Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 8, Issue 12, 1171(2010)

Viewing angle characteristics of a nematic liquid crystal cell with two crossed-grating surface substrates

Wenjiang Ye1,2, Hongyu Xing1,3,4, Zhi Ren5, Zhidong Zhang1, Yubao Sun1, and Guoying Chen2
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  • 1School of Sciences, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
  • 2School of Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
  • 3Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
  • 4Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 5Department of Mathematics and Physics, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071000, China
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    Liquid crystal in a nematic liquid crystal cell surface with two crossed-grating surface substrates can be oriented along the normal grating direction with given geometric parameters of groove and anchoring strength. This display is equivalent to multi-domain vertical-alignment mode. It has a relatively wide viewing angle. In this letter, we investigate the viewing angle characteristics of this kind of cell. The viewing angle dependence of contrast ratio is obtained using the extended Jones matrix method, which also considers the flexoelectric effect. The viewing angle is dependent on the geometric parameter of grating surface, the flexoelectric coefficients, and the anchoring strength. Therefore, appropriate value for each factor needs to be selected to obtain a better viewing angle of this cell.

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    Wenjiang Ye, Hongyu Xing, Zhi Ren, Zhidong Zhang, Yubao Sun, Guoying Chen. Viewing angle characteristics of a nematic liquid crystal cell with two crossed-grating surface substrates[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(12): 1171

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    Received: Jun. 10, 2010

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Dec. 21, 2010

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20100812.1171

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