The Static Electricity Resistant Liquid Crystal Display Driven by Fringe Electric Field

In this paper, we propose the static electricity resistant liquid crystal display (LCD) driven by fringe electric field. In the device, the conductive Cr metal playing role as black matrix (BM) in the top glass substrate is connected to the common electrode on the bottom substrate by the Ag transfer dotting. In addition, the common electrode also contacts to border chassis, allowing it to serve as the path for discharging the static charge generated on the top glass surface when peeling off the protective layer of the polarizer. Therefore, the electrostatic charges near BM or in the active region move fast enough to the CrBM for neutralization, while keeping the display in the neutral state electrically. The proposed LCD utilizes a liquid crystal mixture with negative dielectric anisotropy, allowing the device to be in much stable state against noise field generated by CrBM or external electrostatic discharge (ESD). We expect that this proposed structure is suitable to electrostatic resistant fringe-field switching (FFS)-LCD with a high image quality. (C) 2012 The Japan Society of Applied Physics