Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kaneka Corporation

University of Hyogo

Sharp Kubushiki Kaisha

Yuki Kawashima

Yasutoshi Tasaka

Toshihiro Yanagi

Asahi Yamato

Kiyoshi Nakagawa

Kohzoh Takahashi

Yasuyoshi Kaise

Yoshimizu Moriya

Noboru Nakanishi

Mutsuaki Murakami

Hisashi Nagata

Keiichi Ina

Masamitsu Tachibana

Shuhei Ozaki

Kaori Saitoh

Tetsuo Harada

Takeo Watanabe

The present disclosure relates to a pellicle that can achieve both a high EUV transmittance and a uniformity in EUV transmittance by including a graphite thin film having a film thickness of 5 nm or more and 30 nm or less and a surface roughness (Sa) of 0.1 nm or more and 500 nm or less.

Pellicle comprising graphite thin film

The present disclosure relates to a wiring circuit, and a method for producing the wiring circuit, that includes graphite wiring having a specified thickness, a high electrical conductivity, and a high carrier mobility. The wiring circuit may include graphite wiring comprised of graphite where the graphite wiring has a thickness of 3 nm or more and less than 300 nm. The graphite may have an electrical conductivity along a graphite film plane direction of 18000 S/cm or more, and the graphite may have a carrier mobility along the graphite film plane direction of 9500 cm/Vsec or more. The method for producing a wiring circuit may include steps of: (1) bonding a graphite film with a substrate; (2) plasma etching the graphite film to form a graphite thin film; and (3) etching the graphite thin film to form a wiring circuit.

Wiring circuit and method for producing same

A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT array substrate (first substrate), a counter substrate (second substrate), a liquid crystal layer, and a common electrode (first electrode), an insulating film, and pixel electrodes(second electrode) that are provided on the TFT array substrate. Each of the pixel electrodeshas a plurality of linear electrodesand a first connection portion. Each of the linear electrodeshas a main line portionand a first bent portion. An additional capacitance portionis provided integrally with the first connection portionin a region along an arrangement direction of a plurality of first bent portions

Liquid crystal display device

A liquid crystal display element () of the present invention includes a transparent common electrode () which is provided in a layer between (i) a scan line () and a signal line () and (ii) a pixel electrode () so that the transparent common electrode () covers a location which faces at least one of (i) at least part of the scan line () and (ii) at least part of the signal line (), the transparent common electrode () having an opening part () at a location which faces the pixel electrode ().

Liquid crystal display element and liquid crystal display device

Each of the pixel electrodes that are disposed in a liquid crystal display panel of one embodiment of the present invention is constituted of minutely patterned electrode regions (a first minutely patterned electrode region and a second minutely patterned electrode region), and one solid electrode region, and the length Lpix of each of the pixel electrodes in a direction along a data line, and the total length LB of the minutely patterned electrode regions satisfies the relationship of LB/Lpix=0.3 to 0.6.

Liquid crystal display panel comprising a pixel electrode that includes one uniformly planar electrode region and one or more finely patterned electrode regions

Arbitrary one pixel P (contact hole pixel ()) is selected in a predetermined demarcated area () of the liquid crystal display device of the present invention. The pixel P is (i) any of four pixels Qthrough Q(contact hole pixels ()) closest to another pixel P or (ii) (a) contained in a quadrangle whose vertices correspond to respective four pixels Qthrough Qclosest to the pixel P and (b) any of four pixels Qthrough Qclosest to another pixel P. Further, two diagonal lines of a quadrangle formed by four pixels Qthrough Qare inclined at respective two angles with respect to a gate bus line (line segment A-B), and a difference between the two angles is smaller than 30 degrees. Moreover, the contact hole pixels () are provided for respective source bus lines in the predetermined demarcated area ().

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel that has an enhanced liquid crystal alignment controlling force irrespective of the external conditions or environments. The enhanced liquid crystal alignment controlling force sufficiently prevents surface roughness or color unevenness that can occur depending on the viewing angle, so that favorable display qualities and excellent transmittance can be achieved. The liquid crystal display panel includes a pair of substrates comprising a pixel electrode and a counter electrode; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates, the liquid crystal display panel comprising spacers at at least four corners of a pixel defined by the pixel electrode.

Liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal display device

In one embodiment of the present invention, when a still image is displayed, applied voltages respectively corresponding to a total of n (n being an integer of not less than 4) types of gradationto (n&#x2212;1) are outputted to pixels. When a moving image is displayed, an applied voltage corresponding to a predetermined gradation m (1&#x2266;m&#x2266;(n&#x2212;2)) is applied to the pixels instead of applied voltages respectively corresponding to gradations of less than the predetermined gradation m. Overdrive driving is performed with respect to a total of n types of gradation.

Method for driving liquid crystal display apparatus

A liquid crystal display device includes: an active matrix substrate with a pixel electrode in each of a plurality of pixels; a counter substrate including a counter electrode that opposes the pixel electrode; a liquid crystal layer between the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate; and a pair of polarizers oppose each other via the liquid crystal layer and are in a crossed Nicols arrangement. The pixel electrode- includes a cruciform trunk portion arranged to coincide with polarization axes of the polarizers, a plurality of branch portions extending from the trunk portion, and a plurality of slits between the branch portions. The active matrix substrate further includes an auxiliary electrode which is arranged to oppose the pixel electrode via an insulation layer. The auxiliary electrode and the pixel electrode define a storage capacitor.

In one embodiment of the present invention, when a still image is displayed, applied voltages respectively corresponding to a total of n (n being an integer of not less than 4) types of gradation 0 to (n&#x2212;1) are outputted to pixels. When a moving image is displayed, an applied voltage corresponding to a predetermined gradation m (1&#x2266;m&#x2266;(n&#x2212;2)) is applied to the pixels instead of applied voltages respectively corresponding to gradations of less than the predetermined gradation m. Overdrive driving is performed with respect to a total of n types of gradation.

In one embodiment of the present invention, when a still image is displayed, applied voltages respectively corresponding to a total of n (n being an integer of not less than 4) types of gradation 0 to (n&#x2212;1) are outputted to pixels. On the other hand, when a moving image is displayed, an applied voltage corresponding to a predetermined gradation m (1&#x2266;m&#x2266;(n&#x2212;2)) is applied to the pixels instead of applied voltages respectively corresponding to gradations of less than the predetermined gradation m.

A vertical orientation liquid crystal display in which orientation control by oblique electric field is performed stably and lowering in light transmission rate of the liquid crystal display is suppressed without increasing the number of manufacturing steps significantly. In the vertical orientation liquid crystal display, a plurality of regions having different inclination orientations of liquid crystal molecule are formed by applying a voltage to each pixel electrode having an aperture or a recessed portion. The liquid crystal display comprises a switching element connected electrically with the pixel electrode, and an auxiliary electrode formed to overlap the aperture or the recessed portion in the pixel electrode wherein the auxiliary electrode is formed of the same film as that of the semiconductor layer in the switching element.

Liquid crystal display having particular auxiliary electrode

A control section () merely passes an incoming image data signal DAT onto a source driving section for display driving during the display of a still image. During the display of a moving image, the control section () converts, using a computing section () and a look-up table (), a grayscale level signal in the incoming image data signal DAT to a grayscale level signal that is obtainable without using those application voltages at which the response speed of liquid crystal is slow. The control section () then outputs the resultant grayscale level signal to the source driving section for display driving.

A display device according to the present invention contains a transparent display unit () and a reflective display unit () in one pixel. The reflective display unit () is provided with an insulating layer () constituting a multi-gap layer, and a pixel electrode () and a common electrode () set closer to a display surface than a reflective film () at least through the insulating layer. The reflective film () is provided on the same plane as the insulating layer () in the lower substrate () and covered with the insulating layer (), or provided in a lower layer than the insulating layer () in the lower substrate () and overlapped with the insulating layer ().

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Osaka, Japan

Yuki Kawashima