ANALYTICAL SIMULATION OF ELECTROOPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF MULTIDOMAIN TWISTED NEMATIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL DISPLAYS

被引:24
作者
SUGIYAMA, T
HASHIMOTO, T
KATOH, K
IIMURA, Y
KOBAYASHI, S
机构
[1] TOKYO UNIV AGR & TECHNOL,FAC TECHNOL,DEPT ELECTR & INFORMAT ENGN,KOGANEI,TOKYO 184,JAPAN
[2] TOKYO UNIV AGR & TECHNOL,GRAD SCH TECHNOL,KOGANEI,TOKYO 184,JAPAN
来源
JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 1-REGULAR PAPERS SHORT NOTES & REVIEW PAPERS | 1995年 / 34卷 / 5A期
关键词
SUPER-MULTIDOMAIN TN-LCD; QUARTERED PIXELS; AMORPHOUS TN-LCD; VIEWING ANGLE CHARACTERISTIC; GRAY-SCALE CAPABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;
D O I
10.1143/JJAP.34.2396
中图分类号
O59 [应用物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
The electrooptical characteristics of multidomain twisted nematic liquid crystal displays (TN-L CDs), such as optical properties, contrast ratio contours, and gray-scale performance, have been investigated by a computer simulation, where the number of domains of each pixel is chosen as 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 120 with the aim of determining the optimum number of domains. It is shown that the TN LCD with quartered pixels exhibits the best results in terms of the viewing angle and gray-scale performance, and furthermore, that more than eight domains gives the same result as for the amorphous TN-LCD that has several thousand domains in each pixel.
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页码:2396 / 2403
页数:8
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