Extraordinarily wide-view circular polarizers for liquid crystal displays.
A new broadband wide-view circular polarizer is proposed for high transmittance multi-domain vertical-alignment liquid crystal displays (MVA LCDs). This configuration only requires one biaxial plate in the conventional circular polarizer. The optimal film parameters are obtained analytically through spherical trigonometric method on the Poincaré sphere and through computer-aided parameter search method. According to this design, the high transmittance MVA LCD exhibits a contrast ratio CR 200:1 over approximately 80 degrees viewing cone.
College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA.
Zhibing
Z
Ge
Ruibo
R
Lu
Thomas X
TX
Wu
Shin-Tson
ST
Wu
Chao-Lien
CL
Lin
Nai-Chin
NC
Hsu
Wang-Yang
WY
Li
Chung-Kuang
CK
Wei
D016288:Computer Terminals; D003626:Data Display; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D050866:Liquid Crystals / Q000737:chemistry*; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods