LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE

摘要

This invention provides a liquid crystal panel which can suppress light leakage at an angle of 45 degrees to an absorption axis of a polarizing plate, has a low black brightness in an oblique direction, and has an improved contrast, and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal panel comprises a liquid crystal cell including a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules, which have been aligned in an homogeneous alignment in such a state that an electric field is absent, a first polarizer provided on one side of the liquid crystal cell, a second polarizer disposed on the other side of the liquid crystal cell, a first anisotropic optical element disposed between the liquid crystal cell and the first polarizer and satisfying nx1 > ny1 > nz1, a second anisotropic optical element disposed between the first anisotropic optical element and the liquid crystal cell and satisfying a relationship of nz2 > nx2 > ny2. The slow phase axis of the first anisotropic optical element is parallel to the slow phase axis of the second anisotropic optical element.