US20040165128A1 - Vertically aligned nematic mode liquid crystal display having large tilt angles and high contrast - Google Patents

Vertically aligned nematic mode liquid crystal display having large tilt angles and high contrast Download PDF

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US20040165128A1
US20040165128A1 US10/438,511 US43851103A US2004165128A1 US 20040165128 A1 US20040165128 A1 US 20040165128A1 US 43851103 A US43851103 A US 43851103A US 2004165128 A1 US2004165128 A1 US 2004165128A1
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  • the present invention relates generally to liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and more particularly to reflective liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) displays.
  • LCDs liquid crystal displays
  • LCOS reflective liquid crystal on silicon
  • Liquid crystal display technology has reduced the size of displays from full screen sizes to minidisplays of less than 1.3 inches diagonal measurement, to microdisplays that require a magnification system.
  • Microdisplays may be manufactured using semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) dynamic random access memory (DRAM) process technologies, e.g., liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS).
  • IC semiconductor integrated circuit
  • DRAM dynamic random access memory
  • the LCOS microdisplays consist of a silicon substrate backplane with a reflective surface, a cover glass and an intervening liquid crystal layer.
  • the LCOS microdisplays are arranged as a matrix of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, wherein an intersection of a row and a column defines a position of a pixel in the matrix. To incident light, each pixel is a liquid crystal cell above a reflecting mirror.
  • the silicon backplane is an array of pixels, typically 7 to 20 micrometers ( ⁇ m) in pitch. Each pixel has a mirrored surface that occupies most of the pixel area.
  • the mirrored surface is also an electrical conductor that forms a pixel capacitor with the liquid crystal display cover glass electrode which is a transparent conductive coating on the inside face (liquid crystal side) of the cover glass. This transparent conductive coating is typically Indium Tin Oxide (ITO).
  • ITO Indium Tin Oxide
  • the reflective LCOS microdisplays have a high aperture ratio, and therefore can provide greater brightness than transmissive liquid crystal displays.
  • Major applications of these LCOS microdisplays are in home theater applications, e.g., projectors, and front and rear projection televisions (large screen). For these applications, high contrast is very important. High contrast depends upon the liquid crystal optical mode being used in the liquid crystal display. Typically, a Vertically Aligned Nematic (VAN) mode is one of the optical modes that can achieve a very high contrast and many liquid crystal display manufacturers are beginning to use this particular optical mode in their displays.
  • VAN Vertically Aligned Nematic
  • the pretilt angle is defined as the tilt angle of the liquid crystal director at the boundary surface.
  • the pretilt angle is small, so the orientation of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid are nearly perpendicular to the substrate surfaces when there is no electric field applied across the display. Therefore, incoming linearly polarized light, perpendicular to the display substrates, sees a small birefringence as it passes through the layer. Hence this normally incident linearly polarized light experiences little phase retardation when going through the liquid crystal fluid, including being reflected back from the bottom reflective substrate of the display. This provides a very dark “OFF” state when using crossed polarizers (e.g., polarizing beam splitter—PBS), thus very high contrast is achieved.
  • crossed polarizers e.g., polarizing beam splitter—PBS
  • the orientations of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid at the substrate surfaces are defined by the alignment layers on each of the substrate surfaces. This orientation is described by a pretilt angle and a surface azimuthal direction, which is parallel to the projection of the liquid crystal director onto the plane of the substrate.
  • the azimuthal direction of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid proximate to the top alignment layer is opposite to the azimuthal direction of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid proximate to the bottom alignment layer, i.e., anti-parallel.
  • the azimuthal directions defined by the alignment layers are at a 45 degree angle with the direction of polarization of the incoming linearly polarized incident light, as shown in FIGS. 1 a and 1 b .
  • the pretilt angle of the molecules in a VAN mode display needs to be kept small, e.g., less than 4 degrees, to achieve a very dark “OFF” state, hence the high contrast.
  • this pretilt angle is large enough to prevent reverse tilt domains in the display, it is not possible to overcome the defects that occur due to fringe fields between neighboring pixels. Fringe fields become very significant when the pixel size becomes small as is typical in LCOS microdisplays.
  • the size of an LCOS microdisplay may measure one inch diagonally and have a pixel size of approximately 12 ⁇ m ⁇ 12 ⁇ m.
  • pixel size may be further reduced to approximately 9 ⁇ m ⁇ 9 ⁇ m or even smaller.
  • the present invention overcomes the above-identified problems as well as other shortcomings and deficiencies of existing technologies by providing a system, method and apparatus having pretilt angles sufficient to overcome disclinations due to fringe fields, and, at the same time, achieving high contrast.
  • the surface azimuthal direction is 45 degrees to the direction of polarization of incoming linearly polarized incident light. Therefore, there is an effective birefringence as seen by the incoming incident light and it increases with increasing pretilt angle, hence the amount of light leakage.
  • the display shown in FIG. 1 a is rotated by 45 degrees with respect to the polarization direction of the incident linearly polarized light, i.e., the surface azimuthal direction of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid is either parallel or perpendicular to the direction of polarization of incoming incident linearly polarized light, then the light leakage is minimum because the effective birefringence as seen by the incoming incident linearly polarized light is zero and does not depend on the pretilt of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid.
  • this configuration cannot be applied to practical applications because the “ON” state is not bright due to the same reason explained above.
  • the effective birefringence as seen by the incoming incident linearly polarized light is minimal as compared to a VAN structure where all molecules have the same tilt angle and their surface azimuthal directions are all oriented at 45 degrees with respect to the polarization direction of the incoming linearly polarized light. Therefore, in the present invention, the light leakage is very small even though the pretilt angle is large enough to remove the disclinations due to fringe fields.
  • optical mode of the present invention takes place when in the “ON” state.
  • the invention behaves differently from a conventional 90 degree twisted nematic (TN) mode, and the invention gives a very good bright state as is desired in liquid crystal display applications using a PBS.
  • TN twisted nematic
  • the linear polarized light is “guided” by the twisted structure, both in going in and coming out of the layer, which would give a dark state with a PBS.
  • the bright “ON” state is achieved without having to add chiral dopant in the liquid crystal fluid of the display.
  • the present invention does not behave as a VAN mode display in the “OFF” state.
  • the present invention produces a much darker state than that of a regular VAN mode display with the same pretilt angle. Therefore, the present invention is neither a VAN nor a conventional 90 degree twisted nematic mode display.
  • a gray scale e.g., a light intensity through the polarizer that is intermediate to the “ON” and “OFF” intensities may be obtained by controlling the voltage that is applied across the liquid crystal layer.
  • a crossed-polarizer (or PBS) configuration increasing the voltage increases the light passing to the output up to a certain optimum bright-state voltage.
  • the value of this optimum bright state voltage depends upon the liquid crystal material parameters, the cell gap, the pretilt and the light wavelength range of interest. This voltage can be determined experimentally.
  • perceived gray scale can be controlled by controlling the time that the liquid crystal display is in the “ON” state and the time in the “OFF” state.
  • color may be generated with methods known in the art such as color filters, use of three displays each for one color in a three-panel system, or with one microdisplay in a field sequential color (FSC) system.
  • FSC field sequential color
  • the thickness (d) of the liquid crystal fluid may be, for example, about 3.5 ⁇ m+/ ⁇ 0.2 ⁇ m.
  • the birefringence ( ⁇ n) may be, for example, about 0.0830 at 45° C.
  • any liquid crystal fluids developed for VAN displays may be used in the present invention. According to the present invention, it is not necessary to introduce a chiral dopant into the liquid crystal fluid.
  • Typical liquid crystal fluids are for example but not limited to: MLC-6608, MLC-6609 and MLC-6610 manufactured by Merck.
  • a physical property of liquid crystal materials used for VAN displays is negative dielectric anisotropy, i.e., the perpendicular component of the dielectric constant is larger than that of the parallel component. Therefore, with an applied electric field, the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid will arrange themselves perpendicular to the direction of the electric field.
  • Birefringence may range from about 0.0777 to about 0.0996
  • the nematic to isotropic phase transition temperature may be above 80° C.
  • a technical advantage of the present invention is that with this optical mode it is possible to have a much darker “OFF” state, hence high contrast, even with a relatively high pretilt angle compared to the VAN mode display with the same pretilt angle. Because of the high pretilt angle substantially no disclination defects will occur due to the fringe fields across the neighboring pixels at the pixel boundaries. Another technical advantage is that external retarders are not necessary to block the light leakage because of the very good dark state of the present invention.
  • Some optical architectures do not require skew ray compensation.
  • An example of this type of architecture are those where a wire-grid polarizing beamsplitter is used to separate input and output beam paths.
  • wire-grid beamsplitters are manufactured by Moxtek Inc., of Orem, Utah. Therefore, for such applications the present invention is advantageous since the extra cost of attaching external retarders can be eliminated.
  • the present invention is directed to a reflective liquid crystal display, comprising: a first substrate that is substantially transparent; a second substrate that is substantially reflective and substantially parallel with said first substrate; and a liquid crystal fluid having a birefringence ( ⁇ n) and a negative dielectric anisotropy, wherein said liquid crystal fluid is between said first and second substrates; said first substrate having a first liquid crystal alignment layer proximate to said liquid crystal fluid, wherein molecules of said liquid crystal fluid that are proximate to the first liquid crystal alignment layer have a first pretilt angle from about 2 degrees to about 15 degrees and a first azimuthal direction; said second substrate having a second liquid crystal alignment layer proximate to said liquid crystal fluid, wherein molecules of said liquid crystal fluid that are proximate to the second liquid crystal alignment layer have a second pretilt angle from about 2 degrees to about 15 degrees and a second azimuthal direction, the second azimuthal direction being substantially perpendicular to the first azimuthal direction.
  • the polarization direction of the linearly polarized incident light may be approximately parallel with the first surface azimuthal direction.
  • the polarization direction of the linearly polarized incident light may be approximately perpendicular with the first surface azimuthal direction.
  • Shades of gray may be produced by varying the electric field between said first and second substrates from substantially no electric field to an electric field having an optimum value.
  • the present invention is also directed to a reflective liquid crystal display, comprising: a first substrate that is substantially transparent; a second substrate that is substantially reflective and substantially parallel with said first substrate; and a liquid crystal fluid having a birefringence ( ⁇ n) and a negative dielectric anisotropy, wherein said liquid crystal fluid is between said first and second substrates; said first substrate having a first liquid crystal alignment layer proximate to said liquid crystal fluid, wherein molecules of said liquid crystal fluid that are proximate to the first liquid crystal alignment layer have a first pretilt angle from about 2 degrees to about 15 degrees and a first azimuthal direction; said second substrate having a second liquid crystal alignment layer proximate to said liquid crystal fluid, wherein molecules of said liquid crystal fluid that are proximate to the second liquid crystal alignment have a second pretilt angle from about 2 degrees to about 15 degrees and a second azimuthal direction, the second azimuthal direction being substantially perpendicular to the first azimuthal direction; wherein: when an electric field is applied between said
  • the electric field may be applied between said first and second substrates for a plurality of first times and substantially no electric field may be applied for a plurality of second times, wherein the first and second times may be varied to produce shades of gray.
  • the first and second times may also be varied to produce field sequential colors.
  • the present invention is directed to a method for a reflective liquid crystal display, said method comprising the steps of: providing a first substrate that is substantially transparent; providing a second substrate that is substantially reflective and substantially parallel with said first substrate; and providing a liquid crystal fluid having a birefringence ( ⁇ n) and a negative dielectric anisotropy between said first and second substrates; providing a first liquid crystal alignment layer on said first substrate, said first liquid crystal alignment layer being proximate to said liquid crystal fluid, wherein molecules of said liquid crystal fluid that are proximate to the first liquid crystal alignment layer have a first pretilt angle from about 2 degrees to about 15 degrees and a first azimuthal direction; providing a second liquid crystal alignment layer on said second substrate, said second liquid crystal alignment layer being proximate to said liquid crystal fluid, wherein molecules of said liquid crystal fluid that are proximate to the second liquid crystal alignment layer have a second pretilt angle from about 2 degrees to about 15 degrees and a second azimuthal direction, the second azimuthal direction being substantially per
  • Varying the electric field between said first and second substrates may be used to produce shades of gray by causing the polarization state of the incident light at said second substrate to vary from approximately linear polarization to elliptical polarization, and when there is substantially no electric field the polarization of the incident light at said second substrate is approximately linear.
  • the present invention is also directed to a method for a reflective liquid crystal display, said method comprising the steps of: providing a first substrate that is substantially transparent; providing a second substrate that is substantially reflective and substantially parallel with said first substrate; and providing a liquid crystal fluid having a birefringence ( ⁇ n) and a negative dielectric anisotropy, wherein said liquid crystal fluid is between said first and second substrates; providing a first liquid crystal alignment layer on said first substrate, said first liquid crystal alignment layer being proximate to said liquid crystal fluid, wherein molecules of said liquid crystal fluid that are proximate to the first liquid crystal alignment layer have a first pretilt angle from about 2 degrees to about 15 degrees and a first azimuthal direction; providing a second liquid crystal alignment layer on said second substrate, said second liquid crystal alignment layer being proximate to said liquid crystal fluid, wherein molecules of said liquid crystal fluid that are proximate to the second liquid crystal alignment layer have a second pretilt angle from about 2 degrees to about 15 degrees and a second azimuthal direction,
  • the present invention is also directed to a reflective liquid crystal display assembly comprising: a first substantially transparent substrate; a second substantially reflective substrate located substantially parallel to said first substrate; a liquid crystal fluid having a birefringence ( ⁇ n) and a negative dielectric anisotropy, wherein said liquid crystal fluid is between said first and second substrates; first and second liquid crystal alignment layers on said first and second substrates, respectively, wherein molecules of said fluid proximate the first and second liquid crystal alignment layers have finite pretilt angles and are oriented in first and second azimuthal directions, respectively; wherein the assembly is configured such that (i) when substantially no electric field is applied between the substrates, a substantial number of fluid molecules are oriented substantially perpendicular to said substrates, (ii) when an electrical field of optimum value is applied between the substrates, tilt angles of a substantial number of fluid molecules increase, and (iii) when a less than optimum electric field is applied between said substrates, a substantial number of fluid molecules are oriented at intermediate tilt angles.
  • FIGS. 1 a and 1 b are schematic representations of a prior art VAN mode liquid crystal display in the “OFF” and “ON” states, respectively;
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic elevational view of a portion of the liquid crystal display showing the azimuthal direction and pretilt angles of an exemplary molecule in a liquid crystal fluid;
  • FIGS. 3 a and 3 b are schematic representations of a liquid crystal display in the “OFF” and “ON” states, respectively, according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a collection of graphical representations of the tilt angles and azimuthal angles of liquid crystal fluid molecules as a function of the molecules' locations between the substrates in “OFF,” and “ON” states, according to the present invention.
  • the present invention is directed to a reflective liquid crystal microdisplay comprising a matrix of pixels of a liquid crystal fluid having light modifying properties controlled by voltage values stored in capacitors comprising the areas representing the pixels in the matrix of pixels of the liquid crystal microdisplay.
  • the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid have a surface azimuthal direction that is either approximately parallel or perpendicular to the direction of polarization of incoming incident linearly polarized light.
  • the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid when in the “OFF” state (no electric field across the pixel capacitors), the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid have pretilt angles (measured from the perpendicular directions of the faces of the substrates) just sufficient to minimize disclinations due to fringe fields.
  • the azimuthal direction of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid at the transparent substrate is at approximately 90 degrees from the azimuthal direction of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid at the reflective substrate. This configuration results in a very dark state when in the “OFF” state, resulting in high contrast.
  • FIGS. 1 a and 1 b depicted are schematic representations of a prior art VAN mode liquid crystal display in the “OFF” and “ON” states, respectively.
  • the azimuthal direction of the liquid crystal molecules defined by the alignment layers on the substrate surfaces 102 , 104 are anti-parallel to each other, and are at a 45 degree angle with the direction of polarization of incoming incident linearly polarized light.
  • the pretilt angle ⁇ needs to be kept small, e.g., less than 4 degrees, to achieve a very dark “OFF” state, hence high contrast.
  • FIG. 2 depicted is a schematic elevational view of a portion of a liquid crystal display showing the azimuthal direction angle ( ⁇ ) and tilt angle ( ⁇ ) of an exemplary molecule in a liquid crystal fluid.
  • a glass (transparent) substrate 202 and a reflective (mirror) substrate 204 are parallel and have liquid crystal fluid, generally represented by the numeral 206 , therebetween.
  • the distance (thickness of liquid crystal fluid) between these parallel substrates is generally represented by “d.”
  • the distance (thickness), d preferably may be about 3.5 ⁇ m+/ ⁇ 0.2 ⁇ m.
  • the liquid crystal fluid 206 preferably may have a birefringence ( ⁇ n) of about 0.0830 at 45° C.
  • the optimum bright state voltage is approximately 4.0V for Red (640 nm), 3.5V for Green (540 nm) and 3.15V for Blue (470 nm).
  • a single molecule 206 a of the liquid crystal fluid 206 is shown for exemplary purposes.
  • the tilt angle ⁇ is measured from the Z-axis which is perpendicular to the substrates 202 and 204 .
  • the azimuthal angle ⁇ is measured from the X-axis in the XY plane and is the angle between the X axis and the projection of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid 206 on the XY plane.
  • polarization direction of the linearly polarized incident light at the glass substrate will be either approximately parallel or perpendicular to the azimuthal direction generated at the glass substrate 202 .
  • FIG. 3 a depicted is a schematic representation of a liquid crystal display in the “OFF” state, according to the present invention.
  • the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid 206 are depicted in the “OFF” state wherein the pretilt angle ⁇ (defined above) is only large enough to remove disclinations due to fringe fields.
  • the pretilt angle ⁇ may be from about 2 degrees to about 15 degrees.
  • the pretilt angle ⁇ may be from about 5 degrees to about 15 degrees.
  • the polarization state of the incident light 308 will not be affected substantially by the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid 206 and will be reflected back from the substrate 204 as substantially linearly polarized light with the polarization direction substantially parallel with that of the incident linearly polarized light.
  • FIG. 3 b depicted is a schematic representation of a liquid crystal display in the “ON” state, according to the present invention.
  • the configuration of the liquid crystal fluid 206 formed under optimum voltage drive, will cause the linearly polarized incident light entering the substrate 202 to become approximately circularly polarized light at the substrate 204 .
  • the approximately circularly polarized incident light at the substrate 204 will be reflected back as approximately circularly polarized light, but with opposite handedness, and when it reaches the substrate 202 , this reflected light will be approximately linearly polarized with a polarization direction approximately perpendicular to that of the linearly polarized incident light.
  • FIG. 4 depicted are graphical representations of the tilt angles and azimuthal angles of molecules of the liquid crystal fluid 206 as a function of the location of these molecules located between the substrates in “OFF” and “ON” states, according to the present invention.
  • Tilt angle ⁇ is depicted on the left vertical axis from 0 to 90 degrees
  • the azimuthal angle ⁇ is depicted on the right vertical axis from 0 to 90 degrees.
  • the locations of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid 206 between the substrates 202 and 204 are depicted on the horizontal axis from 0 to d.
  • Curve 402 depicts the tilt angle ⁇ of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid 206 when they are in the “OFF” state.
  • Curve 404 depicts the azimuthal angle ⁇ of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid 206 when they in the “OFF” state.
  • Curve 410 depicts the tilt angle ⁇ of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid 206 when they are in the “ON” state.
  • Curve 412 depicts the azimuthal angle ⁇ of the molecules of the liquid crystal fluid 206 when they are in the “ON” state. Corresponding tilt curves for an intermediate gray shade would fall between curves 402 and 410 and azimuthal curves would fall between curves 404 and 412 .

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