Liquid crystal display unit
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHisashi Watanabe, Tokio Taguchi
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Abstract
A liquid crystal display device of an embodiment of the present invention includes a liquid crystal layer, a specular reflection layer, the polarization layer disposed on the viewer's side, a retardation layer interposed between the liquid crystal layer and the polarization layer, and a light scattering layer disposed on the viewer's side of the polarization layer. The light scattering layer has a scattering surface. The scattering surface includes a macro uneven structure which has light scatterability and a micro uneven structure which is superimposedly formed over the macro uneven structure and which is smaller than visible light wavelengths.
Claims9
A liquid crystal display device, comprising:
- a liquid crystal layer;
- a first substrate disposed on a viewer's side of the liquid crystal layer;
- a second substrate disposed so as to oppose the first substrate via the liquid crystal layer;
- a specular reflection layer interposed between the liquid crystal layer and the second substrate;
- a pair of electrodes for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer;
- a polarization layer disposed on a viewer's side of the first substrate;
- a retardation layer interposed between the liquid crystal layer and the polarization layer;
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- a light scattering layer disposed on a viewer's side of the polarization layer, the light scattering layer having a scattering surface, the scattering surface including a macro uneven structure which has a light scatterability and a micro uneven structure which is superimposedly formed over the macro uneven structure and which is smaller than visible light wavelengths.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.