Patent ID: 7812901

Claim:
A liquid crystal panel, comprising: a liquid crystal cell; a first polarizing plate placed on a viewer side of the liquid crystal cell; a second polarizing plate placed on an opposite side of the liquid crystal cell with respect to the viewer side; and a retardation layer placed between the liquid crystal cell and the second polarizing plate, wherein: the liquid crystal cell contains liquid crystal molecules arranged in a homeotropic alignment; a refractive index ellipsoid of the retardation layer exhibits a relationship of nx≧ny>nz; and a light transmittance (T 2 ) of the second polarizing plate is larger than a light transmittance (T 1 ) of the first polarizing plate; a difference (ΔT 2 −T 1 ) between the light transmittance (T 2 ) of the second polarizing plate and the light transmittance (T 1 ) of the first polarizing plate is 0.1% to 2.0%; and the degree of polarization of the first polarizing plate and the second polarizing plate is 99.8% or more.