Liquid crystal display

摘要

The main object of the present invention is to control the alignment of the ferroelectric liquid crystal by a simple method without the need of an alignment process such as the rubbing process and the photo alignment process in a liquid crystal display using a ferroelectric liquid crystal; to solve better the light scattering generated at the interface between the polarizing plate and the other functional layers compared with the case of separately providing the polarizing plate by the use of an alignment layer having the alignment function of controlling the alignment of the ferroelectric liquid crystal and the polarizing function of changing a non polarized light beam to a linear polarized light beam and thereby restrain the deterioration of the light transmittance, to achieve a thin shape and a light weight of the liquid crystal display. The invention achieves the object by using a columnar alignment layer having a column structure with plate-like molecule having the photo dichroism in the visible light range as one of the alignment layers for controlling the alignment of the ferroelectric liquid crystal and forming a reactive liquid crystal layer produced by fixing a reactive liquid crystal including a polymerizable liquid crystal material on the side to be contacted with the ferroelectric liquid crystal on the columnar alignment layer, showing the nematic phase on the columnar alignment layer.