A Novel Transflective Liquid Crystal Display with a Periodically Patterned Electrode

We propose a novel transflective liquid crystal display (LCD) with a periodically patterned electrode on a substrate. By optimizing the pattern size of the electrodes, the retardations which are required in reflective and transmissive modes are periodically achieved by the same voltage. The region with a small retardation is used as reflective mode and the region with a large retardation as transmissive mode. In the proposed transflective LCD, we can expect a very simple manufacturing process and a high optical performance as complex process such as a multi-cell gap process and multi driving method are not applied.