Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to solve the contrast of traditional liquid crystal light valve and the problem of response time, a kind of high-contrast and the liquid crystal light valve that responds fast are provided.The present invention adopts the ocb mode liquid crystal box with quick features of response; Through the OCB box being carried out the film compensation and optimizing; Realized the response time of 1.5ms; Maximum-contrast reaches 2200, and contrast is that the zone more than 1000 surpasses 20 ° in the horizontal and vertical directions, and contrast is that zone more than 100 is in the horizontal and vertical directions near 50 °.
Technical solution of the present invention is following:
A kind of high-contrast and the quick liquid crystal light valve of response, its structure comprises: two polaroids, two biaxial film and liquid crystal cell, wherein two polaroids are respectively the polarizer and analyzer; Its position relation is followed successively by: the polarizer, first biaxial film, liquid crystal cell, second biaxial film and analyzer, light rays is through the polarizer, first biaxial film, liquid crystal cell, second biaxial film and analyzer.
Described two polaroids all are to adopt the high-polarization polaroid.
The refractive index parameter of described two biaxial film is the same, is: Nx=1.5827, Ny=1.581, Nz=1.5799.Two biaxial film thickness are in 49~57 mu m ranges.
Described liquid crystal cell is the liquid crystal cell of ocb mode, comprising: glass substrate, tin indium oxide (ITO) electrode, oriented layer, liquid crystal material, envelope frame adhesive and spherical resin powder; Its position relation is: outermost layer is two sheet glass substrates, and the glass substrate inside surface is an electrode, is oriented layer more inwards; The centre is liquid crystal material and sept, and during making alive, liquid crystal material is not arranged along the oriented layer direction that friction is good in advance; It is the antiparallel arrangement of liquid crystal molecule; Liquid crystal molecule is the bend alignment structure when adding low-voltage, and arrange on liquid crystal molecule vertical substrate surface when adding high voltage, and the liquid crystal cell of this pattern has the characteristics of quick response.
Described two glass substrates rely on the glue bond of edge sealing frame together, in liquid crystal, place the thickness of controlling liquid crystal layer with the spherical resin powder of required thickness of liquid crystal layer coupling.
Described envelope frame adhesive is formed enclosure space with layer glass substrate up and down between the layer glass substrate.
The thickness of described liquid crystal layer is 4 μ m, liquid crystal material parameter: ε
//=18.6, ε
⊥=3.5, n
o=1.5, Δ n=0.2, K
11=12.9pN, K
33=17.3pN, γ
1=0.134Pas, the border strong anchoring, the pre-dumping angle of two substrates place liquid crystal is respectively 5 ° and 175 ° up and down.
The method for making of high-contrast recited above and the liquid crystal light valve that responds fast, its step is following:
Step 1 etches electrode pattern;
Step 2, oriented layer coating and curing;
Step 3, the oriented layer friction;
Step 4, lower glass substrate spray spherical resin powder, top glass substrate printing envelope frame adhesive;
Step 5, last lower glass substrate are fitted and with the adhesive curing of edge sealing frame;
Step 6, the perfusion liquid crystal material also seals;
Step 7, the glass cleaning surface and two biaxial compensation films of fitting, and the polarizer and analyzer.Obtain this high-contrast and the liquid crystal light valve that responds fast at last.
The present invention compared with prior art has following beneficial effect;
The characteristics of the liquid crystal light valve of the present invention's design are to use the ocb mode liquid crystal box; Ocb mode is owing to liquid crystal molecule on the thickness of liquid crystal layer direction has laterally zygomorphic orientation; So the electrooptics response speed is high, therefore be applied in the requirement that can reach response speed in the liquid crystal light valve; Liquid crystal cell has two biaxial film to compensate in addition, and the position angle of compensate film and polaroid is optimized to improve its contrast.Can reach 1.5ms through the response time of optimizing later ocb mode liquid crystal light valve like this; Maximum-contrast reaches 2200; Contrast is that the zone more than 1000 surpasses 20 ° in the horizontal and vertical directions, and contrast is that zone more than 100 is in the horizontal and vertical directions near 50 °.
Embodiment
The method for making of high-contrast of the present invention and the liquid crystal light valve that responds fast, make according to following steps:
Step 1 etches electrode pattern.
Elder generation's coated feel optical cement on the ITO electro-conductive glass; (lithography mask version is on film, to process the black corresponding with electrode pattern to cover lithography mask version again; The clear area photoresist is reacted) under the effect of light; Shine through ultraviolet light then, the ITO electrode layer is carried out the selective chemical corrosion, thereby on the ITO electro-conductive glass, obtain and the complete graph of a correspondence of mask.
Step 2, oriented layer coating and curing.
On the good ITO electro-conductive glass of etching, be coated with alignment agent (polyamic acid solution), form uniform rete.Preliminary drying makes it volatilization with the heating of the solvent in the oriented material solution then, stays the oriented material rete of solid, solidifies 1~2 hour down at 300~350 ℃ then, and dehydration closed-loop generates polyimide film, has so just formed needed alignment films.
Step 3, the oriented layer friction.
On alignment films with flannelette to a direction friction; Liquid crystal molecule in the liquid crystal layer will be arranged in parallel according to the direction of friction; So just can obtain consistent orientation and the needed inclination angle of this liquid crystal light valve, the pre-dumping angle of two substrates place liquid crystal is respectively 5 ° and 175 ° up and down.
Step 4, it is the spherical resin powder of 4 μ m that lower glass substrate is sprayed diameter, top glass substrate printing envelope frame adhesive and conducting resinl.
On lower glass substrate, spray the spherical resin powder with duster; Form more evenly and distribute; Control the spacing between two glass substrates; Adopt method for printing screen to come silk-screen frame adhesive and conductiving point glue on the top glass substrate, be used for controlling the size of made liquid crystal light valve and the public electrode between the conducting upper and lower base plate.
Step 5, last lower glass substrate are fitted and with the adhesive curing of edge sealing frame.
On the contraposition make-up machine, will go up lower glass substrate and carry out the contraposition applying, and use thermal curing methods about 200 ℃, frame adhesive to be solidified, form the liquid crystal sylphon.
Step 6, the perfusion liquid crystal material also seals.
Sylphon is placed in the liquid crystal filling confined chamber that vacuumizes, and the gas in the box is extracted out by sealing part, makes filling orifice (breach of sealed frame) contact liquid crystal then, liquid crystal material parameter: ε
//=18.6, ε
⊥=3.5, n
o=1.5, Δ n=0.2, K
11=12.9pN, K
33=17.3pN, γ
1=0.134Pas.Utilize capillarity, just can most of volume of sylphon be injected liquid crystal material, to the indoor inert gases such as fully dry argon gas of process and nitrogen that charge into of liquid crystal filling, utilize the pressure of inert gas to make liquid crystal material be full of liquid crystal cell fully again.Adopt that fluid sealant is bonding to seal, through freezing method, let sealing compound shrink rightly to bring into seal in, solidify with UV-irradiation again.
Step 7, glass cleaning surface and fit two biaxial compensation films and two polaroids (being the polarizer and analyzer).
Some sealing compounds, liquid crystal and other dirt removals of liquid crystal cell remained on surface fallen in frictioning and cleaning.Just can fit biaxial compensation film and two polaroids then.The refractive index parameter of biaxial compensation film is: Nx=1.5827, and Ny=1.581, Nz=1.5799, the thickness of two biaxial film are at 49~57 mu m ranges.Polaroid adopts the high-polarization polaroid, the SKN-18243T that Polatechno company produces.Position angle according to biaxial film 1 is-88 °, and the position angle of biaxial film 2 is-88 °, and the position angle of the polarizer is-2 °, and the position angle of analyzer is 88 ° of fit two biaxial compensation films and two polaroids.
Obtain this high-contrast and the liquid crystal light valve that responds fast at last.
It is known technology that above method for making is not stated content, specifically can be with reference to " the liquid crystal device technology basis " of being published by publishing house of Beijing University of Post & Telecommunication, model will is newly write.
The contour structures of the liquid crystal light valve that the present invention makes is as shown in Figure 1, and light rays is through the polarizer 1, first biaxial film 2, liquid crystal cell 3, second biaxial film 4, analyzer 5.The structure of liquid crystal cell is as shown in Figure 2; Outermost layer is a glass substrate 6; The glass substrate inside surface is an electrode 7, is oriented layer 8 more inwards, and inside is that liquid crystal material 9 is arranged along the good direction of oriented layer 8 friction in advance; Two glass substrates 6 rely on envelope frame glue 10 to bond together, and the spherical resin powder 11 of in liquid crystal, placing diameter and be 4 μ m is controlled the thickness of liquid crystal layer.Fig. 3 is that the liquid crystal molecule in the ocb mode liquid crystal box is not powering up, adding low-voltage and increasing the arrangement synoptic diagram under the voltage condition respectively.The not antiparallel arrangement of liquid crystal molecule during making alive is shown in Fig. 3 (a); Be that warp architecture is arranged when adding low-voltage, shown in Fig. 3 (b); Be that arrange on the vertical substrate surface when adding high voltage, shown in Fig. 3 (c).
The thickness of liquid crystal layer is 4 μ m, liquid crystal material (MLC-2136 that Merck company produces) parameter: ε
//=18.6, ε
⊥=3.5, n
o=1.5, Δ n=0.2, K
11=12.9pN, K
33=17.3pN, γ
1=0.134Pas.The border strong anchoring, the pre-dumping angle of two substrates place liquid crystal is respectively 5 ° and 175 ° up and down.The refractive index parameter of biaxial compensation film is: Nx=1.5827, and Ny=1.581, Nz=1.5799, the thickness of two biaxial film are at 49~57 mu m ranges.Two polaroids (being the polarizer and analyzer) all adopt high-polarization polaroid (SKN-18243T that Polatechno company produces).The position angle on liquid crystal layer plane is 45 °, and the position angle of the polarizer 1 is-2 °, and the position angle of analyzer 5 is 88 °, and the position angle of first biaxial film 2 is-88 °, and the position angle of second biaxial film 4 is-88 °.
Add low-voltage U earlier
1=1.2V, liquid crystal molecule are warp architecture and arrange, and this moment, liquid crystal cell was bright attitude, and corresponding transmitance is bright attitude transmitance.Then with low-voltage U
1=1.2V becomes high voltage U
2=14V, liquid crystal molecule arrange perpendicular to orientation substrate gradually, and this moment, the transmitance of liquid crystal cell reduced gradually, and final liquid crystal cell is dark attitude, and corresponding transmitance is dark attitude transmitance.Again with high voltage U
2=14V becomes low-voltage U
1Behind=the 1.2V, because the effect of the elastic force in the liquid crystal layer, liquid crystal molecule can change back to the bend alignment state again gradually, and this moment, the transmitance of liquid crystal cell increased gradually, and final liquid crystal cell shows as bright attitude again.Contrast can be represented with the bright attitude transmitance and the ratio of dark attitude transmitance.The contrast visual angle figure of this liquid crystal light valve can obtain with Mouse-LCD 2.6 software simulations, and is as shown in Figure 4, and curve representes successively that outside in contrast is 1,5,10,100 among the figure, 1000 zone.The result of simulation softward shows that maximum-contrast can reach 2200, and contrast is that the zone more than 1000 surpasses 20 ° in the horizontal and vertical directions, and contrast is that zone more than 100 is in the horizontal and vertical directions near 50 °.To it be the rise time from the timing definition that transmitance peaked 90% drops between 10%; The timing definition that rises between 90% from transmitance peaked 10% is fall time.The summation of rise time and fall time is defined as the response time.The response time figure of this liquid crystal light valve can obtain through analog computation, and is as shown in Figure 5.With low-voltage U
1=1.2V becomes high voltage U
2Behind=the 14V, the transmitance of liquid crystal cell can reduce gradually, shown in curve a.With high voltage U
2=14V becomes low-voltage U
1Behind=the 1.2V, the transmitance of liquid crystal cell increases gradually, shown in curve b.According to the definition of response time, can obtain from Fig. 5: the rise time is about 0.1ms, is about 1.4ms fall time, and overall response time is about 1.5ms, and this liquid crystal light valve satisfies the requirement of high-contrast and fast response liquid crystal light valve.
Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 are that the thickness according to two biaxial film all is that 50 μ m obtain; When thickness other data in 49~57 mu m ranges of two biaxial film obtain etc. contrast visual angle figure constant basically, the description of curve is also satisfied the result of these data among the figure.Response time also is the same.
The present invention does not address part and is applicable to prior art.