Cheap high-speed liquid crystal display panel from Samsung

摘要

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has announced the development of Blue Phase, a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel with a new mode that eliminates the needs for the rubbing process and liquid crystal alignment layers.rnThe Blue Phase LCD panel can be driven at a speed higher than 240 Hz and can be manufactured cheaply, according to Samsung. The company unveiled a 15 inch Blue Phase LCD panel at the Society for Information Display (SID) 2008, which ran during May in Los Angeles, USA.rnThe main feature of the Blue Phase-mode LCD panel is that it requires no liquid crystal alignment layers, unlike twisted nematic (TN), vertical alignment (VA) and in-plane switching (IPS) modes, which are presently pervasive. All of these existing modes require a mechanical alignment process called rubbing, which is composed of a number of steps. The rubbing process is one of the factors that increases the production cost of panels.