Patent ID: 7499135

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising a first alignment substrate having a first substrate, a first electrode layer formed on the first substrate and a first alignment layer formed on the first electrode layer, and a second alignment substrate having a second substrate, a second electrode layer formed on the second substrate, a second alignment layer formed on the second electrode layer, and a reactive liquid crystal layer formed on the second alignment layer, produced by fixing a reactive liquid crystal including a polymerizable liquid crystal material and showing a nematic phase; disposed such that the first alignment layer and the reactive liquid crystal layer face with each other, with a ferroelectric liquid crystal interposed between the first alignment substrate and the second alignment substrate; wherein the second alignment layer has a column structure with a plate-like molecule having a photo dichroism in a visible light range laminated with a normal direction of the plate-like molecule aligned in a certain direction, and it is a columnar alignment layer having an alignment function and a polarizing function.