Patent ID: 8094265

Claim:
A liquid crystal display which comprises: a lower substrate having a reflective electrode; a lower alignment film formed on the lower substrate; an upper substrate having a color filter and disposed opposite to the lower substrate; an upper alignment film formed on the upper substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the lower and upper substrates; a phase compensation film adhered on the outer surface of the upper substrate and serving to convert linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light; and a polarizer adhered on the phase compensation film and serving to convert incident light into linearly polarized light, wherein a unit pixel of the liquid crystal display is divided into a transmission region and a reflection region having the reflective electrode; a portion of the lower alignment film corresponding to the reflection region is treated such that it vertically or horizontally aligns liquid crystal molecules in the reflection region, and a portion of the lower alignment region corresponding to the transmission region is treated such that it horizontally or vertically aligns liquid crystal molecules in the transmission region in the opposite manner to the reflection region, the lower alignment film having an alignment angle of −40 to −50° with respect to a horizontal line; a portion of the upper alignment film corresponding to the reflection region is treated such that it vertically or horizontally aligns liquid crystal molecules in the reflection region in the opposite manner to the portion of the lower alignment film corresponding to the reflection region, and a portion of the upper alignment region corresponding to the transmission region is treated such that it horizontally or vertically aligns liquid crystal molecules in the transmission region in the opposite manner to the reflective region, the upper alignment film having an alignment angle of 40 to 50° with respect to a horizontal line; a portion of the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the reflection region is made of a HAN-mode liquid crystal layer, and a portion of the liquid crystal region corresponding to the transmission region is made of a TN mode liquid crystal layer; the phase compensation film has a phase compensation function of λ/4 and also has an optical axis making an angle of 167 to 173° with a horizontal line; and the polarizer has a transmission axis making an angle of 42 to 48° with a horizontal line.