Industrial Technology Research Institute

Chi-Yi Chen

Hong-Da Liu

Ching-Yih Chen

A liquid crystal display has at least one concave structure formed on one of pixel and electrode layers in each pixel area. Between the electrode layer having concave structures and a substrate is a passivation layer that is dented by the concave structures. The concave structures form multiple domains for each pixel. One of the electrode layers may be formed with bump structures or openings combining with fringe field effect to provide pre-tilting of liquid crystals to enhance the effect of multiple domains. Each concave structure in a pixel area can have a different top view, cross-sectional view or three-dimensional structure. The concave structure can be formed by existing manufacturing process. One mask rubbing process or photo-aligned method may be used to align liquid crystals for the display in cooperation with the concave structures.

Multi-domain liquid crystal display having concave virtual bump structures

A multi-domain wide viewing angle liquid crystal display (LCD) has a plurality of bump-with-slit structures formed on at least one substrate. Each bump-with-slit structure in a single pixel area includes a plurality of slits formed on the electrodes and a plurality of bumps formed above the slits. It uses the combination of bumps and electrode slits to control the directions of the pre-tilted angles of liquid crystal molecules and to form multiple domains. The capacity storage area is designed and located under the slit of the electrode. Such capacity storage area has the function of covering the disclination lines. The LCD structure decreases the color dispersion of the LCD, increases the response speed and reduces the generation of disclination lines. Moreover, the driving voltage for the LCD is lower and the process window is larger. Because the generation of disclination lines is reduced, the aperture ratio under the black matrix area of the multi-domain wide-viewing angle LCD of the invention is increased by 15% to 20% as compared to the conventional multi-domain LCD.

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