Reflective liquid crystal display device and reflective liquid crystal display device incorporating touch panel arranged therefrom

A liquid crystal display device, comprising:

• a first substrate having a light reflectibility;
• a second substrate having a light transmissibility;
• a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, the liquid crystal layer being composed of twist-aligned nematic liquid crystal having a dielectric anisotropy;
• and
• at least one optical retardation compensator unit that selectively passes either right handed or left handed substantially circularly polarized light out of a plurality of wavelengths of natural light in the visible spectrum,
• wherein, the at least one optical retardation compensator unit is disposed such that a major surface of the at least one optical retardation compensator unit is on a liquid crystal layer side, and the at least one optical retardation compensator unit has a linear polarizer plate provided adjacent to a side opposite to the major surface, the substantially circularly polarized light exiting the at least one optical retardation compensator unit through the major surface when natural light enters the optical retardation compensator unit, and
• wherein, said incoming substantially circularly polarized light being linearly polarized at a surface of said first substrate in a plurality of directions respectively representative of said plurality of wave lengths of said natural light to thereby create a display.