Abstract: A thin film capacitor is characterized by forming a lower electrode, coating a composition onto the lower electrode without applying an annealing process having a temperature of greater than 300° C., drying at a predetermined temperature within a range from ambient temperature to 500° C., and calcining at a predetermined temperature within a range of 500 to 800° C. and higher than a drying temperature. The process from coating to calcining is performed the process from coating to calcining once or at least twice, or the process from coating to drying is performed at least twice, and then calcining is performed once. The thickness of the dielectric thin film formed after the first calcining is 20 to 600 nm. The ratio of the thickness of the lower electrode and the thickness of the dielectric thin film formed after the initial calcining step (thickness of lower electrode/thickness of the dielectric thin film) is preferably in the range 0.10 to 15.0.

Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes a laminate section in which p-type layer 5 and n-type layer 7 are laminated such that they sandwich active layer 6. A part of light emitted from active layer 6 exits from a first surface of the laminate section. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a reflection layer that is located on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the laminate section and that reflects light that is emitted from active layer 6 and that enters from the second surface in the direction of the active layer side. The reflection layer includes metal layer 1 and transparent electrode films 2 to 4 that are transparent to a wave length of light that enters from active layer 6 and that have conductivity. The refractive index of transparent conduction film 3 is lower than that of each of transparent conduction films 2 and 4 and p-type layer 5. The absorption coefficient of transparent conduction film 3 is smaller than that of each of transparent conduction films 2 and 4.

Abstract: A viewing system has a parallax separation device placed in front of a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid display panel can be used to display a composite image that has many display segments, with each segment having two or more elongated image sections of different images. Each image section may occupy one or more columns of color pixels. The parallax separation device has a plurality of parallax separation elements, each aligned with a display segment for separating the different image sections as seen in a viewer's eyes. The parallax separation device has a barrier axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the elongated image sections. The color sub-pixels in each pixel are arranged along a direction parallel to the barrier axis. A tracking device and a processor are used to determine the locations of image sections under the parallax separation elements based on positions of a viewer.

Abstract: Compounds including at least one mesogenic substructure and at least one long flexible segment and methods of synthesizing the same are disclosed. Formulations which include various embodiments of the mesogen-containing compounds and their use in articles of manufacture and ophthalmic devices are also disclosed.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display utilizing a vertically aligned state of liquid crystal molecules when no voltage is applied and to a method of manufacturing the same. Objectives include providing a liquid crystal display and a method of manufacturing the same in which the existing step for forming vertical alignment films can be omitted to achieve a cost reduction. The liquid crystal display includes a monofunctional monomer having a structure expressed by X—R (where X represents an acrylate group or a methacrylate group, and R represents an organic group having a steroid skeleton). A liquid crystal material is sandwiched between substrates, which are then irradiated with ultraviolet rays to cure the monofunctional monomer, thereby forming a polymer film at an interface of a substrate. The monofunctional monomer has a hydrophobic skeleton such as an alkyl chain and a photoreactive group on one side of the skeleton.

Abstract: A display device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display device includes a display panel displaying an image and a bottom chassis including a bottom portion where the display panel is mounted and a plurality of side walls connected with the bottom portion and facing a side surface of the display panel. At least two of the side walls include a base side wall and a reinforcing side wall integrally formed with the base side wall by a connection portion. The connection portion and the reinforcing side wall are bent from the base side wall and thus partially overlap the base side wall.

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: Provided are display apparatuses and methods of operating the same. In a display apparatus, a display image may be continuously held for longer than about 10 msec after the power of the display panel is turned off. The display apparatus may indicate a liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus including an oxide thin film transistor (TFT). Off leakage current of the oxide TFT may be less than about 10?14 A.

Abstract: The present inventions to provide a novel polymerizable chiral compound (chiral agent) having high helical twisting power, a polymerizable liquid crystal composition comprising the polymerizable chiral compound and a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a liquid crystal polymer, and an optically anisotropic body.

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: An organic transistor array includes gate electrodes provided on a substrate, source and drain electrodes provided above or below the gate electrodes via a gate insulator layer, and an organic semiconductor layer opposing the gate electrodes via the gate insulator layer, and forming a channel region between mutually adjacent source and drain electrodes. The organic transistor array in a plan view is sectioned into sections each forming a single pixel, and each section has a closest packed structure.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a light guide plate guiding light, light sources disposed adjacent to at least one side of the light guide plate, and a lower receptacle. The lower receptacle includes a bottom plate on which the light guide plate and the light sources are disposed, a lower receptacle side wall extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the bottom plate and from an edge of the bottom plate, and an upper plate extended from the lower receptacle side wall and substantially parallel to the bottom plate. The upper plate does not overlap the light guide plate in a plan view of the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal display device with a good display quality, and a manufacturing method of such a liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display device (10) includes a liquid crystal display panel (11) with a display surface (20) defining a recessed curved surface having curvature of 1/500- 1/50 (1/mm), and with a scattering section which is arranged parallel to the display surface (20), which defines a recessed curved surface having curvature of 1/500- 1/50 (1/mm), and in which a plurality of elongated regions (A-C) having different haze values are arranged in parallel with each other from a middle section of the curved surface toward both end sections in the curving direction. The haze values of the plurality of elongated regions (A-C) arranged in parallel with each other vary in a step-wise manner from the middle section of the curved surface toward the both end sections in the curving direction.

Abstract: A pixel array includes pixel sets. Each pixel set includes a first and second scan lines arranged in parallel on a substrate, a data line not parallel to the first and second scan lines, a first active device electrically connecting the first scan line and the data line, a second active device electrically connecting the second scan line and the data line, a first pixel electrode electrically connecting the first active device, a second pixel electrode electrically connecting the second active device, and an auxiliary electrode pattern that includes a connecting portion and a first and second branch portions. A gap is between the first and second pixel electrodes. The connecting portion underneath the gap between the first and second pixel electrodes partially overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes. The first and second branch portions connect the connecting portion and partially overlap the first and second pixel electrodes, respectively.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a touch screen and a method of manufacturing the same. The touch screen includes: a transparent substrate; a transparent electrode formed on the transparent substrate and including a sensing part sensing a touch input and an extension part extending from the sensing part to an edge of the transparent substrate; a wiring electrode formed at the edge of the transparent substrate and spaced apart from the extension part of the transparent electrode; and a conductive paste formed at the edge of the transparent substrate and covering both the extension part and the wiring electrode so as to electrically connect the transparent electrode to the wiring electrode, whereby the transparent electrode is formed after the wiring electrode is formed and the wiring electrode is connected to the transparent electrode through the conductive paste, thereby preventing the transparent electrode from being damaged.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal medium composition, a liquid crystal display using same and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal medium composition includes a liquid crystal material, a polymerizable monomer, a stabilizer, and a sensitizer. The sensitizer shows strong absorbance of ultraviolet light having wavelength between 300-380 nm and is composed of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon composed of a plurality of benzene rings linked with substituted moieties. The liquid crystal display includes: upper and a lower substrate that are arranged parallel to each other and the liquid crystal medium composition arranged between the upper and lower substrates.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a conductive support layer, a light emitting structure layer on the conductive support layer, a first transparent conductive layer and a second transparent conductive layer disposed between the conductive support layer and the light emitting structure layer, and an electrode on the light emitting structure layer.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device performs suitable overshoot drive, even if a panel temperature is changed due to a change of the backlight emission luminance. The liquid crystal display device includes: a temperature sensor which detects the temperature in the device; an emphasis conversion section, which obtains, after the elapse of one vertical display period, an emphasis conversion parameter for making the transmissivity of the liquid crystal panel reach the transmissivity specified by input image signals, and which outputs applying voltage signals for the liquid crystal panel on the basis of the emphasis conversion parameter; and a main microcomputer which corrects the panel temperature of the liquid crystal panel on the basis of the changed light emission luminance when the light emission luminance of the backlight is changed. The emphasis conversion section variably controls the emphasis conversion parameter on the basis of the panel temperature corrected via the main microcomputer.

Abstract: A light guide plate comprising an incidence surface, a lower surface, an upper surface and an opposite surface which is opposite to the incidence surface, wherein the length of the upper surface is less than the length of the lower surface, and an acute angle is formed between the opposite surface and the direction of elongation line of the upper surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, characterised in that it contains a polymerisable component (A) containing one more polymerisable compounds and a liquid-crystalline component (B) containing one more compounds of the general formula I in which R, rings A1 and A2, Z1, Z2, Y1, Y2, X0 and r are as defined in Claim 1.

Abstract: A thin film transistor in which an effect of photo current is small and an On/Off ratio is high is provided. In a bottom-gate bottom-contact (coplanar) thin film transistor, a channel formation region overlaps with a gate electrode, a first impurity semiconductor layer is provided between the channel formation region and a second impurity semiconductor layer which is in contact with a wiring layer. A semiconductor layer which serves as the channel formation region and the first impurity semiconductor layer preferably overlap with each other in a region where they overlap with the gate electrode. The first impurity semiconductor layer and the second impurity semiconductor layer preferably overlap with each other in a region where they do not overlap with the gate electrode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a curable dichroic dye and a curable liquid crystal compound, which are used to prepare an optical component that is vertically oriented to give a narrow viewing angle, to form an optical component, and an optical component comprising an optical component layer prepared using the same. There is provided a composition for forming an optical component comprising 0.1-90 parts by weight of a dichroic dye and 10-98.85 parts by weight of a curable liquid crystal compound, and there is also provided an optical component comprising an optical component layer in which a curable liquid crystal compound and a curable dichroic dye are vertically oriented.

Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystal (LC) media for use in LC displays of the PS (polymer stabilised) or PSA (polymer sustained alignment) type.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a back light unit for a liquid crystal display device, which can improve safety and reliability of the back light unit; and a method for fabricating the same. The back light unit for a liquid crystal display device includes lamps for supplying a light to a liquid crystal display panel, a printed circuit board of a non-conductive plastic having sockets mounted thereto for supplying a high voltage to the lamps, a cover bottom fastened to the printed circuit board, having the lamps received therein, and a hook shaped projection formed as one unit with the printed circuit board for placing in a hole in the cover bottom for fastening the printed circuit board to the cover bottom.

Abstract: A dual-image flat display device includes a first and a second substrates parallel with each other, a liquid crystal layer having liquid crystal molecules, and at least a pixel disposed on the second substrate. The pixel includes pluralities of sub-pixels arranged side by side along a first direction. Each sub-pixel has a first azimuthal angle domain and a second azimuthal angle domain, wherein the first and second azimuthal angle domains are arranged side by side along a second direction in the sub-pixel, and the second direction is not parallel with the first direction. The azimuthal angles of liquid crystal molecules in the first and second azimuthal angle domains have an included angle less than 180°.

Abstract: A simple matrix type dot-matrix liquid crystal display element includes a first and a second transparent substrate disposed opposite to each other, first and second transparent electrodes disposed on the opposed face of the first and the second transparent substrate, respectively, a first and a second vertical alignment film disposed on the opposed side of the first and the second transparent substrate to cover the first and the second electrodes, respectively, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the opposed side of the first and the second transparent substrate and having ??<0 and ?nd>450 nm, and a first and a second viewing angle compensation plate disposed on the unopposed side of the first and the second transparent substrate, respectively, wherein in the first transparent electrode, openings extending in a predefined direction are aligned.

Abstract: An inspection method for an active-matrix substrate including the scanning lines, the data lines, the pixels disposed in matrix, and the power lines. The pixel includes: an organic EL device; a drive transistor; a capacitor; a selection transistor having a gate connected to the scanning line and connected between the data line and the gate of the drive transistor, and the guard potential transistor having a gate connected to a source of the selection transistor, a source connected to a drain of the selection transistor, and a drain connected to the power line. The inspection method includes: a writing process for writing a charge in the capacitor; a reading process for reading the written charged from the capacitor; and a holding process for holding the charge for a predetermined period from the end of the writing process to the start of the reading process.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of the nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a large elastic constant, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics. Also provided is an AM device having a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific compound having a large elastic constant as a first component, and a specific compound having a large dielectric anisotropy as a second component, and has a nematic phase, and a liquid crystal display device contains the composition.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first insulating substrate, in which a pixel area is defined, a gate line formed on the first insulating substrate, a data line crossing the gate line, and a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line. The second substrate is opposite to the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first and second substrates and includes a liquid crystal composition with a nematic-isotropic phase transition temperature (Tni) of 79° C. or above.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a switch control unit, a test apparatus and method for a liquid crystal cell. The switch control unit controls a signal input to the liquid crystal display driver and controls the output of the signal from the liquid crystal display driver accordingly, and includes a control signal generator and a switch module. The test apparatus for the liquid crystal cell comprises: a switch control unit connected with a gate driver, for controlling ON and OFF of a signal input to the gate driver and controlling ON and OFF of a gate scan signal accordingly. The test method for the liquid crystal cell comprises: inputting a test signal; controlling ON and OFF of a gate scan signal by controlling ON and OFF of a signal input to a gate driver so as to determine the badness positions on a screen.

Abstract: According to various embodiments of the invention, gamma curves for multiple pixel groups can be calibrated using look-up tables or by using reference voltage groups provided by gamma voltage generators so that the pixels can display multiple images with correct gray levels at different view angles. Therefore, color shift can be avoided or lessened without necessarily using extra circuitry on the display panel. Also, any related light transmittance or light utilization efficiency reduction may be decreased or eliminated.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is disclosed, by which misalignment between a tape carrier package and a panel can be prevented in a manner of forming an align mark between output pads provided to a central part of the tape carrier package.

Abstract: This invention provides a display device and the assembly method thereof. The display device includes a first electronic module and a second electronic module partly overlapping each other. The first electronic module includes a first signal transmission unit with one side extending to form a first extension section. The second electronic module includes a second signal transmission unit partly overlapping the first signal transmission unit and having a side extending to form a first connection section. The first extension section overlaps and is electrically connected to the first connection section. Part of the overlapping first extension section and first connection section are bent to partly overlap the second signal transmission unit. Thus the second signal transmission unit is able to accept and to transmit signals via the first signal transmission unit of the first electronic device.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate (6); a second substrate (7); a liquid crystal layer (LC); a first alignment film (606) placed on the first substrate; a second alignment film (705) placed on the second substrate; and at least one of: a transparent layer (610) contacting the first alignment film on the other side of the liquid crystal layer and being lower in volume resistivity than the first alignment film; and a transparent layer (710) contacting the second alignment film on the other side of the liquid crystal layer and being lower in volume resistivity than the second alignment film, wherein the transparent layer contains polysiloxane expressed by Chemical Formula 1: where R1 and R2 each represent an alkyl group or alkoxy group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, or a hydroxyl group, and at least 30% of hydroxyl groups are contained.

Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound having a high stability to heat, light or the like, a wide temperature range of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy and a suitable elastic constant K33, and further having a suitable negative dielectric anisotropy and an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds.

Abstract: At least one of a first control circuit (60) for controlling a liquid crystal display component (30) and a second control circuit (64) for controlling a light source unit (40) is provided in an area (R1) demarcated by a plane including a front face (32) of the liquid crystal display component (30) and a plane including a rear face (44) of the light source unit (40).

Abstract: A birefringent film which comprises a compound having a proton-accepting group and a compound having a proton-donating group; and a birefringent film which comprises a compound having a proton-accepting group and a proton-donating group. The proton-accepting group and proton-donating group are combined with each other through intermolecular hydrogen bonding.

Abstract: A thin film transistor array panel includes: a substrate; a gate line and a storage electrode that are disposed on the substrate; a data line that crosses the gate line and storage electrode line; a thin film transistor that is connected with the gate line and data line; and a pixel electrode that is connected to the thin film transistor. The storage electrode includes a first storage electrode that is parallel to the gate line, second storage electrodes that extend on opposing sides of the data line from the first storage electrode, a connection part that crosses the data line and connects pairs of the second storage electrodes, and a connection bridge that crosses the gate line and connects a second storage electrode to a second storage electrode of an adjacent pixel.

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: It is an object of the present invention to provide a liquid crystal display device with a good display quality, and a manufacturing method of such a liquid crystal display device. A liquid crystal display device (10) includes a liquid crystal display panel (11) with a display surface (20) defining a recessed curved surface having curvature of 1/500- 1/50 (1/mm), and with a scattering section which is arranged parallel to the display surface (20), which defines a recessed curved surface having curvature of 1/500- 1/50 (1/mm), and in which a plurality of elongated regions (A-C) having different haze values are arranged in parallel with each other from a middle section of the curved surface toward both end sections in the curving direction. The haze values of the plurality of elongated regions (A-C) arranged in parallel with each other vary in a step-wise manner from the middle section of the curved surface toward the both end sections in the curving direction.

Abstract: The subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one characteristic of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a negatively large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or that is suitably balanced regarding two characteristics thereof. The subject is to provide an AM device that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The invention provides a liquid crystal composition having a negative dielectric anisotropy that includes a specific four-ring compound replaced by fluorine having a high maximum temperature as a first component, and a specific compound having a negatively large anisotropy as a second component, and provides a liquid crystal display device containing the composition.

Abstract: A chassis set includes a first chassis and a second chassis. The first chassis includes a first connecting portion having at least one guide protrusion. The second chassis includes a second connecting portion having at least one guide hole that receives the guide protrusion of the first chassis to combine the first and second chassis. Therefore, a manufacturing cost is reduced and productivity is enhanced. Additionally, the chassis can be made easily.

Abstract: The present invention relates to thiophene derivatives, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid-crystal (LC) media and LC displays, and to LC media and LC displays comprising same.

Abstract: A backlight module with a detachable light source unit includes a light guide plate and a light source unit housed in a module case. The light source unit can slide along a lengthwise direction of one end face of the light guide plate. The light source unit is equipped with a U-shaped cover member for holding a plurality of point light sources such as LEDs along a lengthwise direction. The backlight module further includes a coupling member to change a positional relationship between the light guide plate and the light source unit such that a distance between an emitting surface of the LED and an incident plane of the light guide plate during a process of exchanging the light source unit is larger than that between the emitting surface and the incident plane at a time of home position of the light source unit in the module case.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a backlight module and a LCD using the same. Said backlight module comprises a light guide plate, a reflection sheet and a backplane, wherein said reflection sheet is arranged under the light guide plate; said backplane is arranged under the reflection sheet and partially supports the reflection sheet; and said reflection sheet is bent to form one or more supporting ribs for supporting the backplane to prevent the reflection sheet from drooping. The present invention solves the problem that the reflection sheet is affected by heat and then is easy to droop, by bending the reflection sheet of the backlight module to form the one or more supporting ribs for supporting the reflection sheet, and has the advantages of low cost and no negative influence on other components and system structure of the backlight module.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel calamitic mesogenic compounds which are especially suitable for use in birefringent films with negative optical dispersion, to novel liquid crystal (LC) formulations and polymer films comprising them, and to the use of the compounds, formulations and films in optical, electrooptical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.

Abstract: An LCD apparatus comprising an LCD screen, backlight arrangements for providing back illumination to the LCD screen, video processing circuitry and air moving devices, characterized in that the air moving devices are arranged to move air to condition the image displaying surface of the LCD screen. An LCD image displaying apparatus according to the present invention could operate at a brightness level of above 1000 nits, and even 3000 nits, which provides an astounding visual effect in the outdoor environment.

Abstract: The invention relates to mesogenic tetrahydropyran compounds having at least four rings, of the formula I in which R1, A1, A2, X1, L1, L2, m and n have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, and to a process for the preparation thereof, to the use thereof in liquid-crystalline media, to liquid-crystalline media comprising at least one compound of the formula I, and to electro-optical displays containing a liquid-crystalline medium of this type.

Abstract: A tandem type backlight comprises plural light-emitting units (11) including at least one point light source (5) and a light guide plate (7) for causing light from the at least one point light source to be diffused and surface-emitted. In each of the light-emitting units (11), a length X of a light guide area (9) is set so that an area, on a boundary surface between a light-emitting area (10) and the light guide area (9), of a cross-section of a light beam that is emitted from the at least one point light source (5) and is diffused in the light guide plate (7) is equal to or larger than an area of the boundary surface (interface). Moreover, a length X, in a length direction D1, of the light guide area is smaller than a length Y, in the length direction D1, of the light-emitting area.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing, with high mass productivity, liquid crystal display devices having highly reliable thin film transistors with excellent electric characteristics is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having an inverted staggered thin film transistor, the inverted staggered thin film transistor is formed as follows: a gate insulating film is formed over a gate electrode; a microcrystalline semiconductor film which functions as a channel formation region is formed over the gate insulating film; a buffer layer is formed over the microcrystalline semiconductor film; a pair of source and drain regions are formed over the buffer layer; and a pair of source and drain electrodes are formed in contact with the source and drain regions so as to expose a part of the source and drain regions.