Response mechanism of a vertical alignment mode driven by fringe-field switching

Abstract

The response mechanism of a vertical alignment mode, driven by a fringe field, is investigated in detail using small-angle approximation. The flow effects can be ignored when using theoretical analysis. The period of the liquid crystal (LC) deformation in the transversal direction, instead of the lognitudinal direction, shows the cell gap effect on the response time in the LC layer's thickness. The authors' analytical results indicate that a liquid crystal display (LCD) mode with a small transversal period could provide a new method that gives a fast response.

Keywords:

• response mechanism
• vertical alignment
• fringe field switching

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr M. Jiao and Professor S. T. Wu of the University of Central Florida for their technical discussion. This research was supported by the Key Subject Construction Project of Hebei Province University and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10704022 and 60736042), P. R. China.