International Business Machines Corporation

Shuichi Odahara

Minhua Lu

Hiroki Nakano

Alessandro Cesare Callegari

Praveen Chaudhari

James Patrick Doyle

Shui-Chih Alan Lien

James Andrew Lacey

Eileen Ann Galligan

Yoshimine Kato

The present invention includes a method of forming an aligned film on a substrate. The film is deposited and aligned in a single step by a method comprising the step of bombarding a substrate with an ion beam at a designated incident angle to simultaneously (a) deposit the film onto the substrate and (b) arrange an atomic structure of the film in at least one predetermined aligned direction.

Ion gun deposition and alignment for liquid-crystal applications

Blue bright spots occurring when using overhead projectors with liquid crystal modules (LCDs) are prevented by providing intercepting filter in the liquid crystal module for modifying light reaching the thin film transistors of the LCDs in the portion of the spectrum absorbed by and passing through the protection layer formed on the TFT. In the case where protection layer on the TFT is formed of an amorphous silicon layer, the intercepting filter has the characteristic of modifying the light having wavelengths of 380 nm to 500 nm. The intercepting filter being a color filter of other than blue is formed just above the TFT at least part of which is related to a cell of blue.

Liquid crystal display module

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Shuichi Odahara