Abstract:
A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal layer, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode; and a backlight unit including a light source to provide light to the liquid crystal panel. The pixel electrode includes a longitudinal electrode having a bar shape and extending in a vertical direction; a transverse electrode having a bar shape, crossing the longitudinal electrode, and extending in a horizontal direction; and a branch electrode having a bar shape, extending from the longitudinal or transverse electrode, and including an oblique part extending in an oblique direction. The common electrode overlaps the longitudinal electrode, and a longitudinal opening extending in the vertical direction is defined in the common electrode, and a width of a part of the pixel electrode where the longitudinal and the transverse electrodes cross each other is substantially the same as a width of the transverse electrode.
Abstract:
A liquid-crystal display device includes: a first substrate comprising a plurality of pixels; a pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate in each of the pixels; a second substrate including a surface facing the first substrate; a wavelength conversion layer and a transmissive layer disposed on the surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid-crystal layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the wavelength conversion layer and between the pixel electrode and the transmissive layer, wherein the pixel electrode includes a stem electrode and a plurality of branch electrodes extending from the stem electrode, and wherein all of the plurality of branch electrodes extending from the stem electrode extend in a same direction.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a pixel electrode which is disposed on the first substrate and comprises a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode adjacent to the first sub-pixel electrode along a first direction, and a shielding electrode which is disposed on the same layer as the pixel electrode and comprises a first area having a first width and a second area having a second width which is smaller than the first width along a second direction which crosses the first direction, and the first sub-pixel electrode may be adjacent to the first area along the second direction, and the second sub-pixel electrode may be adjacent to the second area along the second direction.
Abstract:
A composition for an alignment layer includes a polyimide-based compound including a polymerization initiator coupled to a side chain of the polyimide-based compound.
Abstract:
A curved liquid crystal display includes an upper curved substrate; a lower curved substrate; a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules having negative dielectric anisotropy and between the upper and lower curved substrates; an upper curved liquid crystal alignment layer between the liquid crystal layer and the upper curved substrate; a lower curved liquid crystal alignment layer between the liquid crystal layer and the lower curved substrate. In a first region, a content of a reactive mesogen polymer per unit area of the lower curved liquid crystal alignment layer is higher that of the upper curved liquid crystal alignment layer, and in a second region, the content of the reactive mesogen polymer per unit area of the upper curved liquid crystal alignment layer is higher than that of the lower curved liquid crystal alignment layer.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display including: a lower electrode including a unit pixel electrode; an upper electrode including an upper unit electrode facing the unit pixel electrode; and a liquid crystal layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules aligned approximately perpendicular to the surfaces of the lower electrode and the upper electrode in the absence of an electric field, wherein the unit pixel electrode includes a stem forming a boundary between a plurality of sub-regions and a plurality of minute branches extending in different directions in two different sub-regions, the upper unit electrode includes an opening facing the stem and extending parallel to the stem, any alignment aid to pretilt the liquid crystal molecules is absent, and a length of the minute branches is equal to or less than about 53 μm.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display includes a first panel including a first electrode, which includes side electrodes in edge areas of a pixel, a central electrode connected to the side electrodes and disposed in a central area of the pixel, and fine branches, some of which are connected to the side electrode, a second panel in which a cutout, which corresponds to the first electrode and divides the fine branches, the central electrode and the side electrode into domains is defined, and which includes a second electrode, which is separated by the cutout and corresponds to each of the domains, where second slit patterns, which are provided by partially cutting out ends of the fine branches, separate the side electrodes and the fine branches from each other, and extend in parallel to a longitudinal direction of the side electrodes are defined in the first panel.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a gate line the first substrate, an insulating layer the gate line, and pixel electrodes the insulating layer, where the pixel electrodes include a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode neighboring to each other, each of the first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the third pixel electrode includes a vertical stem part, a horizontal stem part, and fine branch parts extended from each horizontal stem part and each vertical stem part to both opposite sides in a diagonal direction, the fine branch parts of the first pixel electrode are alternately branched to the both opposite sides of the horizontal stem part and the vertical stem part, and the second pixel electrode and the third pixel electrode include an outer side part enclosing an edge of each pixel electrode.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a gate line and a data line disposed on the first substrate, a first thin film transistor and a second thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, a first subpixel electrode connected to the first thin film transistor, a resistor connected to the second thin film transistor and a resistance of the resistor is changed by a pulsed gate-on signal applied to the gate line, and a second subpixel electrode connected to the resistor.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display (LCD) may include: a lower display panel having a pixel electrode positioned therein, the pixel electrode including one or more pixel unit electrodes; an upper display panel having a common electrode positioned therein, the common electrode including one or more common unit electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer positioned between the lower display panel and the upper display panel. The pixel unit electrode may include a plate part and fine branches extending from the plate part, the common unit electrode may include a cross-shaped opening, and a vertical opening of the cross-shaped opening is completely covered by the plate part without extending to an edge of the polygonal shape of the plate part.