Industrial Technology Research Institute

Ing-Jer Lin

Chi-Chang Liao

Dai-Liang Ting

Hong-Da Liu

Yi-An Sha

Lung-Pin Hsin

Ching-Hsiang Chan

Chia-Rong Sheu

Yi-Chun Wong

Kang--Hung Liu

Shin-Mao Huang

Ching-Her Chao

The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing liquid crystal display (LCD) device by utilizing photopolymer. A first photopolymer layer is coated on the support substrate and the substrate having a buffer layer is treated by photopolymerization. A substrate is treated by processes for forming an electrode layer, an alignment layer and projections as required by general LCD manufacturing. A second photopolymer layer is coated on the substrate having a plurality electrode patterns, an alignment layer and projections. Mask exposure is applied to the substrate and the photopolymer forms a polymer wall. Alternatively molding can be applied to the substrate along with linear ultra violet exposure. The photopolymer layer is hardened by such process and forms a polymer wall with alignment. The cavities in the polymer wall are filled with mixture of liquid crystal and small amount of photopolymer. The support substrate and the substrate are aligned and treated by mask exposure for coupling the support substrate to the substrate via photopolymerization. The support substrate is separated from the substrate and accordingly a single substrate LCD device is generated. The same method can be applied to manufacturing process for a LCD device without a substrate. The method increases yield rate also provides a different method for manufacturing a LCD device.

Method for manufacturing liquid crystal display

A multi-domain liquid crystal display (LCD) has a plurality of wall-bump structures formed on a common electrode layer on a substrate. Each wall-bump structure consists of at least one wall-bump disposed in a pixel area. Wall-bumps of many different shapes can be used in the wall-bump structure. The wall-bump structure is manufactured by a standard photo-lithographic process. It provides pre-tilted angles for liquid crystal molecules and results in orderly alignment of liquid crystal molecules when an external voltage is applied. By means of the fringe field effect to tilt liquid crystal molecules, a multi-domain LCD cell can be established after a voltage is applied. The multi-domain LCD provides fast response speed for its application and higher transmittance than a conventional vertically aligned wide-viewing angle LCD.

Multi-domain liquid crystal display with wall-bump structures in pixel area

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