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Multimode Configuration Doped with a Chiral Agent for Transflective Liquid Crystal Display with a Single Cell Gap

  • Yu, Chang-Jae (School of Electrical Engineering #32, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Jin-Yool (School of Electrical Engineering #32, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Woo (School of Electrical Engineering #32, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Sin-Doo (School of Electrical Engineering #32, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2004.09.30
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Abstract

We demonstrate a transflective liquid crystal display (LCD), doped with a chiral agent to produce a low helical twisting power, in a multimode configuration consisting of the homogeneous alignment and the hybrid alignment. The multimode transflective LCD with a single cell gap was fabricated using a single-step photoalignment technique with a self-masking process of an array of metal reflectors in the reflective region. In our configuration, the electro-optical disparity between the transmissive region and the reflective region was found to be significantly reduced by the low helical twisting power of the chiral dopant.

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