Temperature-dependent behavioral model of pixels in active-matrix liquid crystal displays with fringe-field switching mode

Abstract. This paper proposes a temperature-dependent behavioral circuit model to predict the optical characteristics of an active-matrix liquid crystal display with a fringe-field switching (FFS) mode. The optical responses of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are strongly affected by their ambient temperature. We optimized the time-constant parameters that describe the movement of liquid crystal molecules so that simulated optical responses of FFS LCD provide the best fit to the measured responses over the temperature range of 0 to 50°C. It is found that these time-constant parameters have a linear relationship with the ambient temperature, which enables the prediction of optical responses at any given temperature. The simulation results of the transient responses show an excellent match with the measured results regardless of the ambient temperature.