Transflective liquid crystal display with single cell gap in patterned vertically aligned mode

We propose a novel transflective liquid crystal display (LCD) configuration with a single cell gap in a patterned vertically aligned (PVA) mode. In this work, the optical path difference in a single cell gap is simply compensated by introducing pixel electrode structures between transmissive and reflective parts in a PVA mode. In addition, our transflective LCD was constructed with the same optical configuration such as that of polarizers and retardation films over the whole panel area. The simulated and measured electro-optic characteristics in the transmissive and reflective parts of our novel transflective LCD have shown good agreement with each other over the whole gray scale range.