Papers by Author: Zi Qiang Huang

Abstract: This research is to develop a black-white liquid crystal adjustable grating using the period distributed electronic field pulsing on guest-host liquid crystal. The transmission properties of parallel or twisted-alignment liquid crystal cells have been investigated by means of numerical simulating and experiencing the guest-host liquid crystal cells, and analyze how the parameters of the LC cell effects such basic characteristics of LCDs as the contrast, brightness and polarity of the viewing angles. The result is the alignment impact on the transmittance of the liquid crystal cell. A good agreement between the experimental result and the calculated data was achieved.

Abstract: There is a desire for a display technology which can change the display viewing angle. Controllable Viewing Angle (CVA) device has been developed by using a Guest-Host liquid crystal cell which allows a high light-shielding effect and the control with a wide range of available viewing angle. By putting the CVA device on a Thin-Film Transistor ( TFT ) Liquid-Crystal Panel, or placing a Guest-Host Liquid Crystal (GHLC) device between the LED and the backlight, we have realized a simple controllable viewing-angle LCD which could be switched in the narrow and normal(wide) viewing angle. The viewing angle can decrease to 40° when power is on but it also can shift to normal viewing angle when power is off.

Abstract: Active matrices often related with high grade display devices, due to application of the storage elements, typically thin film transistor (TFT). Because of the complex procedures in the manufacturing TFT, investment of the high value manufacturing equipments and clarification plants is necessary, hence increasing the manufacturing cost of the flat panel, and more importantly, causing the pollution of water and air. As the contribution of TFT array merely exists in supplying storage function for the pixels of the display panel, large efforts have been made to find suitable cells that have bistable effect, so as to substitute the effect of TFT. As the bistable cell is just the storage pixel, one could construct a bistable cell to skip the needs of TFT active matrices. The paper is to introduce currently available bistable display devices in the following field: liquid crystal bistable displays with cholesteric liquid crystals, which is an example to introduce the bistable technology; iMod display devices based on mechanic induced bistable and light interference, which shows the possibility to construct bistable display; and the display based on solid powder movement in air or in vacuum, so called liquid powder displays, which shows how to improve the existed display.