| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device with significantly improved gray scale reversal and viewing angle characteristics. <P>SOLUTION: The liquid crystal display device has a pair of substrates, at least one of which has an electrode, placed opposite to each other, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the substrates, a pair of polarizing plates disposed so as to interpose the liquid crystal layer and at least a layer of optically anisotropic layers formed of an oriented liquid crystalline compound between the liquid crystal layer and the pair of polarizing plates. A controlled orientation direction of the liquid crystalline compound of the optically anisotropic layer intersects an absorption axis of the one polarizing plate out of the pair of polarizing plates and a transmission axis of the other polarizing plate, and a twist angle θ of the liquid crystal layer (0<θ≤100°) and a crossed axes angle ϕ between the absorption axes of both of the pair of polarizing plates are made to satisfy an inequality θ≤ϕ. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |
