Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Hisashi Kadota

Hirohide Fukumoto

Makoto Hashimoto

Akiko Toriyama

Yasuhiro Shirasaka

Masato Doi

Katsuhiro Tomoda

Masaru Fujii

Izushi Kobayashi

Masafumi Kunii

Takusei Sato

Takenobu Urazono

Toshiya Takagishi

Hiromi Fukumori

Yuko Inoue

Hiroshi Terahara

Kazuya Ueda

Kazuhiro Noda

Hisao Hayashi

Shinji Nakamura

Hiroaki Ichikawa

Tsuyoshi Okazaki

Makoto Akagi

Hajime Tsuchiya

Toshihiko Iwanaga

Kohichi Ohmura

Tomoki Kurata

Jun Takahama

Hidenobu Kuroi

Shinji Nakamua

Shinj Nakamura

A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a plurality of light emitting sections. The first substrate includes a first surface and a second surface which faces the first surface. The second substrate is arranged to face the first substrate, and is configured with a first surface which faces the second surface of the first substrate, and a second surface which faces the first surface. The plurality of light emitting sections is provided on the second surface of the first substrate while being separated from the second substrate. A light transmission suppression layer on which a light transmission section to transmit light from light emitting sections is provided is formed on the second surface of the second substrate in correspondence to each light emitting section. An anti-reflection layer is formed in the light transmission section.

Display device

Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display element in which a liquid crystal layer is interposed between a pair of substrates laminated to each other by a sealing material such that alignment films are opposed to each other with a predetermined gap between the alignment films, wherein a range of dielectric anisotropy &#x394;&#x3b5; of a material for the liquid crystal layer at a measured temperature of 70&#xb0; C. is &#x2212;4.5 to less than zero.

Liquid crystal display element and projection type liquid crystal display device

Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer; a first electrode part; and a second electrode part. The first electrode part includes a pixel electrode formed in the pixel area and a peripheral electrode formed in the peripheral area. The second electrode part includes a pixel electrode part formed in the pixel area and a peripheral electrode formed in the peripheral area. The peripheral electrode of at least one of the first electrode part and the second electrode part is formed by a plurality of electrodes adjacent to each other. Voltage values of driving voltages applied to the respective electrodes adjacent to each other of the peripheral electrode are different from each other.

Liquid crystal display device and video display device

A light-shielding plate and a first light-shielding layer are arranged between a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal layer in a peripheral region of a liquid crystal panel so that linearly polarized light transmitted through the polarizing plate, which is a reflection polarizing plate, is not incident on the liquid crystal layer, but is reflected to the polarizing plate in the peripheral region.

Liquid crystal display apparatus and liquid crystal panel

A liquid crystal display device having a high quality able to prevent deterioration etc. of a liquid crystal panel even when a liquid crystal panel used in a light valve of a projector etc. is operated under a high temperature and high humidity environment and a projection type display apparatus using the liquid crystal display device, wherein a liquid crystal layeris sandwiched between a pair of substrates formed by bonding a TFT array substrateand a counter substrateby a sealing materialso that they face each other across a predetermined gap, the sealing materialcontains a nonconductive filler having a mean particle size of less than 0.5 &#x3bc;m, a liquid crystal material used in the liquid crystal layeris set in its refractive index anisotropy an at room temperature to 0.16 or more, and a cell gap d of an interval between the TFT array substrateand the counter substrateis set at 3 &#x3bc;m or less.

Liquid crystal display device and projection type display apparatus

A liquid crystal panel has a liquid crystal layer of liquid crystal molecules sealed between a pair of substrates having alignment films thereon. Each of the films includes first and second deposited layers, each of the layers being formed of an inorganic material by oblique deposition. The second layer is stacked on top of the first layer such that the deposited molecules of the first layer are aligned substantially perpendicular to the orientation of the deposited molecules of the second layer. The first layer is formed by oblique deposition at an oblique angle of about 60&deg; relative to the normal of the substrate surface to align the liquid crystal molecules perpendicular to the deposited molecules. The second layer is formed by oblique deposition at an oblique angle of about 85&deg; relative to the normal of the substrate surface to align the liquid crystal molecules parallel to the deposited molecules.

Liquid crystal panel and method for manufacturing same

A transmission type display includes a thin film transistor for driving a pixel electrode, which transistor is provided on a substrate, and a conductive shield layer provided at a position over the thin film transistor and under the pixel electrode. A first planarization film is formed to bury an irregular contour of the thin film transistor and the shield layer is disposed on the planarized surface of the first planarization film, and a second planarization film is formed to bury steps of the shield layer, and the pixel electrode is disposed on the planarized surface of the second planarization film. Since the transmission type display has the structure in which the conductive shield layer is put between the upper second planarization film and the lower first planarization film each of which is made from an insulating material, the shielding performance and the alignment characteristic of the display can be improved.

Display and fabricating method thereof

There is provided a liquid crystal display device in which film thickness irregularities and rubbing irregularities of orientation films are minimized in which superior image quality is provided even when columnar spacers are disposed therein. The liquid crystal display device has a structure in which a liquid crystal substance is sandwiched between a pair of substrates facing each other with the space therebetween controlled to a specific value by a plurality of the columnar spacers independent from each other, wherein the placement density of the columnar spacers is 100 to 2000/mm , and the sectional area of the columnar spacers is 1 to 100 &mgr;m .

Liquid crystal display device

The present invention provides a color display device in which the shape of an on-chip color filter pattern is improved to remove differences in height on the surface of a driving substrate. In the color display device, normal color filters are formed in alignment with pixel apertures, and a dummy color filter is formed in the spaces between the respective color filters apart from contact holes. Differences in height between the color filters and the spaces between the respective color filters are removed to obtain a color display device having excellent quality of liquid crystal alignment.

Color filter structure for color display device

The present invention provides a thin-film semiconductor device suitable for an areal-pressure-distribution detector and the like. The thin-film semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises an insulating substrate 1, and element regions R being integrated and arranged on the substrate in the form of a matrix and each including a set of mutually connected electrode 2 and thin-film transistor 3. Each electrode 2 senses a signal voltage applied from above the element region R. Meanwhile, the thin-film transistor 3 are on/off-controlled in order and detect the signal voltage applied to the corresponding electrodes 2. In each element region, the surface level H1 of the sensitive region SR where the major part of the electrode 2 is formed is higher by .DELTA.H than the surface level H2 of the non-sensitive region NSR where the corresponding thin-film transistor 3 and a wiring pattern 9 are formed.

Thin-film semiconductor device having pressure sensitive and

A color display device such as an active-matrix type liquid crystal display apparatus has a first substrate having pixel electrodes arranged in the form of the matrix, switching elements associated with respective pixel electrodes and color filters aligned with the respective pixel electrodes. The first substrate is composed of a laminate structure including, superposed in the mentioned sequence, a first layer having the switching elements, a second layer having the color filters, a third layer including a planarization film which fills convexities presented by the switching elements and the color filters, and a fourth layer having the pixel electrodes aligned with the color filter. The display device also has a second substrate including a counter electrode and adjoined to the first substrate leaving a predetermined gap left therebetween. A liquid crystal is charged in the gap between the first and second substrates.

Color display device

An active-matrix substrate has a layered structure in which an upper region including a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix and a lower region including a plurality of thin film transistors for driving the individual pixel electrodes are overlapped on each other. A planarization layer is interposed between both of the substrates. An active-matrix liquid crystal display device includes a main substrate and a facing substrate which are disposed to face to each other at a specified interval. A liquid crystal layer having a specified thickness is held between both of the substrates. A device bus line area including a plurality of thin film transistor devices and bus lines is formed on the surface of the main substrate. A planarization layer is formed to embed the irregularities on the surface of the device bus line area. Pixel electrodes in a matrix are formed on the flat surface of the planarization layer. An interval dimension between the adjacent pixel electrodes is set to be larger than a thickness dimension B of the liquid crystal layer, so that the subsidiary lateral electric field is made smaller than the normal vertical electric field.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hisashi Kadota