Patent ID: 8049841

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first transparent plate having a first polarizer; a second transparent plate having a second polarizer and disposed opposite to the first transparent plate; a liquid crystal layer hermetically sealed and interposed between the first transparent plate and the second transparent plate, for constituting plural pixels; first and second electrodes for driving the liquid crystal layer; light transmission sections, each being formed corresponding to at least a part of the pixel; wherein the first polarizer is a wire grid polarizer, and a light absorbing layer for absorbing TE-polarized light is provided on a surface of the wire grid polarizer which faces the liquid crystal layer; wherein the light absorbing layer includes a plurality of stacked pairs of a dielectric wire layer and a metal wire layer which absorbs light vertically stacked on the surface of the wire grid polarizer; and wherein a width of each wire of the wire grid polarizer is not more than 50% of a repetition interval of the wire grid polarizer.