New Reflective LCD with Wide viewing angle, High resolution and Fast response

Abstract

Reflective liquid crystal displays(LCDs) attract many interests for its light weight and low power consumption. We propose a new type of reflective LCD mainly comprising a Hybrid-aligned nematic LC-layer, a biaxial-retardation film, a light scattering film and a mirror electrode. This new type of reflective LCD has advantage of high resolution owing to the mirror electrode and wide viewing angle by designing with the same concept of the OCB mode. In this paper, we describe the structure and optical properties of this new reflective LCD.