Patent ID: 7400371
Filing Date: 2008-07-15
Classification: G02B,G02F

Abstract:
1. A liquid crystal display comprising: a liquid crystal cell comprising a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer which is sandwiched between said pair of substrates and oriented substantially in parallel with said substrates in regions near said substrates in the absence of an applied voltage, a first polarizing plate arranged outside one of said substrates of the liquid crystal cell, a second polarizing plate arranged outside the other of said substrates of the liquid crystal cell, and at least one retardation plate placed between either one of said substrates and said polarizing plate arranged outside said substrate, wherein said at least one retardation plate has a negative uniaxiality and an optical axis in a plane direction thereof, and wherein a Nz coefficient represented by is from −1.0 to +0.2 where n said at least one retardation plate has an in-plane retardation of 80 to 250 nm and is arranged such that the retarded phase axis thereof is in parallel with a transmission axis of the polarizing plate adjacent to said retardation plate and also with the major axis of liquid crystal molecules present on the surface of the cell substrate adjacent to said retardation plate.