Liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same
View Patent ↗The invention relates to a liquid crystal display used as a display section of an electronic apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same, and it is aimed at providing a liquid crystal display which can achieve high viewing angle characteristics and a method of manufacturing the same. A configuration is employed which includes a pair of substrates provided opposite to each other, a liquid crystal sealed between the pair of substrates, protrusions formed on at least one of the pair of substrates for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal, and a plurality of pixel regions having both of a first area in which the protrusions are disposed at first intervals a 2 and which has a first threshold voltage for driving of the liquid crystal and a second area in which the protrusions are disposed at second intervals a 2 smaller than the first intervals and which has a second threshold voltage lower than the first threshold voltage.
1. A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display, comprising the steps of:
fabricating a liquid crystal display panel whose speed of response of a liquid crystal varies depending on parts of a pixel region, by
sealing the liquid crystal mixed with a reactive monomer between two substrates provided opposite to each other;
tilting liquid crystal molecules in part of the pixel region of the liquid crystal display panel utilizing difference in the speed of response of the liquid crystal;
polymerizing the reactive monomer to impart a different pre-tilt angle to the liquid crystal molecules with respect to a surface of one of the substrates in part of the pixel region; and
forming an area having a different threshold voltage in part of each pixel region.
2. A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display according to claim 1 , wherein a liquid crystal display panel having an area with a different cell thickness in part of each pixel region is used as the liquid crystal display panel.
3. A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display according to claim 1 , wherein a liquid crystal display panel having an area with a different initial pre-tilt angle in part of each pixel region is used as the liquid crystal display panel.
4. A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display according to claim 1 , wherein a liquid crystal display panel having an area in which the direction of an electric field is different in part of each pixel region is used as the liquid crystal display panel.
5. A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display, comprising the steps of:
fabricating a liquid crystal display panel whose speed of response of a liquid crystal varies depending on parts of a pixel region, by
sealing the liquid crystal mixed with a reactive monomer between two substrates provided opposite to each other;
tilting liquid crystal molecules in part of the pixel region of the liquid crystal display panel utilizing difference in the speed of response of the liquid crystal;
polymerizing the reactive monomer to impart a different pre-tilt angle to the liquid crystal molecules on a substrate surface in pail of the pixel region; and
forming an area having a different threshold voltage in part of each pixel region,
wherein the step of tilting the liquid crystal molecules in part of the pixel region comprises a step of applying a predetermined voltage that is a repetition of a high voltage and a low voltage to the liquid crystal at a frequency determined based on the speed of response.