Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kyoto University

Dic Corporation

Kyushu University

Takeaki Araki

Kiyoshi Minoura

Koji Murata

Isa Nishiyama

Hirotsugu Kikuchi

Jun Yamamoto

Yasushi Okumura

Waki Sakatsuji

Yu Fukunaga

Koichi Endo

Koki Takamoto

Koji Fujikawa

An optical device () includes a first substrate () and a second substrate () facing each other, a liquid crystal component () between the first substrate () and the second substrate (), a first electrode () and a second electrode () located on the first substrate () on the second substrate () side, and a first alignment layer () that is located on the first substrate () on the second substrate () side and controls the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal component (), wherein an interface between the liquid crystal component () and the first alignment layer () forms a non-glide weak anchoring interface ().

Optical device and refresh driving method for optical device

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Kyoto, Japan

Takeaki Araki