Optical: systems and elements – Optical computing without diffraction
Patent
1995-01-09
1996-07-16
Gross, Anita Pellman
Optical: systems and elements
Optical computing without diffraction
359 90, G02F 113
Patent
active
055372376
ABSTRACT:
A ferroelectric liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates on which an electrode is selectively formed on the surface, an insulating film and an orientation film are formed thereon and uniaxial orientation processing is performed and which are arranged so that directions of their uniaxial orientation processing may be almost parallel to each other; a liquid crystal panel which is formed by injecting a liquid crystal having a chiral smectic C phase between the substrates; a driving means for switching an optical axis of the liquid crystal by selectively applying a voltage to the electrode; and a means for optically identifying the switching of the optical axis, in which the liquid crystal shows a chevron structure as a layer structure at the chiral smectic C phase in which a layer structure is doglegged, and an orientation region generated from interaction in the uniaxial orientation processing direction and the layer structure is an inside region surrounded by a lightning defect generated in the uniaxial orientation direction and a hair pin defect generated behind the lightning defect or an outside region surrounded by the hair pin defect generated in the uniaxial orientation direction and a lightning defect generated behind the hair pin defect the liquid crystal can invert to switch an orientation axis near the substrates, and a ratio of an angle .delta. of inclination of a layer of the liquid crystal to the normal to the substrate, to a tilt angle .THETA. is made to be from 0.9 to 1.
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Conlin David G.
Fournier Kevin J.
Gross Anita Pellman
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
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