Design of the OCB mode for the Wide Viewing Angle LCD

  • Noh, Jeong-Dong (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Gi-Dong (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Yoon, Tae-Hoon (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Chang (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • Published : 2000.01.13

Abstract

Parameters of a biaxial compensation film and a liquid crystal cell for the optically compensated bend mode LCD with wide viewing angle were optimized. For practical approach, we calculated the optical refractive indices of a retardation film when thickness of a retardation film was fixed at 50 ${\mu}m$. Furthermore, we also optimized optical parameters of LC cell when parameters of a retardation film were different with designed values, because the biaxial compensation film with exact designed values was very difficult to fabricate. In experiments, we achieved the wide viewing angle of over the ${\pm}$ 60 degrees by using a biaxial compensation film with a practical thickness value.

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