Abstract: A functioning substrate with a group of columnar micro pillars characterized in that a first matrix of organic polymer and a group of columnar micro pillars of organic polymer extending from this matrix are provided. This group of columnar micro pillars has an equivalent diameter of 10 nm through 500 &mgr;m and a height of 50 nm through 5000 &mgr;m; and the ratio (H/D) of the equivalent diameter (D) to the height (H) of the group of columnar micro pillars is 4 or more.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a back-light assembly for radiating light onto a liquid crystal panel,a main frame having a hook protrusion formed along an upper part for mounting the back-light assembly and the liquid crystal display panel, and a case-top having a plurality of hook plates positioned adjacent to the hook protrusion of the main frame, wherein the case-top includes a bent portions enclosing an edge portion of the liquid crystal display panel and a side portion of the main frame.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a structure for fixing a wire from a backlight. The LCD device includes a liquid crystal module (LCM) having an LCD panel for displaying images and a backlight for uniformly irradiating light to the LCD panel; a wire connected to and extending from the backlight; a main support arranged below the LCM; a first rib arranged at one side of the main support; a through-hole arranged within the main support adjacent the first rib; a guide panel for supporting the LCD panel; and a second rib arranged on the guide panel in correspondence with the through-hole on the main support.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display module comprises a bottom cover having a plurality of lamps installed thereon and at least one or more of guide projection formed thereon; and a reflection sheet for reflecting light generated from the lamps and having a guide hole in order to be inserted in the guide projection.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal panel, a bottom cover having a plurality of lamps installed thereabove, a reflection sheet for reflecting the light generated from the lamps and a main support having openings in which the lamps are inserted, an extension part extending from the openings, and a supporting member for supporting the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A dual mode liquid crystal display device comprising an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a liquid crystal layer between the upper and the lower substrate is provided. The lower substrate further includes a first thin film transistor, a second thin film transistor, a reflective electrode connected to the first thin film transistor, and a regional light-emitting source connected to the second thin film transistor. The first thin film transistor and its electrically connected reflective electrode and the second thin film transistor and its electrically connected light-emitting diode can be positioned inside two separate pixel regions or inside a single pixel region.

Abstract: A flat panel display system includes a polymer memory provided thereon. The flat panel display may include a viewable portion and a non-viewable portion. In an embodiment, the polymer memory system may be provided on a non-viewable planar surface of the display. Owing to the large viewable area of many flat panel displays, it is expected that the polymer memory system can provide a large memory for a computer or other processor-based device without requiring any change in the device's form factor. Thus, such a system finds ready application in notebook computers, personal digital assistance and other mobile processor-based devices.

Abstract: An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate having a non-display region and a display region gate and data lines crossing each other, a gate electrode connected to the gate line, a gate insulating layer on the gate line and the gate electrode, an active layer on the gate insulating layer over the gate electrode, an ohmic contact layer on the active layer, source and drain electrodes spaced apart from each other on the ohmic contact layer, a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode and contacting the gate insulating layer, an alignment layer on the pixel electrode, gate and data pads defined as an end portion of the gate and data lines, respectively, and positioned at the non-display region, and gate and data pad terminals on the gate and data pads, respectively. The data pad terminal may extend to the display region.

Abstract: An image display apparatus comprising a light source 11 and a primary lens array 13, secondary lens array 14 and a superimposing lens 16 for convoluted illumination of a plurality of secondary and tertiary light source images formed from the light source, a liquid crystal light valve 18 for passing light beams of the convoluted illumination light beams that are far from the optical axis L0 of wavelength regions for which the (intensity) level is reduced and passing remaining light beams unrestricted, and a projection lens projecting light modulated by the liquid crystal light valve 18.

Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display, including a transflective film having a PBS array with a satisfactory polarization property, to display a high-contrast image. A liquid crystal display includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate and facing each other, liquid crystal layers disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, an upper polarizing layer disposed above the liquid crystal layers, and a lower reflective polarizing layer disposed below the liquid crystal layers. The lower reflective polarizing layer has a plurality of convex ridges having a triangle wave shape in cross-section and includes a multilayer dielectric film, disposed over the convex ridges, including a plurality of dielectric sub-layers; and the thickness of the multilayer dielectric film disposed on ridgeline portions of the convex ridges is less than or equal to 50% of the height of the convex ridges.

Abstract: Disclosed is an LCD having liquid crystal molecules that lie at a predetermined direction around a valley formed in an upper substrate of the LCD in order to prevent creation of an unadjustable disclination line. The LCD comprises an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a plurality of slits formed in a pixel region of the lower substrate. Each of the slits has a minute distance to the adjacent one of the slits. A valley is formed in a color filter of the upper substrate covered with a transparent electrode, and has a predetermined angle with respect to the slits. Vertical alignment material is formed in opposite faces of the upper and lower substrates. A liquid crystal layer is injected between the upper and lower substrates. Polarizers are arranged in outer faces of the upper and lower substrates, and have transmission axes, which are perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes gate and data lines defining a pixel region on a first substrate. A first insulating layer covers the gate line and a gate electrode. A thin film transistor, formed at a crossing region of the gate and data lines, has the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. A red, green or blue color filter is formed over the first insulating layer in the pixel region. A drain contact hole exposes the drain electrode. A light-shielding color filter pattern including at least two of red, green and blue resins is formed over the semiconductor layer. A pixel electrode is formed over the color filter in the pixel region and contacts the drain electrode. A common electrode is formed on a second substrate facing the first substrate with a liquid crystal layer interposed between the common and pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a color filter is disclosed in the present invention. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate where a plurality of sub-pixels are defined thereon, a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate, and a color filter layer on the second substrate, facing into the first substrate, and having a red sub-color filter, a green sub-color filter, and a blue sub-color filter, wherein one blue sub-color filter corresponds to two sub-pixels adjacent to each other in a first direction perpendicular to a second direction where the red, green, and blue sub-color filters are alternately located.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a black matrix layer on the substrate and having a first plurality of openings, a color filter layer on the black matrix layer and having a second plurality of openings, and a plurality of column spacers each contacting the substrate through the first plurality and second plurality of openings.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an array substrate having a color filter on a thin film transistor structure for a liquid crystal display device is disclosed in the present invention.

Abstract: An optical interference color display comprising a transparent substrate, an inner-front optical diffusion layer, a plurality of first electrodes, a patterned support layer, a plurality of optical films and a plurality of second electrodes is provided. The inner-front optical diffusion layer is on the transparent substrate and the first electrodes are on the inner-front optical diffusion layer. The patterned support layer is on the inner-front optical diffusion layer between the first electrodes. The optical film is on the first electrodes and the second electrodes are positioned over the respective first electrodes. The second electrodes are supported through the patterned support layer. Furthermore, there is an air gap between the second electrodes and their respective first electrodes.

Abstract: An optical interference color display is provided. The optical interference color display comprises a color filtering substrate, a patterned support layer, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of optical films and a plurality of second electrodes. The patterned support layer and the first electrodes are positioned on the color filtering substrate with the patterned support layer between the first electrodes. The optical films are positioned on the first electrodes. The second electrodes is positioned over the first electrodes and supported through the patterned support layer such that an air gap with identical thickness is produce between every pair of second electrode and first electrode. Using the color filtering substrate to show color images, air gap between the first electrodes and the second electrodes are identical and hence simplifies the manufacturing process.

Abstract: A single chip liquid crystal imaging device includes active circuitry under the connection area for the cover glass. For example, at least a portion of on-chip dual frame buffers is located under the epoxy bead which secures the cover glass to the silicon substrate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a chiral nematic display configuration, typically in liquid crystal displays, comprising a chiral nematic display of controllable planar structure and focal conic structure, characterised by the chiral nematic liquid crystal material being between two transparent substrates having conductive electrodes, the material being between two elliptical polarizers and there being an optical reflector. The invention achieves a high contrast black-and-white display. The displays in the embodiment are first and second optical mode configurations of the black-and-white chiral nematic displays.

Abstract: A plurality of reflection films are provided behind a liquid crystal layer of a liquid crystal element, corresponding to predetermined regions in the plural pixels Pix. By the regions of the plural pixels wherein the reflection films are provided, reflection parts Pr are formed that reflects the light that enters from the front side and goes out to the front side by the region where the reflection film is provided, and transmission parts are formed that transmits the light that enters from the back side and goes out to the front side by the other regions of the plural pixels. At the same time, color filters, wherein a plurality of apertures are formed to the parts corresponding to the reflection pars Pr of the pixels Pix, are provided respectively corresponding to the plural pixels Pix, and a planarization transparent film covering the aperture is formed on these color filters.

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 reflective plate used in a liquid crystal display including a substrate, a first peak and depression layer of organic insulator on the substrate, a second peak and depression layer of organic insulator overlapping with the first peak and depression layer, and a reflective layer on the first and second peak and depression layers.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device having a concave reflector includes forming a switching element on a substrate, the switching element comprising a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, forming a first insulating layer on the substrate including the switching element, forming a plurality of photoresist patterns on the first insulating layer, patterning the first insulating layer to have a concave surface by using the photoresist patterns as masks, and forming a reflector on the first insulating layer having the recessed uneven surface.

Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device and a fabricating method thereof are disclosed in the present invention. The transflective liquid crystal display device includes a substrate having a reflective portion and a transmissive portion, a gate line on the substrate, a data line crossing the gate line and defining a pixel region, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, a first organic material layer in the pixel region, the first organic material layer having a plurality of uneven patterns at the reflective portion, a second organic material layer on the first organic material layer, the second organic material layer having an open portion at the transmissive portion, and a reflective layer on the second organic material layer having a transmissive hole at the open portion.

Abstract: A color filter substrate for a transflective liquid crystal display device includes: a substrate having a plurality of pixel regions, each of the plurality of pixel regions having reflective and transmissive portions; a black matrix on the substrate; a buffer layer on the black matrix, the buffer layer having a groove corresponding to the black matrix; a color filter layer on the buffer layer, the color filter layer having a first thickness in the reflective portion and a second thickness in the transmissive portion wherein the first thickness is substantially half of the second thickness, the color filter layer having a step difference at a border between the reflective and transmissive portions; and a common electrode on the color filter layer.

Abstract: An optical film in which a function of a brightness enhancement film is maintained and variations in brightness and chromaticity within a film plane are suppressed is provided. An optical film is a laminate of an absorptive dichroic polarizing plate and a brightness enhancement film. A maximum chromaticity difference &Dgr;xy(max) of in-plane transmitted light is 0.008 or smaller after the optical film is attached to a glass plate and allowed to stand at 70° C. for 120 hours. The brightness enhancement film includes a layer having a circularly polarized light separating function, and a quarter wavelength plate. The quarter wavelength plate is a film showing an in-plane retardation (&Dgr;nd) satisfying &Dgr;nd(450 nm)/&Dgr;nd(550 nm)<1.02 or a film containing a polymer having a photoelastic coefficient of 40×10−12 m2/N or smaller.

Abstract: To provide reflective display and transmissive display with wider view angles and higher contrast in a transflective liquid crystal display device equipped with both reflective and transmissive structures, one dot includes a reflective display region used for reflective display and a transmissive display region used for transmissive display. A liquid crystal layer is formed of a nematic liquid crystal having negative permittivity anisotropy oriented substantially perpendicularly to substrates. A first retardation film having optical biaxiality and a first polarizer are disposed in this order on the outer side of an upper substrate, while a second retardation film having optical biaxiality, a second polarizer and an illuminating device are disposed in this order on the outer side of a lower substrate.

Abstract: An integrated color filter and fabricating method thereof, featuring a transparent organic layer formed under or above a color filter, before or after the fabrication process of the color filter. The transparent organic layer has higher transparency and lower dielectric constant than the color filter. By combining the transparent organic layer and the color filter, the parasitic capacitance is reduced without sacrificing light transmission.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nematic bistable display device, characterized in that it comprises control means (40) for producing, after the anchoring is broken, hybrid textures in which two bistable textures coexist in a controlled proportion within the same pixel, these being separated by 180° volume disclination lines or by 180° reorientation walls on one of the surfaces, and means (40) for the long-term stabilization of the hybrid textures by transformation of the volume lines into surface walls and the immobilization of these walls on the surface.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device include: first and second substrates, the first and second substrates having a plurality of pixels divided into at least two domains; a liquid crystal layer between the first and the second substrates, the liquid crystal layer having a different alignment direction in each domain; and first and second compensation films on outer surfaces of the first and second substrates, the first and second compensation films having a negative refractive anisotropy and having a triangle pattern.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device used for a display unit of information equipment and, more particularly, a liquid crystal display device for which a wide viewing angle and a high brightness are required, or a liquid crystal display device which features an improved production yield, wide viewing angle, high brightness and favorable display quality. The liquid crystal display device comprises a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other maintaining a predetermined cell gap, liquid crystals sealed between the substrates, a pixel electrode formed on the first substrate on the side facing the liquid crystals, a common electrode formed on the second substrate on the side facing the liquid crystals, first slits formed in the pixel electrode, and second slits formed in the common electrode, and extending in a direction nearly at right angles with the direction in which the first slits are extending as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the substrate surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-domain liquid crystal display device, by which a black matrix area is reduced to improve an aperture ratio in a manner that at least two slits or protrusions are provided on a domain boundary corresponding to an edge area of a pixel to distort an electric field so that a ‘-’ type disclination line is induced. The present invention includes first and second substrates, gate and data lines arranged to cross with each other on the first substrate to define a pixel, a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, first and second alignment layers on the first and second substrates for causing liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer to form as least two domain having different liquid crystal alignment directions in the pixel, and an electric field distorting means on a boundary of the two domains.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having variable viewing angles includes a first liquid crystal cell having first and second substrates spaced apart from and facing each other, a pixel electrode formed on an inner surface of the first substrate, a common electrode formed on an inner surface of the second substrate, and a first liquid crystal layer interposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode; a second liquid crystal cell on the first liquid crystal cell, the second liquid crystal cell having third and fourth substrates spaced apart from and facing each other, and two alignment layers, wherein the first and second alignment layers are arranged to have holographic patterns; and a switching part for selectively applying electric field to the second liquid crystal.

Abstract: In order to provide a liquid crystal display causing no unevenness of the cell gap and preventing the occurrence of non-uniformity of a display in spite of a conductive material, for electrically connecting two substrates, provided in an area inside a sealant, the liquid crystal display has a configuration that a liquid crystal panel has a liquid crystal layer between two transparent substrates which are adhered to each other by a sealing adhesive and a conductive material is formed in a spot form along the liquid crystal layer side of the sealing adhesive so as to electrically connect opposing electrode connecting terminals to opposing common electrodes formed on the transparent substrates.

Abstract: An array substrate device for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line extending along a first direction on the substrate, a data line extending along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction on the substrate, a pixel region defined by a crossing of the gate and data lines, a common line extending along the first direction and spaced apart from the gate line, a common electrode having a plurality of first portions extended along the second direction from the common line to the pixel region, wherein the extended portion of the common electrode adjacent to the data line includes first and second extensions overlapping portions of the data line, a thin film transistor on the substrate at a crossing portion of the gate and data lines, the thin film transistor including source and drain electrodes, a pixel electrode extended from the drain electrode to the pixel region, and an auxiliary electrode connected to the extended portion of the common electrode adjacen

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes a lower substrate having pixels arranged thereon in a matrix, each pixel being defined and surrounded by a gate line and a pair of adjacent data lines crossing substantially normal to the gate line, a common line, an upper substrate having a black matrix and a color filter formed thereon, a spacer formed on the lower substrate including the region adjacent to the data lines, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a gate line and a data line on the first substrate, and crossing each other to define a pixel region, a thin film transistor electrically connected to the gate and data lines, a pixel electrode in the pixel region, the pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor and having a plurality of slits, an auxiliary electrode on the first substrate, and the auxiliary including a first portion corresponding to a circumference of the pixel electrode and a second portion of a zigzag shape in the first portion, a common electrode on the second substrate, and an organic pattern on the common electrode, the organic pattern including a first part corresponding to a circumference of the pixel electrode and a plurality of second parts between adjacent slits, wherein the auxiliary electrode overlaps the plurality of slits and the organic pattern.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a gate line and a data line arranged along first and second directions on the first substrate to define a pixel area, a passivation layer on the first substrate except within the pixel area, a light blocking system on the first substrate and on a stepped portion of the passivation layer adjacent to the data line, a plurality of common electrodes disposed within the pixel area, at least one of the common electrodes overlap a portion of the data line, and a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed within the pixel area, wherein the pixel electrodes and the common electrodes form a lateral electric field.

Abstract: The present invention is related to an array substrate for use in an IPS-LCD device, which prevents disclination that may occur between common and pixel electrodes. The pixel electrode in a pixel region includes a plurality of pixel fingers and a pixel horizontal portion, and the common electrode in the pixel region includes a plurality of common fingers extending from a common line parallel with the pixel fingers. Each of the common fingers has a gentle slope outline at a portion where the common finger meets the pixel finger, wherein the common fingers do not meet the pixel horizontal portion in the pixel region.

Abstract: An electric field that is parallel with a TFT substrate is formed by a pair of electrodes formed on the TFT substrate. Liquid crystal molecules in a light modulating layer are caused to respond electro-optically to the electric field. The light modulating layer is constituted of a liquid crystal material, an optically active substance, and a dichroic dye. The spiral pitch p [&mgr;m] of the light modulating layer, the cell thickness d [&mgr;m], the twist angle n of liquid crystal molecules, and the interelectrode interval L [&mgr;m] are set in ranges of 1≦p≦15, 1≦d≦10, n≦300°, and L<25.

Abstract: An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a gate line on of the first substrate; a gate pad formed at one end of the gate line; a common line parallel to and spaced apart from the gate line; a data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region; a data pad formed at one end of the data line; a terminal line parallel to and spaced apart from the data line, the terminal line being connected to one end of the common line; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode in the pixel region, the pixel electrode being connected to the thin film transistor; a common electrode connected to the common line; a contact terminal connected to the other end of the common line opposite the terminal line, the contact terminal having an island shape; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A substrate has an array testing system for use in a liquid crystal display device. The substrate includes a plurality of array cells each including a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a pad area adjacent to first and second sides of the non-display area. The substrate further includes a plurality of test pads outside the plurality of array cells and a plurality of test lines each connecting a corresponding one of the array cells with a corresponding one of the test pads. Here, each one of the test lines partially pass through the non-display area of an array cell adjacent to the corresponding one of the array cells.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device for removing residual charge includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines arranged along vertical and horizontal directions, respectively, on a transparent substrate, a source driver for supplying data voltage to the data lines, a gate driver for supplying gate voltage to the gate lines, and a plurality of common voltage lines connected to the data lines and the gate lines through a plurality of static electricity preventing units, wherein at least one of the static electricity preventing units is directly connected to the source driver.

Abstract: There is explained a fabrication method of a liquid crystal display panel capable of simplifying a substrate structure and a fabrication process.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a display device, which prevents electrostatic breakdown of the display device both before and after a circuit test without reducing the productivity in forming a plurality of display devices on a substrate to be processed by a step-and-repeat exposing method. A wiring pattern group led out from signal input terminals of the display devices to the edge of the substrate to be processed is efficiently formed by exposing to light through a repetitive pattern integrated with a display device pattern. Depending on the states of the wiring pattern group as to contact or non-contact with a detachable and conductive component, the signal input terminals of the display devices can be easily switched between in a short circuited state and a non-short circuited state. Accordingly, both the measure against electrostatic breakdown and the circuit test are achieved in the display devices on the substrate to be processed.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided with a display member which is printed in gradations of color from a first color to a second color from one side of the member to other side, and an electro-optical display device having plural dot display sections disposed on the display member. The plural dot display sections are selectively driven, to display characters, images, etc. in gradations of color. The display apparatus which is simple in structure and low in manufacturing cost advantages to improve image and/or character discrimination and is used for an adornment purpose.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a digitizer and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed in the present invention. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display device module, a printed circuit board located in close proximity to a support main of the liquid crystal display device module, and a fixing device to insert a digitizer.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes forming a gate electrode, a gate bus line, and a gate pad on a substrate using a first mask process, forming a gate insulating layer and an active layer on an entire surface of the substrate, forming a first organic material film on an entire surface of the substrate, removing a portion of the first organic material film to expose a first portion of the gate pad, depositing a transparent film on an entire surface of the substrate, patterning the transparent film using a second half-tone mask to form a data bus line, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a pixel electrode, a channel layer, and an ohmic contact layer, exposing portions of the data pad and data bus line using a third mask, forming a second organic material film on an entire surface of the substrate, depositing a low resistance material on the data bus line, coating a passivation film on the substrate, removing the second organic material film using a lift-off process to expose a s

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate having an image display part; a metal line on the substrate; an insulating film on the metal line; a passivation film on the insulating film; a semiconductor layer for increasing the adhesive bond between the insulating film and the passivation film; and a sealant pattern of sealant having a path formed along the periphery of the image display part, wherein the insulating film and the passivation layer have a plurality of holes along the path of the sealant pattern.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a seal pattern. The first substrate has an image display portion thereon, and the seal pattern is along an outer periphery of the image display portion to attach the first substrate with the second substrate. The first substrate includes at least one conductive line disposed at a corner portion of the first substrate, a multi-layer film disposed on the first substrate and the at least one conductive line, and a transparent electrode formed on the multi-layer film and in the bonding holes. The multi-layer film defines a plurality of bonding holes disposed along a region where the seal pattern is disposed. Herein, the transparent electrode is entirely disposed within a boundary defined by an outer side of the seal pattern.