Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Tomoko Okamura

Noriko Watanabe

Shigeaki Mizushima

Mitsuaki Hirata

Hiroko Iwagoe

Kazuyuki Aburazaki

Seiji Makino

A liquid crystal display apparatus of the invention includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of substrates with alignment films formed at interfaces between the liquid crystal layer and the respective substrates. The alignment films regulate aligning conditions of liquid crystal in the liquid crystal layer. In the liquid crystal display apparatus, the liquid crystal layer includes two or more liquid crystal layer regions of different aligning conditions, and at least one of the alignment films has surface tensions which are different from each other in surface regions thereof corresponding to the respective liquid crystal layer regions of different aligning conditions.

Liquid crystal display apparatus and method for processing the same

A liquid crystal display apparatus having a pair of substrates with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween is disclosed. Also, a method for producing the same and a substrate are disclosed. In the liquid crystal display apparatus, an aligning film is formed on at least one of the pair of substrates, the surface of the aligning film is made rough for controlling pretilt angles of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer which are in contact with the surface of the aligning film, and the degrees of roughness are different among a plurality of prescribed regions.

Method for producing a liquid crystal display apparatus by irradiating

Liquid crystal display apparatus having plural regions of different

A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a pair of substrates with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. In the liquid crystal display apparatus, an aligning film is formed on at least one of the pair of substrates. The surface of the aligning film is made rough for controlling pretilt angles of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer which are in contact with the surface of the aligning film. Further, the degrees of roughness are different among a plurality of prescribed regions.

Liquid crystal display apparatus, a method for producing the same, and a

A method for producing a liquid crystal display apparatus, including a pair of substrates with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, includes forming an aligning film on at least one of the pair of substrates. The surface of the aligning film is made rough to adjust the pretilt angles of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer which are adjacent the aligning film. Further, the degrees of roughness are different among a plurality of prescribed regions.

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Tomoko Okamura