Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display panel, which includes an array substrate, a counter substrate and a spacer. The array substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of signal lines on the base substrate. The plurality of signal lines include a plurality of first signal lines and a plurality of second signal lines. The plurality of first signal lines and the plurality of second signal lines intersect each other to define a plurality of first regions. The plurality of first regions include a plurality of first pixel regions, at least one second pixel region and at least one redundant region. The first signal line extends along a first direction, the second signal line includes a body portion extending along a second direction, at least one second signal line further includes a bending portion connected to the body portion.

Abstract: A multispectral or thermal imager comprising a lens assembly, an array of IC chips that is arranged in a field of view of the lens assembly, and a filter assembly comprising one or more wavelength filters. The filter assembly comprises a respective wavelength filter for at least one of the three or more rows of IC chips. At least one wavelength filter is transparent in a portion of a wavelength range that passes through the lens assembly. The filter assembly is configured such that radiation of the same wavelength range passes to the rows of IC chips in the pair of non-adjacent rows, and such that the wavelength range that passes to the rows in the pair of non-adjacent rows is different from a wavelength range that passes to the one or more rows other than the pair of non-adjacent rows.

Abstract: A display panel includes a light source section, a light guide section, a liquid crystal layer, a partition section, a display section, and a diffraction section. The light source section emits plural lights of different colors. The light emitted from the light source section enters the light guide section. The light that has passed through the light guide section enters the liquid crystal layer. The partition section partitions the liquid crystal layer into plural pixel regions. The partition section includes plural scanning lines and plural black matrices arranged at intervals in an intersecting direction that intersects with a thickness direction of the light guide section. An image formed by the light emitted from the plural pixel regions is displayed on the display section. The diffraction section diffracts the plural lights that have entered the light guide section from the light source section.

Abstract: A pixel unit includes: a first insulating layer; a first pixel electrode located on a first side of the first insulating layer and including a plurality of first electrode strips; a common electrode located on the first side of the first insulating layer and including a plurality of second electrode strips, the second electrode strips and the first electrode strips being sequentially and alternately arranged in a first direction, and slits each being disposed between a second electrode strip in the second electrode strips and a first electrode strip in the first electrode strips that are adjacent to each other; and a second pixel electrode located on a second side of the first insulating layer. The second side of the first insulating to layer is opposite to the first side of the first insulating layer. The second pixel electrode is overlapped with at least a region where the slits are located.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an electrically-controlled birefringence cell. The cell has a cell gap no more than 20 micrometers. The cell has an alignment layer arranged to impart a pretilt on liquid crystal in contact with the alignment layer. The method comprises processing the alignment layer to achieve a surface anchoring value between the liquid crystal and alignment layer of less than 1 mJ/m2.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes an array substrate, a counter substrate disposed to face the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the array substrate and the counter substrate, in which the array substrate is provided with a plurality of pixel electrodes aligned at intervals in a plane of the array substrate, a common electrode disposed to overlap the plurality of pixel electrodes, an insulating film disposed on an upper layer side of the common electrode, and an alignment film disposed on an upper layer side of the insulating film, a light blocking portion and a spacer are provided in the counter substrate, the light blocking portion separating the plurality of pixel electrodes, the spacer being disposed to overlap the light blocking portion and protruding to the liquid crystal layer side from the counter substrate, the alignment film is connected to the common electrode directly or via another member through an opening provided in the insulating film, and the opening is disposed at

Abstract: An array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel are provided. The array substrate includes at least one first pixel. In the first pixel electrodes to which the first pixels correspond, an included angle formed between at least one branch electrode and a first trunk portion is not equal to included angles formed between the other branch electrodes and the first trunk portion. The array substrate of the present disclosure alleviates the problem of narrow viewing angles of the liquid crystal display panel by brightness complementation of the pixel electrodes at different viewing angles.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a panel main body. A first dimming element is disposed on a side of the panel main body. The first dimming element has a first alignment direction. A second dimming element is disposed on a side of the panel main body away from the first dimming element or between the first dimming element and the panel body. The second dimming element has a second alignment direction. The first alignment direction is perpendicular to the second alignment direction. The applicability of the display panel is improved, and it has an anti-peeping effect.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate, an insulating layer, an alignment film, and a sealant. The insulating layer is disposed on the substrate and with a plurality of grooves. The alignment film is disposed on the insulating layer. The sealant is disposed on the alignment film. Wherein, the sealant overlaps at least a portion of the plurality of grooves. In a predetermined unit region, the side length of the predetermined unit region is a maximum width X of the sealant, and a total side length of the portions of the plurality of grooves located in the predetermined unit region is greater than 8 times of the maximum width X.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device includes a first substrate having sub-pixel areas, each sub-pixel area having a light-emitting area and a non-light-emitting area; thin-film transistors respectively in non-light-emitting areas of the sub-pixel areas; a first planarization layer in the sub-pixel areas while covering the thin-film transistors; organic light-emitting elements on the first planarization layer and in light-emitting areas of the sub-pixel areas; a liquid crystal layer on the organic light-emitting elements and in the sub-pixel areas and in an area between the sub-pixel areas; and a second substrate on the liquid crystal layer. Liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer in the light-emitting areas are in a hybrid alignment. In the hybrid alignment, an alignment of the liquid crystal molecules gradually changes from a horizontal alignment to a vertical alignment. Liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer in the non-light-emitting areas are in a tilted alignment.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate including scanning lines extending in a first direction and being arranged in a second direction, video signal lines extending in the second direction and being arranged in the first direction, pixel electrodes arranged in regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the video signal lines, and common electrodes formed with an insulating film arranged between the common electrodes and the pixel electrodes; a counter substrate opposed to the TFT substrate; and a liquid crystal. The first common electrode extends between the first and second scanning lines in the first direction, and the second common electrode extends between the second and third scanning lines in the first direction. The first and second common electrodes are electrically connected by a bridge. The bridge covers the first video signal line without covering the second video signal line, when seen in a plan view.

Abstract: A privacy display comprises a polarised output spatial light modulator, reflective polariser, plural polar control retarders and a polariser. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance. Further, display reflectivity is reduced for on-axis reflections of ambient light, while reflectivity is increased for off-axis light. The visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers is reduced by means of luminance reduction and increased frontal reflectivity to ambient light. In a public mode of operation, the liquid crystal retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance and reflectivity are unmodified.

Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a display layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of light emitting areas; a code pattern layer disposed on the display layer and including a plurality of position code patterns; and a reflective layer that receives first light incident from the outside having a first wavelength band and reflects the first light to generate second light having a second wavelength band, wherein a second peak wavelength of the second light is smaller than a first peak wavelength of the first light.

Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel electrode having a first strip electrode and a second strip electrode, a second pixel electrode having a third strip electrode and a fourth strip electrode disposed in the second main pixel, and a light-shielding layer overlapping the first strip electrode. The light-shielding layer has a first opening exposing the second strip electrode, and a second opening exposing the third strip electrode and the fourth strip electrode. A size of the first opening is less than a size of the second opening. A width of the second strip electrode is less than a width of the first strip electrode.

Abstract: A shooting method applied to the electronic device including a display screen and a camera. The display screen includes a first polarizer and a second polarizer, and a liquid crystal is arranged between the first polarizer and the second polarizer. The method includes: adjusting an electrode voltage of the display screen as a target voltage value, where in a case that the electrode voltage of the display screen is the target voltage value, and a light transmittance of the display screen meets a preset condition; and acquiring a first image through the camera.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first alignment film covering a pixel electrode, a second substrate including a second alignment film covering a second common electrode, a sealant attaching the first substrate and the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first alignment film and the second alignment film, wherein the first alignment film and the second alignment film are formed of a material in which a principal chain is composed of silica (SiO2), and extend at a position overlapping the sealant between an inner face and an outer face of the sealant.

Abstract: In this liquid crystal display device, a plurality of pixels 30 are arranged in a display region. The liquid crystal display device comprises a first substrate 11 in which a pixel electrode 15 having slits 15a is provided, a second substrate disposed face to the first substrate 11, a liquid crystal layer 13 containing liquid crystal molecules that have negative dielectric anisotropy, a first alignment film 22, and a second alignment film 23. The slits 15a are positioned in each alignment region of a plurality of alignment regions in the pixels 30, and have oblique slit parts extending in an oblique direction with respect to sides of the pixels 30. The angle ? formed by the direction in which the oblique slit parts extends and a liquid crystal projection direction is 15 degrees or more and 85 degrees or less.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel is provided and includes first and second substrates with liquid crystal layer therebetween; and first electrode in display region; second electrode disposed between first electrode and first substrate; and alignment film having alignment direction, wherein first electrode has: pair of electrode branches; slit between pair of electrode branches; first and second connections connecting pair of electrode branches; wherein first electrode has areas including first and second bent portions, main portion disposed between first and second bent portions, wherein first bent portion is adjacent to contact hole of first electrode, wherein first and second bent portions are bent relative to main portion, and wherein direction of first bent portion is substantially parallel to direction of second bent portion.

Abstract: The display device has a first substrate having a display area including pixels and a peripheral area surrounding the display area and including a peripheral circuit, a second substrate arranged facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of gate wirings spaced apart in a first direction in the peripheral circuit of the first substrate, and a plurality of signal lines spaced apart in a second direction intersecting the first direction, wherein the second substrate has a black matrix with a lattice area at a position facing the display area and the peripheral circuit, and the lattice area of the black matrix is arranged to overlap the plurality of gate wirings and the plurality of signal lines of the peripheral circuit.

Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a method for preparing same, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes an array substrate and an opposite substrate, which are oppositely arranged, and a liquid crystal layer, which is arranged between the array substrate and the opposite substrate, wherein a compensation layer is arranged on the array substrate or the opposite substrate, and an included angle between an optical axis direction of the compensation layer and an initial optical axis direction of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer is less than or equal to 10 degrees; dispersion characteristics of the liquid crystal layer and the compensation layer are the opposite of each other.

Abstract: A display device and manufacturing method thereof with a high level of reliability is provided without increasing the number of manufacturing processes. The display device includes a first conductor, a first insulation layer including a first contact hole exposing a part of the first conductor, a second insulation layer including a second contact hole exposing at least a part of the first contact hole and a part of a surface of the first insulation layer, a pixel electrode overlapping a part of the second contact hole and electrically connected to the first conductor, and a third insulation layer contacting the first insulation layer via the second contact hole.

Abstract: A display driver includes: a conversion part which converts first to n-th display data pieces representing a brightness level of each pixel based on an image signal into first to n-th gradation voltages each having a voltage value corresponding to the brightness level and outputs them, where n is an integer of 2 or more; a polarity inversion signal generation circuit which generates a polarity inversion signal for prompting polarity inversion for each frame display period according to the image signal; a first external terminal which receives an operation mode signal representing a test mode or a normal mode; and a first selector which receives a test polarity inversion signal and the polarity inversion signal, selects and outputs the polarity inversion signal when the operation mode signal represents the normal mode, and selects and outputs the test polarity inversion signal when the operation mode signal represents the test mode.

Abstract: A device for photo alignment includes: a bearing platform; a linearly polarized light source located at one side of the bearing platform; and a control assembly located between the linearly polarized light source and the bearing platform. One side of the bearing platform close to the control assembly is configured for placing a large plate glass to be aligned, and the large plate glass to be aligned includes a plurality of alignment areas; the linearly polarized light source is configured for providing a first polarized light to the control assembly; the control assembly is configured for adjusting a polarization direction of the first polarized light, and configured for providing a second polarized light to the plurality of alignment areas included in the large plate glass to be aligned; and polarization directions of the second polarized light respectively corresponding to at least two alignment areas are different.

Abstract: A light control sheet including a first transparent electrode layer, a second transparent electrode layer, a light control layer including a resin layer which is formed between the first and second transparent electrode layers and includes a liquid crystal composition in holes formed in the resin layer, the liquid crystal composition including liquid crystal molecules, and a first alignment layer formed between the first transparent electrode layer and the light control layer such that a haze of the light control layer is increased upon application of a voltage to the first transparent electrode layer. The light control layer includes a first high-density portion and a low-density portion, and the first high-density portion is in contact with the first alignment layer and includes the liquid crystal composition at a density higher than a density of the liquid crystal composition in the low-density portion per unit thickness of the light control layer.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a light modulation panel, a light modulation panel and a light modulation device. The light modulation panel comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged in align with each other, a liquid crystal filled between the first substrate and the second substrate, and spacer structures located between the first substrate and the second substrate and configured to maintain a cell gap of the liquid crystal; wherein the spacer structures comprise a first post spacer and a second post spacer arranged in a cascaded manner, the first post spacer is arranged on a side of the first substrate close to the second substrate, the second post spacer is arranged on a side of the second substrate close to the first substrate.

Abstract: A touch panel and a touch display device are provided. The touch panel includes a display module and a package cover plate. The display module includes a display screen and a first polarizer placed on a side of the display screen. A first frame glue is placed between the package cover plate and the display module, and the first frame glue, the package cover plate and the display module form a cavity. A first liquid crystal is filled in the cavity. The first liquid crystal includes a plurality of first liquid crystal molecules, and orthogonal projections of light axes of some of the first liquid crystal molecules intersect a polarization direction of the first polarizer.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. A retaining wall is disposed on a middle position of a driver circuit layer, the retaining wall can prevent an insulating film from overlapping a whole sealing layer in an insulating film coating process, which improves adhesion of the display panel and reliability against high temperature and high humidity, thereby improving quality of the display panel.

Abstract: A flexible optical element adopting liquid crystals (LCs) as the materials for realizing electrically tunable optics is foldable. A method for manufacturing the flexible element includes patterned photo-polymerization. The LC optics can include a pair of LC layers with orthogonally aligned LC directors for polarizer-free properties, flexible polymeric alignment layers, flexible substrates, and a module for controlling the electric field. The lens power of the LC optics can be changed by controlling the distribution of electric field across the optical zone.

Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first electrically conductive portion and a second electrically conductive portion disposed between the first substrate and the second substrates. The first substrate includes a first line, a second line, a first connection electrode projecting from the first line toward the second line, and a second connection electrode projecting from the second line toward the first line. The second substrate includes a first electrode, a third connection electrode electrically connected to the first electrode and disposed to overlap the first connection electrode, a second electrode, and a fourth connection electrode electrically connected to the second electrode and disposed to overlap the second connection electrode. The first electrically conductive portion overlaps and contacts the first connection electrode and the third connection electrode.

Abstract: The display device of the present disclosure comprises: a display panel; a backlight for providing light to the display panel; a liquid crystal panel which is arranged between the display panel and the backlight and which includes a first transparent electrode sheet, a second transparent electrode sheet, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the first and second transparent electrode sheets and arranged according to the difference in voltages applied to the first and second transparent electrode sheets; and a control unit for applying a driving voltage to a block, which corresponds to a region of the display panel, from among a plurality of blocks of the first transparent electrode sheet in order to apply a voltage to a specific point inside the block, wherein the voltage applied to the specific point is determined on the basis of the distance between a point of the first transparent electrode sheet.

Abstract: Provided are a method of manufacturing an optical element in which an optically-anisotropic layer having a small amount of in-plane unevenness can be prepared, and an optical element.

Abstract: A liquid crystal alignment agent and a preparation method thereof, a liquid crystal alignment film and a preparation method thereof, and a liquid crystal cell are provided. A piperazine monomer is added to a liquid crystal alignment agent, a bulk resistance value and a surface resistance value of a liquid crystal alignment agent material can be reduced, and the ability of the liquid crystal alignment agent material to release residual charges can be effectively improved, thereby increasing the reliability and stability of an electronic product. The liquid crystal cell using the liquid crystal alignment agent has advantages such as high voltage holding ratio (VHR) and low residual voltage.

Abstract: The present invention is to enable avoidance of a reduction in external appearance quality, and stable driving, and prevent diffracted light from being discerned by avoiding a reduction in transmittance and a deterioration in liquid crystal alignment. A light control film is provided with: a first laminate in which an alignment layer is provided; a second laminate in which an alignment layer is provided; a liquid crystal layer which is sandwiched between the first and second laminates and contains liquid crystal molecules; a spacer disposed in the liquid crystal layer to hold the thickness of the liquid crystal layer; and electrodes provided in the first laminate and/or the second laminate, and controls transmitted light by controlling the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules driven by the electrodes. The proportion of an area occupied by the spacer per unit area in a light controllable-region of the liquid crystal layer is 0.1-10%.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is provided, which includes a color filter substrate, an array substrate disposed opposite to the color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the color filter substrate and the array substrate. The array substrate includes: a substrate; an array driving layer disposed on the substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the array driving layer; a pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer and electrically connected to a thin film transistor in the array driving layer by a via hole on the insulating layer; and a distributed Bragg reflective film disposed on the pixel electrode.

Abstract: The present invention is to enable avoidance of a reduction in external appearance quality, and stable driving, and prevent diffracted light from being discerned by avoiding a reduction in transmittance and a deterioration in liquid crystal alignment. A light control film is provided with: a first laminate in which an alignment layer is provided; a second laminate in which an alignment layer is provided; a liquid crystal layer which is sandwiched between the first and second laminates and contains liquid crystal molecules; a spacer disposed in the liquid crystal layer to hold the thickness of the liquid crystal layer; and electrodes provided in the first laminate and/or the second laminate, and controls transmitted light by controlling the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules driven by the electrodes. The proportion of an area occupied by the spacer per unit area in a light controllable-region of the liquid crystal layer is 0.1-10%.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes, a first inorganic insulating layer, a first metal layer, a wiring group, a first organic insulating layer formed above the first inorganic insulating layer, the first metal layer and the wiring group, a second inorganic insulating layer formed above the first organic insulating layer and includes an opening portion overlapping the first metal layer, and a first transparent conductive layer formed above the second inorganic insulating layer, overlapping the opening portion and electrically connected to the first metal layer. The first organic insulating layer includes a groove portion which exposes the first inorganic insulating layer between the opening portion and the wiring group.

Abstract: The present application provides a pixel electrode, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel electrode includes a stripe main electrode, a first metal trace, and branch electrodes; the stripe main electrode includes a first main electrode and a second main electrode; the first metal trace is disposed between two main traces parallel to a first direction, and is coupled to the first main electrode and the second main electrode to form four display regions.

Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel electrode having a first strip electrode and a second strip electrode, a second pixel electrode having a third strip electrode and a fourth strip electrode disposed in the second main pixel, and a light-shielding layer overlapping the first strip electrode. The light-shielding layer has a first opening exposing the second strip electrode, and a second opening exposing the third strip electrode and the fourth strip electrode. A size of the first opening is less than a size of the second opening. A width of the second strip electrode is less than a width of the first strip electrode.

Abstract: A privacy display comprises a polarised output spatial light modulator, reflective polariser, plural polar control retarders and a polariser. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance. Further, display reflectivity is reduced for on-axis reflections of ambient light, while reflectivity is increased for off-axis light. The visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers is reduced by means of luminance reduction and increased frontal reflectivity to ambient light. In a public mode of operation, the liquid crystal retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance and reflectivity are unmodified.

Abstract: Disclosed in the disclosure are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a first base substrate; a plurality of scan signal lines arranged on a side of the first base substrate; a plurality of data signal lines arranged on sides, facing away from the first base substrate, of the scan signal lines; and first shielding parts arranged on sides, facing away from the scan signal lines, of the data signal lines, wherein each first shielding part is of a strip structure, and in each sub-pixel unit, both sides of the data signal line are each provided with one first shielding part.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode, a second substrate including a common electrode, a liquid crystal layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate and containing polymer and liquid crystal molecules, and a light emitting element opposed to an end surface of the second substrate, the common electrode being separated from the pixel electrode by a first distance, at a first position, the common electrode being separated from the pixel electrode by a second distance, at a second position more separated from the light emitting element than the first position, the second distance being smaller than the first distance.

Abstract: A novel detection system and method is presented, where a two-bead receptor method is used for capturing pathogens, with one type of bead being magnetic and having a size of 3 microns or smaller, and the other type being polymeric and having a size of 3 microns or larger. The first type is used to concentrate a pathogen; the latter is used to create a detectable signal. Fast sensitive detection is achieved by collecting the optical signal created by the distortion of a homeotropically aligned chromonic azo dye in the presence of captured pathogens.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a liquid crystal layer between a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a wiring line and a pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer contains a stripe-shaped polymer extending in a first direction and a liquid crystal molecule. The liquid crystal layer contains a first polymer in an area overlapping the wiring line and a second polymer in an area overlapping the pixel electrode. The first polymer includes a first portion extending in a direction different from the first direction. The second polymer includes a second portion extending in a direction different from the first direction. A density of the first portion is higher than a density of the second portion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel is provided and includes first and second substrates with liquid crystal layer therebetween; and first electrode in display region; second electrode disposed between first electrode and first substrate; and alignment film having alignment direction, wherein first electrode has: pair of electrode branches; slit between pair of electrode branches; first and second connections connecting pair of electrode branches; wherein first electrode has areas including first and second bent portions, main portion disposed between first and second bent portions, wherein first bent portion is adjacent to contact hole of first electrode, wherein first and second bent portions are bent relative to main portion, and wherein direction of first bent portion is substantially parallel to direction of second bent portion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device including a single or a plurality of pixel elements is provided. Each pixel element includes: a first substrate, a second substrate parallel to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first plurality of electrodes formed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, a second plurality of electrodes formed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The first plurality of electrodes and the second plurality of electrodes are composed to generate electric fields in three orthogonal directions, and the electric fields in two of the three orthogonal directions are in-plane electric fields, while the other electric field of the three orthogonal directions is an out-of-plane electric field.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a liquid crystal layer between a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a wiring line and a pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer contains a stripe-shaped polymer extending in a first direction and a liquid crystal molecule. The liquid crystal layer contains a first polymer in an area overlapping the wiring line and a second polymer in an area overlapping the pixel electrode. The first polymer includes a first portion extending in a direction different from the first direction. The second polymer includes a second portion extending in a direction different from the first direction. A density of the first portion is higher than a density of the second portion.

Abstract: A pixel electrode structure and a liquid crystal display panel are provided. The pixel electrode structure includes a trunk electrode, a control electrode, and a connection electrode. The trunk electrode divides the pixel electrode structure into a first pixel electrode region and a second pixel electrode region. The control electrode is close to the first pixel electrode region and away from the second pixel electrode region, and is connected to a second branch electrode of the second pixel electrode region through the connection electrode. Increasing a transmission distance from the control electrode to the pixel electrode in a display region prevents an occurrence of dark streaks.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a liquid crystal layer between a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a wiring line and a pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer contains a stripe-shaped polymer extending in a first direction and a liquid crystal molecule. The liquid crystal layer contains a first polymer in an area overlapping the wiring line and a second polymer in an area overlapping the pixel electrode. The first polymer includes a first portion extending in a direction different from the first direction. The second polymer includes a second portion extending in a direction different from the first direction. A density of the first portion is higher than a density of the second portion.

Abstract: The present application relates to an optical device. The present application provides an optical device capable of varying transmittance, and such an optical device can be used for various applications such as eyewear, for example, sunglasses or AR (augmented reality) or VR (virtual reality) eyewear, an outer wall of a building or a sunroof for a vehicle.

Abstract: A display apparatus (DSP1) includes: a flexible substrate (10) configured to include a region (DA1) and a region (DA2) on its surface; a liquid crystal film (LQ); and a photolytic alignment film configured to be in contact with the liquid crystal film (LQ). A material of the alignment film (AL1) in the region (DA1) is different from a material of the alignment film (AL2) in the region (DA2).