Patent ID: 8094264

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 natural light from the external into linearly polarized light, wherein a unit pixel of the liquid crystal display is divided into first and second regions; a portion of the lower alignment film corresponding to the first region is treated such that it vertically or horizontally aligns liquid crystal molecules in the first region, and a portion of the lower alignment region corresponding to the second region is treated such that it horizontally or vertically aligns liquid crystal molecules in the second region in the opposite manner to the first 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 first region is treated such that it vertically or horizontally aligns liquid crystal molecules in the first region in the opposite manner to the portion of the lower alignment film corresponding to the first region, and a portion of the upper alignment region corresponding to the second region is treated such that it horizontally or vertically aligns liquid crystal molecules in the second region in the opposite manner to the first region, the upper alignment film having an alignment angle of 40 to 50° with respect to a horizontal line; the liquid crystal layer is a HAN-mode liquid crystal layer serving to convert the phase of transmitted light depending on electric field application or no electric field application and has a phase delay value (dΔn) of 0.36-0.40 μm; 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.