Response time, threshold voltage and viewing angle characteristics of the liquid crystal display (LCD) depend upon the pretilt angle of liquid crystals. Also the pretilt angle of the LC can be controlled by changing the materialistic properties like s...
Response time, threshold voltage and viewing angle characteristics of the liquid crystal display (LCD) depend upon the pretilt angle of liquid crystals. Also the pretilt angle of the LC can be controlled by changing the materialistic properties like splay and bend elastic constants of liquid crystals. To control the pretilt angle, various methods such as mixed alignment layer, nano-structured surface, and SiO2 evaporation are reported, but these techniques are not amenable to mass production and to large display panels.
In this paper, we have studied formation of new pretilt angle by polymerization of UV-curable reactive mesogen (RM) by applying vertical field. First, the gray scale inversion of commercialized twisted nematic (TN) mode was improved by employing the dual domain through formations of different pretilt angle in each domain. Second, we have studied the optically compensated splay mode driven by fringe electric field (FFS-OCS mode), in which the splay deformation of LC molecules is formed through the polymerization of UV curable RM monomer at the surfaces. The director of the proposed FFS-OCS mode rotates in plane and hence the device shows wide viewing angle. Also the normally black mode in the device can be realized even without compensation films.