Abstract: A source line is provided on a layer above a substrate, and as a whole, extends in a first direction while meandering along the main surface of the substrate. An alignment film is provided on a layer above the source line, and specifies the alignment direction of a liquid crystal. A first protruding section along the source line is formed on the surface of the alignment film. In a cross-section that is parallel to the first direction and perpendicular to the substrate, and that passes through the source line, the inclination of an inclined end face on one side of the first protruding section in the first direction is steeper than the inclination of each inclined end face on the other side of the protruding section.

Abstract: This liquid crystal display device (100) includes: a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer (3); a pixel electrode (11) and a counter electrode (21) arranged on first and second substrates (1, 2), respectively, to front on the liquid crystal layer; and first and second alignment films (12, 22). Each pixel region (10) includes first, second, third and fourth liquid crystal domains (A, B, C, D) in which liquid crystal molecules (3a) are tilted in first, second, third and fourth predetermined directions, respectively, which are defined so that an angle formed between any two of them is approximately equal to an integral multiple of 90 degrees. The first liquid crystal domain is located close to at least a part of edges of the pixel electrode, which includes a first edge portion (EG1) where an azimuthal direction (e1) perpendicular to the part and pointing toward the inside of the pixel electrode defines an angle greater than 90 degrees to the first direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display, including a lower panel electrode including at least one lower panel unit electrode, an upper panel electrode including at least one upper panel unit electrode facing the at least one lower panel unit electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower panel electrode and the upper panel electrode, wherein the lower panel unit electrode includes a stem part forming borders between a plurality of sub-regions; a center pattern including a plurality of straight line sides respectively disposed at the plurality of sub-regions, and a plurality of fine branch parts extending out from the center pattern, the stem part includes a horizontal stem part and a vertical stem part, and angles that the horizontal stem part and the vertical stem part form with the respective straight line sides of the center pattern are different from each other.

Abstract: An external-cavity tunable laser with a flexible wavelength grid tuning function comprises a resonant cavity, collimating lenses, an optical isolator, and an output optical fiber. The resonant cavity comprises a semiconductor gain chip, a beam expander collimating lens, a combined liquid crystal tunable filter assembly, and a reflecting mirror. A current injected to the semiconductor gain chip is converted to broadband spontaneously radiating photons through electrical-to-optical conversion, and the photons are spread along a waveguide toward two sides. A part of photons with special frequencies go back and forth multiple times in the resonant cavity to form a laser after a threshold condition is met. The laser is collimated by the collimating lens, passes through the optical isolator, is coupled by the collimating lens, and enters the output optical fiber.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate, a storage electrode line which is close to edges of the pixel electrode and spaced apart from the pixel electrode, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, where the common electrode includes a first cutout having a cross shape, and the pixel electrode includes a second cutout which is close to at least one of the edges of the pixel electrode and disposed along the edge.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal panel comprises a first substrate (1), a second substrate (2) and a liquid crystal layer (3) sandwiched between the first substrate (1) and the second substrate (1), wherein protrusions (4) are respectively disposed on a side of the first substrate (1) adjacent to the liquid crystal layer (3) and a side of the second substrate (2) adjacent to the liquid crystal layer (3).

Abstract: The present invention discloses an alignment substrate that includes a base substrate and an alignment layer arranged on the base substrate. A plurality of unit pixels is defined in the base substrate. The alignment layer includes at least two sub-alignment portions dividing the unit pixel into at least two domains. Each sub-alignment portion is arranged in a different domain of the at least two domains and is aligned to have a different pretilt direction from the other sub-alignment portions.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a first substrate includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a source line extending in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction, a sub-pixel electrode extending in the first direction, and a pixel electrode having “n” main pixel electrodes electrically connected with the sub-pixel electrode and extending in the second direction (“n” is positive integer). A second substrate includes a main common electrode extending in the second direction in parallel with the “n” main pixel electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first and second substrates and including liquid crystal molecules. The dielectric constant anisotropy ?? of the liquid crystal molecules satisfies a following relational expression with respect to a definition depending on an inter-electrode distance between the main pixel electrode and the main common electrode in the first direction. ????0.014×(definition)+(19.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which is excellent in uniformity of visual angles even when divided alignment regions are distorted due to an external pressure such as pressing pressure. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device comprising: a pair of substrates; and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, wherein, as viewed in a plan view of a main surface of one of the substrates, the liquid crystal display device has an alignment division pattern in which each pixel is divided into four or more alignment regions, and each set of a plurality of pixels constitutes one unit, and each of the units of the alignment division pattern comprises, in at least one pixel, an alignment region whose alignment direction is different from alignment directions of alignment regions which are located at same vertical and horizontal positions in the other pixels.

Abstract: A light modulation layer of a display panel in the present invention includes shape-anisotropic members and liquid crystal molecules. The projected area of the shape-anisotropic members on a first substrate and a second substrate is changed by altering the voltage applied to the light modulation layer, which changes the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules. According to the present invention, it is possible to increase light use efficiency with a simple configuration and to control light/dark switching in both directions at a high switching speed. The present invention is applicable to a television.

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: A liquid crystal display device comprising: a liquid crystal cell including a quadrilateral display surface and a liquid crystal layer enclosed between glass substrates and controlling light entering from a second surface side and exiting to a first surface side; a first polarizing plate including a polarizer having an absorption axis and adhered to the first surface side with an adhesive layer; and a second polarizing plate including a polarizer having an absorption axis and adhered to the second surface side with an adhesive layer such that one of the polarizing plates including the polarizer with a larger maximum dimension in an absorption axis direction on the display surface is adhered to the glass substrate with an adhesive layer having higher adhesion strength to the glass substrate than the adhesive layer of other polarizing plates including the polarizer with a smaller maximum dimension in the absorption axis direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element comprises a first and a second substrates, a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer, and a first and a second polarizers arranged to cross approximately their absorption axes and an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules when no voltage is applied at almost 45 degrees. At least one of the electrodes comprises a polyline extending to an extending direction as a whole and having no straight line in parallel to the extending direction along an electrode edge, and the polyline is formed along an edge of at least one of the first and the second electrodes where the alignment directions when a voltage is applied and when no voltage is applied are opposite to each other if the polyline is a straight line along the extending direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a display apparatus using the same. The LCD panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and quarter wave (?/4) pattern retarder films. The liquid crystal layer is formed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate comprises a second electrode, wherein the second electrode comprises main pixel regions and sub-pixel regions. The ?/4 pattern retarder films are disposed between the first substrate and a first polarizer, and between the second substrate and a second polarizer, respectively. The present invention can improve the color shift problem and the transmittance of the LCD panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus includes an electrode and a slit formation region provided in the electrode and extending in a direction of extension of a boundary line, a first alignment region and a third alignment region are formed such that liquid crystal molecules are aligned toward a first director orientation, a second alignment region and a fourth alignment region are formed such that liquid crystal molecules are aligned toward a second director orientation greater in an angle of orientation than the first director orientation, an angle of orientation of a first slit orientation is not greater than an angle of orientation of the first director orientation, and an angle of orientation of a second slit orientation is not smaller than an angle of orientation of the second director orientation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive monomer of which hydrogen atoms of benzene ring of a hard core are substituted by fluorine atoms to increase the electronegativity of the hard core, so that the curing voltage of the curing process is reduced. The photosensitive monomer of the present invention not only reduces the curing voltage and curing time of the curing process of liquid crystal panels, but also increases the pretilt angle of liquid crystal molecules to reduce the response time of a liquid crystal display, so that image sticking and MURA phenomenon are reduced.

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: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a first substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate, a first alignment layer disposed on the first substrate and the pixel electrode, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, a second alignment layer disposed on the second substrate and the common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, in which the common electrode has a first opening having a cross shape, an edge of the first opening protrudes beyond an edge of the pixel electrode, and the pixel electrode includes a second opening disposed adjacently to at least one of the edges of the pixel electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a display apparatus using the same. In the LCD panel, a second electrode of the second substrate comprises a trunk portion and a plurality of branch portion, and each of the pixels comprises a main pixel region and a sub-pixel region, and an included angle between the trunk portion and the branch portions is of 45 degrees in the main pixel region, and in each of the sub-pixel regions, a predetermined angle between the trunk portion and the branch portions is not equal to 45 degrees. The ?/2 pattern retarder film of the LCD panel comprises ?/2 retarder rows and zero wave retarder rows.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate, a plurality of color filters disposed on the substrate, a light blocking member disposed between the plurality of color filters and on the thin film transistor, and a pixel electrode disposed on at least one of the plurality of color filters. The pixel electrode comprises a planar shape electrode and a plurality of minute branches extending from the planar shape electrode. The at least one of the plurality of color filters or the light blocking member comprises a step forming portion overlapped by the planar shape electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical compensation film group and a method for reducing light leakage of a vertical alignment LCD using the same. For the vertical alignment LCD at a wavelength of 550 nm, an LC?nd in the range of [305.8 nm, 324.3 nm], and a pretilt angle in the range of [85°, 90°), a compensation value Ro of an in-plane optical path difference of the biaxial compensation film is in the range of 48 nm?Ro?84 nm, and a compensation value Rth of an out-of-plane optical path difference of the biaxial compensation film is in the range of 160 nm?Rth?280 nm, and a TAC compensation film having a compensation value Rth is in the range of Y1?Rth?Y2. The present invention can effectively improve the serious light leakage caused by the conventional compensation structure with a single biaxial compensation film, the contrast and sharpness at the large viewing angles, and the costs.

Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) display device includes a first substrate having a pixel unit and a second substrate. The pixel unit has a pixel electrode unit including a primary electrode region. A LC layer with chiral dopants is disposed between the first and second substrates. The pixel unit has a first boundary along a horizontal direction of an upper portion of the pixel unit. The first boundary has a first central point. The primary electrode region has a first side along the horizontal direction of an upper portion of the primary electrode region. The first side has a second central point left to the first central point. The primary electrode region has a second side located on the left to the second central point, and a first angle between the first and second sides is larger than 90 degrees or equal to 90 degrees.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal panel, liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method of array substrate thereof. The liquid crystal panel comprises: a color filter substrate and an array substrate, disposed with spacing, surface of array substrate facing color filter substrate being disposed with a plurality of pixel units, each of pixel units comprising a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode and a VIA connecting thin film transistor and pixel electrode; at least an auxiliary hole formed by same EPD etching as VIA being disposed between pixel units or in each pixel unit. The present invention can amplify the detection voltage, which enables monitoring VIA forming process more precisely and reliably to ensure the VIA manufacture quality.

Abstract: An vertical alignment type liquid crystal display element (10) which controls an orientation of liquid crystal molecules (52) in a liquid crystal layer (50) by use of a transverse electric field so as to carry out display. A CF-side first insulating layer (42a) and a CF-side second insulting layer (42b) which have respective different dielectric constants are provided, within a pixel in a planar view, on or above a CF substrate (24) so that a first electric field region (60) and a second electric field region (62) which differ in shapes of equipotential lines are formed in the pixel due to generation of a transverse electric field.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display may include a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer comprising liquid crystal molecules that are interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the insulating layer, a third electrode disposed on the second substrate, and an alignment layer disposed on any one of the second electrode and the third electrode. The second electrode comprises a fine slit structure, and at least one of the liquid crystal layer and the alignment layer comprises a sub-alignment substance.

Abstract: A vertical alignment liquid crystal panel based on a transverse electric field drive system is provided which shows few changes in color when looked squarely at. A liquid crystal panel (2) is a vertical alignment liquid crystal panel based on a transverse electric field drive system, which carries out a display by driving, with a transverse electric field, a liquid crystal layer (50) sandwiched between substrates (10, 20), and the substrate (10) is provided with an insulating layer (25) having at least two regions that are different in relative permittivity from each other in a pixel (6) composed of a red subpixel (6R), a green subpixel (6G), and a blue subpixel (6B). Those regions of the insulating layer (25) which correspond to the blue, green, and red subpixel (6B, 6G, 6R) in the liquid crystal panel (2) have relative permittivities of 3, 3 to 7, and 4 to 7, respectively.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: first and second substrates placed opposite each other; first and second electrodes each provided on one face of the first and second electrodes extending in first and second directions intersecting with each other; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the one face of the first substrate and the one face of the second substrate. A pixel is formed in a region where the first and second electrodes intersect, and a pixel edge of the pixel has a line segment which is oblique relative to the first direction. The first and second substrates are respectively subject to alignment treatment, and the liquid crystal layer is a substantial vertical alignment having a twisted structure, and an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules at a substantial center in a layer thickness direction and the oblique line segment are not orthogonal.

Abstract: A phase modulator for the modulation of the phase of circular polarised light which interacts with the phase modulator. The phase modulator has a first and a second substrate, an electrode arrangement and a liquid crystal layer with liquid crystal molecules. The first substrate is disposed adjacent to the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the two substrates. The first substrate has a first surface, and the second substrate has a second surface. The liquid crystal molecules situated next to the first surface are oriented substantially parallel to the first surface. The liquid crystal molecules situated next to the second surface are oriented substantially perpendicular to the second surface. An in-plane component of the liquid crystal molecule orientation can be set within an angular range of about 180°, e.g. between ?90° and +90° related to a specifiable central orientation.

Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device that suppresses occurrence of drop marks during production without degrading various properties, such as dielectric anisotropy, viscosity, nematic phase upper limit temperature, rotational viscosity (?1), and ghosting property, and a method for producing the liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display device 10 of the present invention includes a liquid crystal composition layer 13 sandwiched between a first substrate 11 and a second substrate 12 and vertical alignment films 16 and 17 that contain a polymer of a polymerizable compound having a polyimide skeleton as a main chain and a crosslinkable functional group as a side chain. The liquid crystal composition constituting the liquid crystal composition layer 13 contains compounds represented by general formulae (I) and (II).

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can suppress a display defect due to collapse of liquid crystal alignment. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display element including a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer hermetically interposed between the pair of substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a p-type liquid crystal material that is homeotropically aligned with respect to surfaces of the pair of substrates when no voltage is applied; one of the pair of substrates comprises a comb-shaped electrode and a first alignment layer configured to control alignment of the p-type liquid crystal material; the other of the pair of substrates comprises a second alignment layer configured to control alignment of the p-type liquid crystal material; and the first alignment layer has an anchoring energy of not greater than 1.5×10?4 J/m2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device which have improved viewing angle characteristics due to having a multi-domain structure and the like and can sufficiently improve transmittance. The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel, including a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates, the first substrate and/or the second substrate including a vertical alignment film on the liquid crystal layer side to align liquid crystal molecules, at a voltage lower than a threshold voltage, in the vertical direction to main surfaces of the substrates, the first substrate and/or the second substrate including a common electrode, the common electrode including a grid-shaped first common electrode, the first substrate including a pixel electrode, and the pixel electrode being branched.

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display, which includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, and a plurality of pixels respectively disposed at positions where the scan lines and the data lines cross each other. Each of the pixels includes a main pixel and a sub-pixel. The main pixel includes a main thin film transistor. The sub-pixel includes a sub-thin film transistor. A channel width-to-length ratio of the main thin film transistor is different from a channel width-to-length ratio of the sub-thin film transistor. The liquid crystal display of the present invention implements the eight-domain division by adopting difference channel width-to-length ratios of the main pixel and the sub-pixel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can achieve sufficient front contrast ratio and front white brightness at the same time. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a front polarizing plate, a liquid crystal cell, a back polarizing plate, and an optical element having polarization characteristics, which are arranged in the stated order, wherein the back polarizing plate has a lower contrast than the front polarizing plate, and there is substantially no air layer between the back polarizing plate and the optical element having polarization characteristics.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display are disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate, disposed opposite to each other to form a cell, as well as a liquid crystal layer between the two substrates. On the first substrate, there is formed with a first common electrode and a pixel electrode, arranged at an interval; on the second substrate, there is formed with a set of layers, the set of layers comprising: a second common electrode, and a dielectric layer covering one side of the second common electrode facing the first substrate; and the structure of the set of layers is different at a position directly opposite to the first common electrode from that at a position directly opposite to the pixel electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device comprises an active matrix substrate (6) and a counter-substrate (7) provided with homeotropic alignment surfaces (11). A layer of nematic liquid crystal material is provided between the alignment surfaces (11) so as to form a vertically aligned nematic device. The substrates (6, 7) carry a pixel electrode arrangement and a counter-electrode arrangement which define a plurality of pixel regions. Each of least some of these regions has a pixel electrode (13), which may be split into two halves, and a counter-electrode (8) which are arranged to apply an electric field for controlling the liquid crystal director (12) out-of-plane tilt angle. A further electrode (14), for example in the form of a plurality of parallel fingers, cooperates with at least one of the other electrodes (8, 13) to apply a second electric field for controlling the director in-plane azimuth angle. Such a device may be used, for example, as a switchable public/private display.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a pixel electrode on the first substrate; a second substrate which faces the first substrate; a common electrode on the second substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a cross-shaped organic layer protrusion on the first substrate or the second substrate and overlapping the pixel electrode. The edge of the organic layer protrusion is protruded from the edge of the pixel electrode.

Abstract: In an aspect, an liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and including liquid crystals, a first alignment polymer, and a second alignment polymer is provided, In an aspect, the first alignment polymer is formed by radiating electromagnetic radiation on a first alignment aid photoreactive in a first wavelength region, the second alignment polymer is formed by radiating electromagnetic radiation on a second alignment aid photoreactive in a second wavelength region, and the first wavelength region and the second wavelength region are different from each other.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a device includes a first substrate including a gate line, a source line which extends to intersect with the gate line, a pixel electrode which includes a primary pixel electrode extending substantially parallel to the source line, and a switching element located at the intersection of the gate line and the source line, a second substrate includes a common electrode which extends substantially parallel to the primary pixel electrode on both sides across the primary pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules held between the first and second substrates. The switching element includes a drain line which is electrically connected to the pixel electrode and which is located to overlap the gate line.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate including a pixel electrode, a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes a storage capacitive line. The liquid crystal display device further includes a domain forming member that is formed over a first region corresponding to the storage capacitive line and a second region adjacent to the first region. The domain forming member is formed with irregular parts including a first irregular part having an enlarged width, a second irregular part having a reduced width, and an external irregular part, which is closest to the first region of the irregular parts formed in the second region and has an enlarged width.

Abstract: The invention provides a vertical alignment liquid crystal panel, which includes a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate, and a liquid crystal layer that includes negative liquid crystal containing liquid crystal molecules having a pre-tilt angle of 0°-7°, chiral agent, and a photo- or heat-polymerizable polymer. The first glass substrate includes a liquid crystal panel driving circuit, which includes a gate driver, a source driver, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of data lines. The gate lines and the data lines define a plurality of pixel units, each of which includes a thin-film transistor, a common electrode, and a pixel electrode. The source driver applies a driving voltage of 0-6V via the thin-film transistor to the pixel electrode. The present invention improves elastic energy between the liquid crystal molecules and thus avoids image sticking caused by long term displaying of the same image at the same location.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device producing less image sticking. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention comprises: a pair of substrates; and a liquid crystal layer between the substrates, wherein at least one of the substrates comprises an alignment film and a photopolymer film on the alignment film, the photopolymer film comprises polymers constituted by a photopolymerizable monomer, the photopolymerizable monomer includes two or more polymerizable functional groups, the polymerizable functional groups are bonded to each other through two or more aromatic rings, the aromatic rings include at least one naphthalene ring, and a bond between the naphthalene ring and another aromatic ring has a rotational degree of freedom.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal composition for a polymer stabilized vertical alignment liquid crystal display (PS-VA LCD) and a liquid crystal display panel thereof; the liquid crystal composition comprises at least one type of negative liquid crystal material, a type of stabilizer and one or more type of reactive monomers; the structural formula of the reactive monomer consists of one benzene ring, two benzene rings or one naphthalene ring, the structure of two benzene rings is formed by connecting the two benzene rings directly or indirectly with a group, at least one polymerizable group is connected directly to the benzene ring and naphthalene ring, and at least one of polymerizable groups is an acrylate group. Reaction rate of the reactive monomer and uniformity of polymer bumps are improved by selecting polymerizable groups of the reactive monomer and controlling the content thereof to effectively solve quality issues of panels.

Abstract: An O plate is included which includes a phase difference compensating layer which is an assembly of columns obtained by oblique deposition of an anisotropic refractive index medium with respect to a substrate and has negative biaxial refractive index anisotropy. In the O plate, a front surface phase difference value of the O plate in the normal direction is 5-15 nm, and a ratio of Re(?30)/Re(30) is 2.5-5.5.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymerizable monomer, a liquid crystal composition containing the polymerizable monomer and a vertical alignment liquid crystal panel. The polymerizable monomer which the present invention provides may generate free radicals more easily under the UV exposure, so as to solve the RM residue due to the improvement of the curing ability of the RM and thus improve the image sticking issue of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: In a character type vertical alignment type liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates opposing each other, a first electrode layer including a plurality of first electrodes provided at an inner side of the first substrate, a second electrode layer including a plurality of second electrodes provided at an inner side of the second substrate, and a vertical alignment mode liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second substrates, a wall structure is provided between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first and a second substrate placed opposite each other, a first electrode provided on the first substrate extending in a first direction, a second electrode provided on the second substrate extending in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction, and a vertically-aligned liquid crystal layer provided between the two substrates. A pixel is defined where the two electrodes intersect, and alignment treatment is performed to the first or second substrate in a direction parallel to the first direction. The first electrode has a linear shape in which electrode edges on either side extend in the first direction, and the second electrode is of a polygonal line shape in which an electrode edge of one side includes a line segment which obliquely crosses the first direction, and the pixel is demarcated by pixel edges including obliquely crossing line segments.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate; and a pixel electrode including a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode formed at a distance from each other on the first substrate, the first sub-pixel electrode includes stem portions and a plurality of branch portions extended from the stem portions, and the second sub-pixel electrode surrounds the first sub-pixel electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first insulating substrate. A pixel electrode is formed on a top surface of the first insulating substrate. The pixel electrode has a first opening pattern at each pixel area. The pixel electrode is substantially rectangular in shape with first and second long sides, and first and second short sides. The pixel electrode is divided into an upper region defined by the first and second long sides and first short side, and a lower region defined by the first and second long sides, and second short side. A common electrode is formed on a bottom surface of a second insulating substrate, and has a second opening pattern at each pixel area. The first and second opening patterns each have a plurality of openings, the openings of the first opening pattern and the second opening pattern being alternately arranged parallel to each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a first substrate; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate; a first alignment layer disposed on the first substrate and the pixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a common electrode disposed on the second substrate; a second alignment layer disposed on the second substrate and the common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the common electrode has a plurality of cutouts having a cross shape, and when viewing the first substrate and the second substrate upward, the edge of the cutout is protruded from the edge of the pixel electrode.

Abstract: To increase production efficiency while retaining the display quality of a liquid crystal display apparatus. The apparatus comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, a first electrode on the first substrate extending in a first direction, a second electrode on the second substrate extending in a second direction which intersects to the first direction, a liquid crystal layer provided between the two substrates. A pixel is configured where the two electrodes intersect and an orientation process is performed perpendicular to the second direction on one of the substrates. The electrode edge shape of the second electrode includes lines that are obliquely crossed relative to the direction of orientation process and periodically bend back. The pixel edges of the pixel are demarcated including the lines obliquely crossed, and all change points where the lines of the electrode edge of the second electrode interconnects are disposed to superimpose with the first electrode.