Liquid crystal display device and method for fabricating the same
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsWataru Horie, Takayoshi Nagayasu, Toshio Fujii
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Abstract
The liquid crystal display device of this invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and the second substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a polymer region and a liquid crystal domain surrounded by the polymer region in which liquid crystal molecules are oriented in an axial symmetrical manner, the first substrate includes a dry film having a concave portion on a surface facing the liquid crystal layer, and a symmetric axis in the liquid crystal domain substantially extends through the concave portion and is substantially perpendicular to the first substrate.
Claims1
A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing first and second substrates,
- providing a mask including both a light shading portion and a light reducing portion;
- forming a dry film on the first substrate;
- positioning the mask over the dry film and utilizing the light reducing portion of the mask in order to form a concave portion in the dry film without creating an aperture in the dry film at the concave portion;
- providing a liquid crystal material between the first and second substrates wherein liquid crystal molecules are oriented in an axial symmetrical manner;
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- providing a liquid crystal domain in a manner such that a symmetric axis of the liquid crystal domain extends through the concave portion and is substantially perpendicular to the first substrate.
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