Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method for forming a film, the film including a first portion provided on a substrate and a second portion provided along an outer edge of the first portion, and surrounding the first portion, includes a step of forming the second portion by spraying liquid drops on the substrate, each of the liquid drops containing material of the second portion. The method also includes a step of forming the first portion by spraying other liquid drops on a region in the substrate, the region being surrounded by the second portion, and each of the other liquid drops containing material of the first portion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) according to the present invention includes: an active matrix substrate (220) having a pixel electrode (224); a counter substrate (240) having a counter electrode (244); a vertical-alignment type liquid crystal layer (260); and alignment sustaining layers (210, 230) provided between the active matrix substrate (220) and the liquid crystal layer (260) and between the counter substrate (240) and the liquid crystal layer (260). The alignment sustaining layers (210, 230) contain a polymerization product (poa) resulting from polymerization of a polyfunctional monomer. At least one of the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate further includes an alignment film (110, 120) located on the liquid crystal layer side, the alignment film (110, 120) containing polyimide (pi) and a polymerization product (pob) resulting from polymerization of a polyfunctional monomer.

Abstract: The invention discloses a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel manufacturing method as well as an LCD panel and an LCD. The manufacturing method comprises the following steps: A: Treating a surface of an electrode of an LCD panel, the surface at least comprising a contact surface with an Au ball, to diminish the adhesion of an alignment liquid to the contact surface and prevent the alignment liquid from not coating the contact surface; and B: Coating or printing the alignment liquid. Because the electrode surface to which an Au ball particle will be applied (namely the transfer pad) is treated before the application to diminish the adhesion of the alignment liquid to this surface, and no alignment layer will be formed on the surface of the transfer pad. Therefore, the alignment layer can be very wide, the uniformity of the alignment layer at the edge is good, the accuracy is high, the display effect on the edge of the LCD panel is improved, and the frame of the LCD panel is narrowed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including a first substrate and a second substrate that are arranged to face each other while sandwiching liquid crystal, wherein: a first electrode and plural second electrodes are formed at a pixel area on the first substrate on the liquid crystal side; an alignment layer is provided which includes a first alignment layer formed on the first substrate on the liquid crystal side to cover the second electrodes and a second alignment layer formed on the first alignment layer on the liquid crystal side; the resistance of the second alignment layer is lower than that of the first alignment layer; and the transmittance of the second alignment layer is lower than that of the first alignment layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a substrate, a base body that is disposed opposing the substrate, a liquid crystal layer that is held between the substrate and the base body, an inorganic alignment film that is provided between the liquid crystal layer and the substrate or the base body, and a protection film that is provided between the inorganic alignment film and the liquid crystal layer, the inorganic alignment film has a plurality of grooves that are hollowed toward the surface on the opposite side of the liquid crystal layer from the surface on the liquid crystal layer side, and the protection film has a cave-in shape toward the opposite side to the liquid crystal layer from the liquid crystal layer side in at least one portion of portions corresponding to the plurality of grooves.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first electrode, a stage including an electrode formation surface, a switching element, a second electrode and a first vertical alignment film. The second substrate includes a third electrode and a second vertical alignment film. The electrode formation surface is positioned closer to the second substrate than a portion of the first vertical alignment film, which opposes the first electrode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display panel includes an array substrate and a counter substrate. The array substrate includes an inorganic insulating film, a first wiring line, a second wiring line, an organic insulating film, a slit and a moisture-proof member. The slit is formed to extend through the organic insulating film between the first wiring line and the second wiring line. The moisture-proof member is filled in the slit and is in contact with the inorganic insulating film.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes: coating a polyimide (PI) solution on at least a portion area of an inner surface of a first substrate to form a first PI film; coating the PI solution on at least a portion area of an inner surface of a second substrate to form a second PI film; coating a seal on the second PI film; and mating the first substrate and the second substrate to each other to have the seal jointed to the first PI film. With this method, the present invention reduces moire patterns and halo effect so as to improve the result of displaying.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element including a first alignment film and a second alignment film and a liquid crystal layer that is provided between the first alignment film and the second alignment film, wherein the first alignment film includes a compound in which a polymer compound that includes a cross-linked functional group or a polymerized functional group as a side chain is cross-linked or polymerized, the second alignment film includes the same compound as the compound that configures the first alignment film, and the formation and processing of the second alignment film is different from the formation and processing of the first alignment film and when a pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules which is conferred by the first alignment film is ?1 and a pretilt angle of the liquid crystal molecules which is conferred by the second alignment film is ?2, ?1>?2.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first alignment layer. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate, and includes a second alignment layer. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and second substrates, and the first alignment layer and the second alignment layer contact the liquid crystal layer. The first alignment layer and the second alignment layer are defined as first-type alignment layers, and either the first substrate or the second substrates has a second-type alignment layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal lens panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first base substrate, a lens common electrode disposed on the first base substrate, and a first alignment layer disposed on the lens common electrode, the first alignment layer including a first alignment direction. The second substrate includes a second base substrate opposite to the first base substrate, a plurality of lens electrodes that extend in a lens axis and is parallel with each other, and a second alignment layer disposed on the plurality of lens electrodes, the second alignment layer including a second alignment direction substantially perpendicular to the first alignment direction. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first and second alignment layers.

Abstract: In an array substrate, a first pixel is arranged at one end of an active area, and a second pixel is arranged adjacent to the first pixel more inside of the active area than the first pixel. A common electrode extends to the first and second pixels, and an insulating layer is formed on the common electrode. First and second pixel electrodes are formed on the insulating layer in the first and second pixels. The pixel electrodes include electrode portions forming slits facing the common electrode. A second substrate includes a shield layer arranged outside the active area. The first pixel electrode is formed more widely than the second pixel electrode, and extends to outside of the active area. The first pixel electrode includes an extending portion extending to outside of the active area and facing the shield layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photoalignment layer, for example, a liquid crystal alignment layer, which is able to realize the wide viewing angle and contrast ratio characteristics of a photopolymerizable alignment layer, and to facilitate interaction with the liquid crystal layer, thereby improving alignment stability and reducing image sticking, and a liquid crystal cell including the same. The liquid crystal alignment layer includes a photo-alignment layer including a photo-alignment polymer having at least partially photo-aligned photoreactive groups; and a mesogen layer including a cured product of a reactive mesogen that is liquid crystal-aligned by the photo-aligned photoreactive group, in which the photo-alignment polymer include a norbornene-based polymer having a particular structure.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an array substrate, a liquid crystal display apparatus and an alignment rubbing method. The array substrate comprises a gate line, a data line, and a pixel unit defined by the gate line and the data line intersecting each other, as well as an alignment film formed on the array substrate. The pixel unit each comprises a thin film transistor, a first electrode, and a second electrode provided with slits; and a first non-zero preset angle is present between a slit-direction of the second electrode and a data-line-direction, a second non-zero preset angle is present between a rubbing direction of the alignment film and the slit-direction of the second electrode, and an angle between the rubbing direction of the alignment film and the data-line-direction is greater than the second non-zero preset angle.

Abstract: To provide a three-dimensional image display apparatus having patterned retarder 303 that is excellent in adhesion between transparent support substrate 301 and alignment film 302. A mixture containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a peeling preventive agent is prepared. Here, the peeling preventive agent has as a polar group any one of a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, a phosphate group, a sulfonate group, an amino group, a mercapto group and an isocyanate group, and also has a polymerizable group. Then, an alignment layer is arranged on a transparent support substrate, and subjected to patterned treatment, and the mixture is coated, and a coated surface is dried and cured to form a patterned retarder, and thus a three-dimensional image display apparatus having excellent reliability, such as adhesion, is obtained.

Abstract: An LCD device includes first and second substrates, an alignment layer formed over at least one of the substrates, and a liquid crystal layer formed between the substrates. The alignment layer is formed of a mixture of rubbing alignment and UV alignment materials. A method of fabricating the LCD device includes preparing first and second substrates; coating an alignment layer over at least one of the substrates; performing a rubbing process on the substrate coated with the alignment layer; and irradiating polarized UV rays onto the substrate coated with the alignment layer, wherein the alignment layer is formed of a mixture of rubbing alignment a UV alignment materials. The rubbing process obtains high anchoring energy is obtained, thereby preventing afterimages. Also, the process of irradiating the polarized UV rays eliminates the problem of light leakage.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes providing an LCD panel that includes a photopolymerizable compound in its liquid crystal layer; and forming alignment sustaining layers by polymerizing the photopolymerizable compound in the liquid crystal layer of the LCD panel with the liquid crystal layer irradiated with light and supplied with a voltage simultaneously. The forming the alignment sustaining layers includes the steps of: i) applying a predetermined voltage between a pixel electrode and a counter electrode while a switching element is in ON state; and ii) changing the voltage at a storage capacitor counter electrode into a voltage, of which the polarity is opposite to a voltage at the storage capacitor counter electrode in the step i), after the switching element in ON state has been turned OFF.

Abstract: A display device in which low power consumption is realized without lowering an aperture ratio is provided. A liquid crystal capacitive element Clc is sandwiched between a pixel electrode 20 and an opposite electrode 80. The pixel electrode 20, one end of a first switch circuit 22, one end of a second switch circuit 23 and a first terminal of a second transistor T2 form an internal node N1. The other terminals of the first switch circuit 22 and the second switch circuit 23 are connected to a source line SL. The second switch circuit 23 is a series circuit composed of a first transistor T1 and a diode D1. A control terminal of the first transistor T1, a second terminal of the second transistor T2 and one end of a boost capacitive element Cbst form an output node N2. The other end of the boost capacitive element Cbst and the control terminal of the second transistor T2 are connected to a boost line BST and a reference line REF, respectively.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and an LCD device. The LCD panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate arranged opposing to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein alignment film layers are provided on the surfaces of the first and second substrates facing the liquid crystal layer, and concave-convex microstructures are formed on the surfaces of the alignment film layers.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a parallax barrier and a display device. The parallax barrier comprises: first and second substrates; liquid crystal, filled between the two substrates; a plurality of strip-like electrode units, disposed parallel to each other and at an interval on a side of the first substrate close to the liquid crystal; a first alignment layer, disposed above the strip-like electrode units; a second alignment layer, disposed on a surface of the second substrate opposed to the first substrate, wherein, a aligning direction of the first alignment layer is perpendicular to an extending direction of the strip-like electrode units, and aligning directions of the first and second alignment layer are opposite, wherein, after the strip-like electrode units are energized, the liquid crystal directly above the strip-like electrode units are rotated by an angle ranged from 85° to 95° in a plane parallel to the substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal including: a first substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate and including a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode disposed in one pixel area; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, wherein an area of a region occupied by the first subpixel electrode is less than an area of a region occupied by the second subpixel electrode. Each of the first and second subpixels has a cross-shaped stem and minute branches extending from it to improve side visibility quality and gray scale uniformity.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of reducing the probability of image sticking. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates. At least one of the substrates includes an alignment film and a polymer layer on the alignment film. The polymer layer includes monomer units derived from at least two species of polymerizable monomers. The at least two species of polymerizable monomers include at least two species of monomers selected from the group consisting of: specific polyfunctional monomers and specific monofunctional monomers.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate, a counter-substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a columnar spacer. The array substrate includes a wiring including projection portion which form a dot pattern with light-blocking properties, and a first horizontal alignment film. The counter-substrate includes a second horizontal alignment film. The columnar spacer is disposed between the array substrate and the counter-substrate and is located within the dot pattern.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a bank on a first substrate and surrounding an image display area, a first alignment film on the first substrate, a second alignment film on a second substrate, and a sealing member to seal the liquid crystal material between the first and the second alignment films. The bank has a shape in which a slope of an inside surface standing from an inner peripheral lower end on a side of the image display area is steeper than a slope of an outside surface standing from an outer peripheral lower end on an opposite side to the image display area. The first alignment film contacts the inside surface of the bank and is provided in the image display area. The sealing member passes over the outside surface of the bank in a direction toward the inside surface and overlaps the bank.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first storage capacitance line and a second storage capacitance line, a gate line, a first source line and a second source line, a main pixel electrode which has a strip shape, a first sub-pixel electrode which is continuous with the main pixel electrode, a second sub-pixel electrode which is continuous with the main pixel electrode, and a first alignment film, a second substrate including second main common electrodes extending on both sides of the main pixel electrode, a second sub-common electrode which is continuous with the second main common electrodes, and a second alignment film, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A display substrate has first and second conductive layers separated from one another by an insulation layer. The first and second conductive layers are used to integrally form on the display substrate, pixel units in a relatively central display area of the substrate and integrated gate driving circuitry as well as associated wirings thereof in one or more peripheral areas. The first and second conductive layers are covered by a first protection layer made of a first electrically insulative material. A second and supplementing protection layer is provided on top of the first protection layer. The supplementing protection layer (buffer layer) is formed of a material different from that of the first protection layer so as to provide supplemental resistance against corrosive chemical agents and supplemental resistance against formation of cracks.

Abstract: An optical element having an alignment layer for an optical anisotropic body, in which the generation of damages in the alignment layer is effectively prevented by providing an optical element having an alignment layer for an optical anisotropic body, wherein a stress releasing layer is formed as an underlying layer for the alignment layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device according to embodiments of the invention includes a first alignment layer that is disposed on the first substrate and includes a second alignment layer that is disposed on the second substrate. The first alignment layer includes a first inorganic layer and a second inorganic layer which having a column-like structure with an orientation angle different from an orientation angle of the column-like structure of the first inorganic layer. The second alignment layer includes a third inorganic layer and a fourth inorganic layer which having a column-like structure with an orientation angle different from an orientation angle of the column-like structure of the third inorganic layer. The ratio of the thickness of the second inorganic layer to the thickness of the first inorganic layer is different from the ratio of the thickness of the fourth inorganic layer to the thickness of the third inorganic layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a device substrate that includes a pixel electrode, a counter substrate that is formed opposite the device substrate and that includes a counter electrode, a liquid crystal layer that is formed between the device substrate and the counter substrate, a first alignment layer that is formed on a side of the device substrate which is closer to the liquid crystal layer, and a second alignment layer that is formed on a side of the counter substrate which is closer to the liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrode is made of a material having a work function smaller than that of a material for the counter electrode. The first alignment layer has substantially the same density as that of the second alignment layer, and the thickness d1 of the first alignment layer is greater than the thickness d2 of the second alignment layer.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal molecules are oriented in a vertical direction to the first substrate and the second substrate by the first molecule orientation film and the second molecule orientation film, respectively, in a non-driving state. A structural pattern is formed so as to extend in a first direction parallel to a surface of the liquid crystal layer and so as to form, in a driving state, an electric field periodically changing in a second direction that is parallel to the liquid crystal layer and vertical to the first direction. The liquid crystal molecules substantially tilt in the first direction in the driving state.

Abstract: An alignment structure of a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a plurality of region defining strips disposed at intervals on the substrate, and organic alignment strips disposed between the region defining strips.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device in a lateral electric field mode includes: a metal wiring formed on a transparent substrate; an inorganic insulating film and an organic insulating film formed on the metal wiring; and a first transparent electrode and a second transparent electrode formed on the inorganic insulating film and the organic insulating film so that the first and the second transparent electrodes are opposite to each other through an interlayer insulating film. The film thickness of the organic insulating film on the metal wiring is made thicker than the film thickness of the organic insulating film inside a pixel display region including the contact hole, and a projecting portion of the organic insulating film is formed on the metal wiring. A pixel electrode formed of the first electrode or the second electrode is formed on an image display region including a slope portion of the projecting portion.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal display element, the liquid crystal display element including: a pair of alignment films provided on mutually facing sides of a pair of substrates; and a liquid crystal layer which is provided between the pair of alignment films and contains a liquid crystal molecule having a negative dielectric anisotropy, wherein at least one of the pair of alignment films contains a cross-linked compound obtained by crosslinking a polymer compound having a cross-linkable functional group as a side chain, the liquid crystal layer further contains a molecule which has a ring structure and a spacer linking the ring structure, and the liquid crystal molecule is given a pre-tilt by the cross-linked compound.

Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing films using sequential ion implantation, and films formed using same, are provided herein. A structure prepared using ion implantation may include a substrate; an embedded structure having pre-selected characteristics; and a film within or adjacent to the embedded structure and including ions having a perturbed arrangement arising from the presence of the embedded structure. The perturbed arrangement may include the ions being covalently bonded to each other, to the embedded structure, or to the substrate, whereas the ions instead may be free to diffuse through the substrate in the absence of the embedded structure. The embedded structure may inhibit or impede the ions from diffusing through the substrate, such that the ions instead covalently bond to each other, to the embedded structure, or to the substrate. The film may include, for example, diamond-like carbon, graphene, or SiC having a pre-selected phase.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal alignment agent that includes a polymer including polyamic acid including a repeating unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, polyimide including a repeating unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 2, or a combination thereof. In Chemical Formulae 1 and 2, X1, X2, Y1 and Y2 are the same as defined in the detailed description.

Abstract: A surface-stabilized in-plane switching (SS-IPS) liquid crystal (LCD) cell includes a pair of spaced substrates that include alignment layers disposed thereon. The alignment layers are treated to define a first director orientation. Disposed between the alignment layers is a liquid crystal material that contains polymer fibrils that are disposed upon each of the alignment layers. The polymer fibrils serve to maintain the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules in the first director orientation when no voltage is applied to the LCD cell via interdigitated electrodes disposed upon the alignment layers, thus improving the dynamic response of the SS-IPS LCD cell.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which a display failure is unlikely to occur even in the case of forming no alignment film. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a pair of substrates having substantially no alignment film; a liquid crystal layer which is sandwiched between the substrates and which contains a liquid crystal material; and a polymer layer which is formed on a surface of at least one of the substrates and which controls the alignment of molecules of a liquid crystal. The polymer layer is one formed by polymerizing at least one monomer contained in the liquid crystal layer. The monomer contains a compound represented by Chemical Formula (1).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel including pixels each having an active device, a pixel electrode, a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer arranged in a dot matrix array. The liquid crystal display panel has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has the active device, the pixel electrode, the common electrode and a first alignment film. The second substrate has a second alignment film. The first alignment film and the second alignment film are respectively a photo alignment film formed by irradiating a photo decomposition type insulating film with light. The second alignment film has a thickness of at least 10 nm and no greater 50 nm and is thinner than the first alignment film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal shutter that realizes a high speed response and that solves a problem in which light leakage cannot be alleviated is provided. An alignment film coated on substrate 5a adjacent to another liquid crystal device of substrates (5a) and (5b) of each of liquid crystal devices (2a, 2b) is horizontal alignment film (7a) and alignment film coated on the other substrate (5b) is vertical alignment film (7b). A alignment treatment is performed on the horizontal alignment film coated on substrate (5a) of liquid crystal device (2b) having a polarizer (3) in a direction parallel to a light transmission axis of analyzer (4) and an alignment treatment is performed on the horizontal alignment film coated on substrate (5a) of liquid crystal device (2a) having analyzer (4) in a direction parallel to the light transmission axis of polarizer (4). Liquid crystal materials (6) of liquid crystal devices (2a, 2b) have a positive dielectric anisotropy and have twisting directions that is the reverse of each other.

Abstract: A method of making a phase difference film includes: (a) providing a substrate having a first surface provided with a light-shielding layer and a second surface provided with an orientable layer; (b) providing a first linear polarized UV light to irradiate the orientable layer and providing a second linear polarized UV light to irradiate the orientable layer so as to form the orientable layer into an alignment layer having first and second regions that are photo-oriented in two different orientation directions, respectively; and (c) coating a liquid crystal material on the alignment layer and curing the liquid crystal material.

Abstract: There are provided a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display apparatus which have high display quality and in which thready defects generated in a display pixel are suppressed. In the liquid crystal display panel, at least one of a pair of substrates includes a photo-alignment film and an electrode, and a liquid crystal layer contains liquid crystal molecules whose elastic constant K1 concerning splay deformation and/or elastic constant K3 concerning bend deformation is 13 pN or more at 20° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for liquid crystal alignment, which includes: providing a substrate, the substrate being disposed with a liquid crystal layer; using a first radiation beam and a second radiation beam to radiate the substrate, the first radiation beam being for performing alignment on liquid crystal layer and the second beam being for adjusting substrate temperature. The method and device for liquid crystal alignment of the present invention can rapidly adjust environment temperature during liquid crystal alignment and achieve optimization of reaction speed and uniformity through temperature control during polymerization. The present invention is simple in structure, easy to operate and low cost.

Abstract: The present invention provides to an in-plane-switching (IPS) mode liquid crystal panel, which comprises: a first substrate, a second substrate, a coplanar transparent electrode layer and a liquid crystal layer. The first and second substrates have a first alignment film and a second alignment film, respectively. The coplanar transparent electrode layer is disposed onto the second alignment film. The liquid crystal layer is disposed in a space between the first alignment film of the first substrate and the coplanar transparent electrode layer of the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer comprises dual-frequency liquid crystal molecules and dual-frequency reactive mesogens/monomers. The liquid crystal panel of the present invention can overcome the problems of pollution and static electricity generated from the rubbing alignment in the in-plane-switching (IPS) mode, so as to simplify the manufacturing process and provide the advantages of high contrast, high response speed and wide viewing angle.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first gate line, a second gate line, a common line, a first electrode, an insulation film, and a second electrode. The common line includes a first edge, which has a non-linear shape and is formed at a first distance from the first gate line, and a second edge, which is formed at a second distance, which is shorter than the first distance, from the second gate line. The first electrode is disposed between the first gate line and the second gate line and put in contact with the common line. The insulation film is disposed above the first electrode. The second electrode is disposed above the insulation film, opposed to the first electrode, extending immediately above the first edge of the common line, and having a slit formed therein.

Abstract: The present invention provides to a liquid crystal panel, which comprises: a first substrate, a second substrate, a coplanar transparent electrode layer and a liquid crystal layer. The first and second substrates have a first and second alignment films, respectively. The coplanar transparent electrode layer is disposed onto the second alignment film. The liquid crystal layer is disposed in a space between the first alignment film of the first substrate and the coplanar transparent electrode layer of the second substrate. The liquid crystal film comprises positive liquid crystal molecules and reactive mesogens (RMs). The liquid crystal panel of the present invention can overcome the problems of pollution and static electricity generated from the rubbing alignment in the IPS mode. In comparison with the PSVA mode, the present invention can simplify the manufacturing process and provide the advantages of high contrast, high response speed and wide viewing angle.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing alignment films for a liquid crystal display panel, characterized in that the method includes steps of: dripping liquid crystal mixture, which comprises liquid crystal molecules and liquid crystal alignment monomers, on a first substrate; gluing the first substrate and a second substrate together, irradiating the first substrate and the second substrate by a first UV ray and providing an electric field between the first substrate and the second substrate at the same time; and irradiating the first substrate and the second substrate by a second UV ray, and curing the first substrate and the second substrate at the same time to form the alignment films.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an illuminator and a liquid crystal panel for performing displaying by using light which is emitted from the illuminator. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided therebetween. The liquid crystal layer is formed of a liquid crystal material which contains molecules having at least one of a carbon-carbon triple bond and a polycyclic group. The illuminator includes a light source causing primary generation of at least blue light, among other light which is used for displaying.

Abstract: A photoalignment material includes an alignment polymer, a photoalignment additive including a compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 and an organic solvent. In Chemical Formula 1, R1 represents a cyclic compound. A and B independently represent a single bond or —(CnH2n)—. “n” represents an integer in a range of 1 to 12. Each —CH2— of A and/or B may be replaced with R3 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, and each —CH2— of A and/or B may be replaced with —O—. R4 represents In Chemical Formula 1, each hydrogen atom excluding hydrogen atoms of R4 may be replaced with chlorine (Cl) or fluorine (F).

Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) pixel, a method for providing an output thereof and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The LC pixel includes: a first electrode (5) having comb-like structures; an alignment layer (6) adjacent to the first electrode (5), wherein the alignment layer (6) is patterned with local areas that are different from the remaining area of the alignment layer (6) and wherein the local areas are configured to produce local defects in initial orientation in an LC layer (1) upon application of a control voltage; and the LC layer (1), configured to asymmetrically diffract light passing through the LC layer (1) based on configuration of the comb-like structures and the alignment layer (6).

Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystalline media (LC media) comprising self-aligning additives which effect homeotropic (vertical) alignment of the LC media at a surface or the cell walls of a liquid-crystal display (LC display). The invention therefore also encompasses LC displays having homeotropic alignment of the liquid-crystalline medium (LC medium) without conventional imide alignment layers. The LC media are optionally supplemented by a polymerisable or polymerised component, which serves for stabilisation of the alignment, for adjustment of the tilt angle and/or as passivation layer.