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Fabrication of a Dual-Gap Substrate Using the Replica-molding Technique for Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays

Kim, Yeun-Tae (School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University)
Hong, Jong-Ho (School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University)
Cho, Seong-Min (School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University)
Lee, Sin-Doo (School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University)

Publication Information

Journal of Information Display / v.10, no.2, 2009 , pp. 68-71 More about this Journal

Abstract

A replica-molding method of fabricating a dual-gap substrate for transflective liquid crystal (LC) displays is demonstrated. The dual-gap substrate provides homeotropic alignment for the LC molecules without any surface treatment and embedded bilevel microstructure on one of the two surfaces to maintain different cell gaps between the transmissive and reflective subpixels. The proposed transflective LC cell shows no electro-optic disparity between two subpixels and reduces the panel thickness and weight by 30% compared to the conventional transflective LC cell, which has two glass substrates.

Keywords

Transflective liquid crystal display; dual-gap substrate; polydimethylsiloxane; replica-molding technique;

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