Analytic solution of film compensated bistable twisted nematic liquid crystal displays

Author

Zhou, Fushan ; Yang, Deng-Ke

Author_Institution

Chem. Phys. Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State Univ., OH, USA

Volume

1

Issue

2

fYear

2005

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

224

Abstract

In this paper, we studied the optics of transmissive bistable nematic liquid crystal displays by using the Poincare sphere approach. We derived analytical solutions of the polarization state of the outcoming light for the two bistable states. We have found the optimum modes of film compensated bistable twisted nematic liquid crystal displays. Our results show that the number of optimized modes at a fixed wavelength of film-compensated bistable twisted nematic (BTN) is infinite. We identified the optimized modes for displays operated in the whole visible light wavelength region. We calculated the transmission spectra of the two bistable states of the optimized modes.

Keywords

Poincare mapping; light polarisation; liquid crystal displays; nematic liquid crystals; optical bistability; visible spectra; Mueller matrix; Poincare sphere approach; bistable states; bistable twisted nematic liquid crystal displays; film compensation; optimum modes; outcoming light; polarization state; transmission spectra; visible light wavelength region; Boundary conditions; Crosstalk; Equations; Liquid crystal displays; Metastasis; Optical bistability; Optical films; Optical polarization; Optical retarders; Optimization methods; Bistable twisted nematic (BTN); Mueller matrix; display; liquid crystal;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Display Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1551-319X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JDT.2005.858870

Filename

1545784