摘要 |
A liquid crystal display device including a reflecting layer, a liquid crystal layer on the reflecting layer and an optical compensation plate on a front surface of the liquid crystal layer. The optical compensation plate has a layer structure including first and second retardation plates and a polarizing plate. The first and second retardation plates have uniaxial anisotropies respectively and both are superposed to create, in a combined manner, functions of a quarter-wave plate and a negative retardation plate. An angle formed between an absorption axis of the polarizing plate and an in-plane retardation of the second retardation plate and an in-plane retardation of the first retardation plate is set to a quarter wavelength. The optical axis of the second retardation plate and an optical axis of said first retardation plate are substantially orthogonal
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