LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD AS WELL AS ITS DRIVING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bright liquid crystal display which has a high contrast and excellent visual field angle properties, without requiring complicated process steps and a high degree of technology.

SOLUTION: The electrodes on a first substrate grasping a liquid crystal layer where more than two kinds of microregions coexist are formed in a shape with an excellent symmetry and the electrodes on a second substrate are formed wider than the electrodes on the first substrate to cover the entire part of the upper parts of the electrodes on the first substrate. Columnar spacers exist in the positions close to the symmetric centers of the electrodes on the first substrate, by which the electric field in driving is inclined to the first and second substrates and the orientation of the liquid crystals within one pixel is naturally divided into a plurality of regions. The division is rapidly effected with the columnar spacers as the nuclei for the division and the division boundaries are stabilized, by which the higher speed and wide visual field angle are achieved.

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