Liquid crystal display device with two different pre-tilt angles adjacent on one substrate

A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel, said liquid crystal device comprising:

• first and second substrates;
• a first alignment layer formed on a surface of the first substrate so as to have a first pre-tilt angle;
• a second alignment layer formed on a surface of the second substrate so as to have a second pre-tilt angle which is smaller than said first pre-tilt angle;
• a third alignment layer formed on the surface of the second substrate so as to have a third pre-tilt angle which is greater than said first pre-tilt angle, said second and third alignment layers being arranged on the surface of the second substrate in a neighboring relationship;
• said liquid crystal panel being oriented so as to have a helical structure extending in a predetermined direction by the effect of said pre-tilt angles if nematic liquid crystal material having no twisting power were to be filled in a space between the first and second substrates;
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• nematic liquid crystal material having a twisting power effective to render the liquid crystal panel to be oriented so as to have a helical structure extending in a direction counter to said predetermined direction, said nematic liquid crystal material having the twisting power being filled in the space between the first and second substrates.