Patent ID: 8111358
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: G02F

Abstract:
1. A display panel comprising: a pair of substrates facing each other; a medium layer being sandwiched between the pair of substrates and wherein no alignment film is provided on the substrates; a plurality of data signal lines and a plurality of scanning signal lines crossing each other; electric field application means for applying an electric field to the medium layer, the electric field application means provided in each pixel arranged at every intersection of the data signal lines and the scanning signal lines; and polarizers respectively provided to the pair of substrates, wherein: the medium layer includes a medium that varies in terms of magnitude of optical anisotropy in response to application of the electric field, wherein the medium of the medium layer shows an optical isotropy when no electric field is applied; the data signal lines are provided so as to be parallel to each other; and the polarizers have absorption axial directions parallel or perpendicular to a direction in which the data signal lines are extended.