Wide Viewing Angle Multidomain InPlane （宽视角多畴的InPlane）.pdfVIP

Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. , Vol. 453, pp. 379–392, 2006 Copyright # Taylor Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1542-1406 print=1563-5287 online DOI: 10.1080/15421400600653928 Wide Viewing Angle Multi-domain In-Plane Switching LCD Ruibo Lu Shin-Tson Wu CREOL=College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA Qi Hong Thomas X. Wu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA The bending angle effect on a multi-domain in-plane switching liquid crystal display (MD IPS LCD) using the chevron-shaped electrodes is investigated through a three-dimensional simulation. We find that when the bending angle of the electrodes increases from 10 to 40 , the threshold voltage is lowered from 1.25 Vrms to 0.75 Vrms. With the optimized uniaxial compensation films, the view- ing angle of the film-compensated MD IPS LCD is widened to 80 viewing cone while keeping a 100:1 contrast ratio. These outstanding performances are expected to make impact to the flat panel display industry. Keywords: compensation film; in-plane switching; liquid crystal display; wide viewing angle 1. INTRODUCTION Fast response, wide viewing angle, and high contrast ratio are the main requirements for high quality transmissive LCDs, such as the large-screen LCD TVs and monitors [1]. Several operation modes, such as the multi-domain vertical alignment (MVA) [2], patterned vertical alignment (PVA) [3], advanced super view (ASV) [4] and in-plane The authors are indebted to the financial support of Toppoly Optoelectronics Corporation (Taiwan). Address correspondence to Ruibo Lu, CREOL=College of Optics and Photoni