crystal display device includes first and second transparent substrates spaced apart from each other; a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter on the first substrate; a common electrode on the cholesteric liquid crystal color filter; an array of elements arranged on a first surface of the second transparent substrate facing the first transparent substrate; a hologram diffuser formed on a second surface of the second transparent substrate opposing to the first surface; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second transparent substrates; and a backlight device adjacent to the first transparent substrate.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a first transparent electrode beneath the first substrate; a light absorption layer on the second substrate; a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter layer on the light absorption layer, the CLC color filter layer being multi-layered and each layer of the CLC color filter including sub-color filters for red, green and blue colors arranged in an alternating order; a second transparent electrode on the CLC color filter layer; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second transparent electrodes. The CLC color filter layer may be single-layered and each sub-color filter may include a plurality of regions having a different central wavelength of reflection. The CLC color filter layer may be multi-layered with each sub-color filter including a plurality of regions having a different central wavelength of reflection.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) realizes a high brightness by using cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) in a color filter and a polarizer, and improves viewing angles by using a hologram diffuser. The LCD includes a back light unit to produce and supply light, and a collimating sheet to collimate the light supplied by the back light unit. A CLC polarizer transmits left-circularly polarized light from the collimating sheet, and reflects other light. A lower substrate is disposed above the CLC polarizer, and an upper substrate is disposed above the lower substrate and includes a holographic diffuser which diffuses light without altering a polarization of the light. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and a color filter layer which transmits only predetermined wavelengths of light is also disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate. An upper linear polarizer is located above the upper substrate.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates spaced apart and facing each other, a gate line and a data line on an inner surface of the first substrate and crossing each other to define a pixel area, a thin film transistor electrically connected to the gate and data lines, a passivation layer covering the thin film transistor, a blocking layer on the passivation layer and corresponding to the thin film transistor, a pixel electrode on the passivation layer and connected to the thin film transistor, a retardation film on an outer surface of the first substrate, a polarizer on the retardation film, an absorption layer on an inner surface of the second substrate, a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter layer on the absorption layer, a common electrode on the cholesteric liquid crystal color filter layer, and a liquid crystal layer between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, wherein the data line overlaps adjacent pixel electrodes and a overlapping width is over 50%

Abstract: A fabricating method of a substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes: coating a cholesteric liquid crystal material on a substrate to form a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, the substrate having a plurality of sub-pixel regions; disposing a mask having a plurality of open portions over the cholesteric liquid crystal layer; irradiating the cholesteric liquid crystal layer through the mask and curing the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, wherein each open portion is smaller than each sub-pixel region.

Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can improve light efficiency by adopting cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) as a black matrix and as a polarizer. The cholesteric liquid crystal selectively reflects or transmits the light emitted from the backlight device. Accordingly, the light from the backlight device is converted into a given direction of circularly polarized light by the cholesteric liquid crystal polarizer and enters CLC color filters. Some portion of the circularly polarized light impinges on, and is reflected by, the CLC back matrix and reflected again and again by a reflective plate of the backlight device and by the CLC polarizer. This reflected circularly polarized light finally passes through the CLC polarizer and through the CLC color filters. Therefore, a high brightness, a good contrast and a superior light efficiency are attained.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display device having a retardation film. The retardation film is formed in such a way that one of a UV curable polymer and a UV curable liquid crystal is coated.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filters in which an alignment treatment is accomplished simultaneously with a coloring process during a light exposure process using ultraviolet ray. Photochromic CLC is used for the cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) and a photosensitive alignment material is used for an alignment layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a retardation layer on an outer surface of the first substrate; a linear polarizing layer on the retardation layer; a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter (CCF) layer on an inner surface of the second substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the CCF layer; a first cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) polarizing layer on an outer surface of the second substrate, the first CLC polarizing layer having a first helical pitch of a first circular polarization direction; a second cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) polarizing layer on the first CLC layer, the second CLC polarizing layer having a second helical pitch of a second circular polarization direction opposite to the first circular polarization direction; and a backlight unit outside the second CLC layer.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device include an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the upper and lower substrates, a common electrode beneath the upper substrate, a plurality of orthogonal gate lines and data lines disposed on the lower substrate, a plurality of thin film transistors located near a crossing region of the gate and data lines, each of the plurality of thin film transistors include source and drain electrodes, a light absorption layer formed on each of the plurality of thin film transistors, a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter formed on the light absorption layer, and a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on the cholesteric liquid crystal color filter layer.

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device that can selectively be used in the transmissive mode or the reflective mode. The transflective liquid crystal panel includes a reflective electrode having a transparent portion, a CLC color filter and a CLC polarizer. Light from a backlight device can pass through the transparent portion of the reflective electrode and into the liquid crystal. Moreover, light from the backlight device that is reflected by the reflective electrode can also pass through the transparent portion and into the liquid crystal without being absorbed by the CLC polarizer. The brightness of the transflective LCD device is thus improved.

Abstract: A transparent reflective liquid crystal display device (LCD) is provided that is adaptive for improving a light efficiency and color purity. In the device, a first circular polarizer transmits circular-polarized light having a first direction input from the backlight unit while reflecting circular-polarized light having a second direction contrary to the first direction. A second circular polarizer is arranged in opposition to the first circular polarizer to transmit the circular-polarized light having the second direction while reflecting the circular-polarized light having the first direction. A circular-polarizing color filter is provided at one side of the second circular polarizer to extract circular-polarized light of a specific visible light wavelength band in the circular-polarized light having the first direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter comprises a first substrate, a circular polarizer on the first substrate, a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter on the circular polarizer, a first electrode on the cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter, a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate, a second electrode beneath the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first and second electrodes, a back light under the first substrate, a diffusive film on the second substrate, a retardation layer on the diffusive film, and a linear polarizer on the retardation layer.

Abstract: A transmissive liquid crystal display device includes first and second transparent substrates spaced apart from each other; a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter on the first substrate; a common electrode on the cholesteric liquid crystal color filter; an array of elements arranged on a first surface of the second transparent substrate facing the first transparent substrate; a hologram diffuser formed on a second surface of the second transparent substrate opposing to the first surface; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second transparent substrates; and a backlight device adjacent to the first transparent substrate.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a first transparent electrode beneath the first substrate; a light absorption layer on the second substrate; a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter layer on the light absorption layer, the CLC color filter layer being multi-layered and each layer of the CLC color filter including sub-color filters for red, green and blue colors arranged in an alternating order; a second transparent electrode on the CLC color filter layer; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second transparent electrodes. The CLC color filter layer may be single-layered and each sub-color filter may include a plurality of regions having a different central wavelength of reflection. The CLC color filter layer may be multi-layered with each sub-color filter including a plurality of regions having a different central wavelength of reflection.

Abstract: A reflective cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) display device has a reflection layer in or on a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter to increase a luminance and a contrast ratio of a liquid crystal display device. A reflective cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, an absorption layer on the first substrate, a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter on the absorption layer, a reflection layer on the absorption layer, the reflection layer reflecting light in a whole range of wavelengths, a first electrode on the cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) color filter, a second substrate spaced apart from and over the first substrate, a second electrode beneath the second substrate, a retardation layer on the second substrate, a polarizer on the retardation layer and a liquid crystal layer between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device include an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the upper and lower substrates, a common electrode beneath the upper substrate, a plurality of orthogonal gate lines and data lines disposed on the lower substrate, a plurality of thin film transistors located near a crossing region of the gate and data lines, each of the plurality of thin film transistors include source and drain electrodes, a light absorption layer formed on each of the plurality of thin film transistors, a cholesteric liquid crystal color filter formed on the light absorption layer, and a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on the cholesteric liquid crystal color filter layer.

Abstract: A transparent reflective liquid crystal display device (LCD) is provided that is adaptive for improving a light efficiency and color purity. In the device, a first circular polarizer transmits circular-polarized light having a first direction input from the backlight unit while reflecting circular-polarized light having a second direction contrary to the first direction. A second circular polarizer is arranged in opposition to the first circular polarizer to transmit the circular-polarized light having the second direction while reflecting the circular-polarized light having the first direction. A circular-polarizing color filter is provided at one side of the second circular polarizer to extract circular-polarized light of a specific visible light wavelength band in the circular-polarized light having the first direction.