• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: New Approach to Enhance Contrast Ratio at Normal Incidence by Controlling the Retardation of Optical Compensation Film in Vertically Aligned Liquid Crystal Displays
  • Beteiligte: Ishiguro, Makoto; Sekiguchi, Megumi; Saitoh, Yukito
  • Erschienen: IOP Publishing, 2010
  • Erschienen in: Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.1143/jjap.49.030208
  • ISSN: 0021-4922; 1347-4065
  • Schlagwörter: General Physics and Astronomy ; General Engineering
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p> We found that the light leakage at normal incidence of a vertically aligned liquid crystal display (VA-LCD) in black state is strongly affected by the polarization states of obliquely incident light. Experimental results were explained by a light scattering model of substrates on both sides of a liquid crystal layer. Applying this model, we found that the contrast ratio at normal incidence can be highly enhanced by controlling the retardation value of retardation films. This is a new, effective approach to enhancement of the contrast ratio in LCDs, different from the conventional approach of simply decreasing the depolarization of the scattering media. </jats:p>