Patent ID: 7307678

Claim:
A liquid crystal display, comprising: a liquid crystal injected between upper and lower plates maintains a monostable state, wherein the upper and lower plates have electrodes respectively formed thereon; an upper alignment film formed on the upper plate; and a lower alignment film formed on the lower plate, wherein only one of the alignment films on the upper plate and the lower plate is aligned to determine an incipient alignment direction of the liquid crystal; and polarizers mounted on external surfaces of the upper and lower plates respectively, wherein a tilted long axis of the liquid crystal is coincident with a transmission axis of at least one of the polarizers, wherein the transmissive axis of at least one of the polarizers is at angle within a range of 9 to 10 degrees with respect to an alignment direction of the aligned one of the upper and lower alignment films, and the liquid crystal is a ferroelectric liquid crystal of Half V-Switching mode.