Patent ID: 7589815

Claim:
A liquid crystal display comprising: a lower substrate having a pixel electrode; an upper substrate positioned apart from the lower substrate and having an opposite surface facing the lower substrate and a counter electrode disposed on the opposite surface; a polymer spacer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate and comprising a soft polymer; and an Optically Compensated Bend (OCB) mode liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, wherein the polymer spacer has a length in a horizontal axis direction extending parallel to the opposite surface and a width in a vertical axis direction extending perpendicular to the opposite surface, and wherein the length is greater than the width, and wherein the polymer spacer comprises a plurality of polymer chains, and wherein the polymer spacer is configured to increase a ratio of the polymer chains in the vertical axis direction to apply an anchoring energy to tilt liquid crystal molecules of the OCB mode liquid crystal layer disposed around the polymer spacer to substantially have a tilt angle of 90°.