Reflective Liquid Crystal Display Using a Non-Twist Half-Wave Cell
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 39 (3A) , L221
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.39.l221
Abstract
An optical configuration for a single-polarizer reflective liquid crystal display using a non-twist cell is proposed. Optimized optical configurations could be achieved by using a cell with a quarter-wave retardation or a half-wave retardation. Especially, a half-wave cell provides very high brightness in the bright state. The configuration can be applied to most of liquid crystal display modes with a non-twist cell. By fabricating an antiferroelectric liquid crystal (LC) cell and a vertically aligned cell, we demonstrated high brightness as well as high contrast of reflective half-wave cells.Keywords
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