Liquid crystal display with first and second tilted retarders
US6057901A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 15, 1998 |
| Grant date | May 2, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 15, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02F1/133634
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A liquid crystal display includes a tilted retarder. The tilted retarder has an optical axis which is aligned at an angle of from about 5.degree. to 15.degree. with respect to normal. Thus, because the optical axis of the liquid crystal layer is aligned at an angle to one side of normal and the optical axis of the tilted retarder(s) is at an angle to the other side of normal, the retardation effects substantially cancel one another out. Tilted retarder(s) may be used in combination with negatively birefringent retarders according to certain embodiments of this invention in twisted nematic normally white displays.
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