Analysis of compensation principle for wide viewing angle characteristics of an OCB cell by the $Poincar\acute{e}$ sphere representation

  • Lee, Seong-Ryong (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Yoon, Tae-Hoon (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Chang (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • Published : 2006.08.22

Abstract

In this paper, we study how the viewing angle characteristics of a bend cell can be compensated by uniaxial films such as positive a-plate, negative c-plate and circular polarizer. Especially, it is confirmed how the circular polarizer composed of a quarter-wave plate and a linear polarizer enhances the viewing angle characteristics by the $Poincar\acute{e}$ sphere representation. Also, additional compensation film is designed to improve the viewing angle characteristics of the cell by the $Poincar\acute{e}$ sphere representation.

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