Patent Application
20210364866
The present invention relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular, to a pixel electrode structure and a display device.
Orientation of liquid crystal molecules is significantly related to liquid crystal efficiency, which is specifically expressed as an inclination angle and a rotational azimuth angle (specifically related to the positive and negative polarities of the liquid crystal molecules). Liquid crystal efficiency refers to the ability of transmit and rotate the direction of incident light so that the light can emit from a polarizer in an emitting direction.
Distribution of a pixel electrode structure is an important design item. In
In conventional art, the sum P of both widths S and L is the same, and a proportional relationship between the L and the S is very subtle. Theoretically, the larger L is, the given vertical electric field is strong, the inclination angle is improved, and the liquid crystal efficiency is higher. However, from simulation results, due to boundary between the branch electrode 102′ and a stem electrode 101′ is affected by a complex electric field, the smaller the L is, the higher the liquid crystal efficiency is, but there is a peak design.
In a whole pixel, a ratio of the width L of the branch electrode 102′ to the width S of the gap 100′ between the branch electrodes 102′ or the sum P of both S and L, remains unchanged, that is, it does not change with different regions. In the liquid crystal efficiency analysis, when an upper and a lower polarizers of a pixel unit are rotated by 45° (the liquid crystal portion which is not ideally deflected is reflected), it is found that orientation states of the liquid crystals at the stem electrodes 101′ in a boundary stem region and at both sides of a data line 2, or at the stem electrode 101′ in a boundary region of the pixel are inconsistent; wherein the liquid crystal molecules at the stem electrode 101′ of a cross stem region are completely collapsed and rotated in a horizontal and vertical direction, and molecular states of the liquid crystal at the stem electrode in the boundary stem region are complicated, except that the azimuth angle of the plane is not disordered, its inclination degree is poor, and the latter accounts for the majority, resulting in a significant decrease in efficiency/transmittance.
In order to solve the above technical problems, the present invention provides a pixel electrode structure and a display device, which changes a partial width L of a branch electrode or a width of a gap S between the branch electrodes, the branch electrode is changed in a proportional relationship between L and S to improve liquid crystal efficiency and transmittance.
A technical solution to solve the above problems is as follows. The present invention provides a pixel electrode structure including a boundary stem region and a branch region; wherein the boundary stem region includes a stem electrode; the branch region includes a plurality of branch electrodes, and the branch electrodes are arranged in parallel with each other and connected to the stem electrode; a gap is formed between two adjacent branch electrodes; the at least one branch electrode includes a first electrode section and a second electrode section, the second electrode section is connected between the first electrode section and the stem electrode; and a width of the first electrode section is less than a width of the second electrode section.
In an embodiment of the invention, a central axis of the first electrode section and a central axis of the second electrode section are staggered and parallel to each other in the same branch electrode.
In an embodiment of the invention, a central axis of the first electrode section coincides with a central axis of the second electrode section in the same branch electrode.
In an embodiment of the invention, a width of a second electrode section of one of the branch electrodes is same as a width of a second electrode section of the other branch electrode in any two different branch electrodes.
In an embodiment of the invention, a width of a second electrode section of one of the branch electrodes is different from a width of a second electrode section of the other branch electrode in any two different branch electrodes.
In an embodiment of the invention, a width of one of the gaps is same as or different from a width of the other gap in any two different gaps.
In an embodiment of the invention, the branch electrode and the stem electrode include an included angle between 30° and 60°.
In an embodiment of the invention, the branch electrode further includes a third electrode section connected between the first electrode section and the second electrode section, the first electrode section has a rectangular cross-section, the second electrode section has a rectangular cross-section, and the third electrode section has a trapezoidal cross-section with a wide upper portion and a narrow lower portion.
In an embodiment of the invention, a difference between a width of the second electrode section and a width of the first electrode section is less than or equal to 2 μm.
The present invention further provides a display device including a pixel electrode structure according to above mentioned pixel electrode structure.
The pixel electrode structure and the display device of the present invention can effectively improve the serious deterioration of the liquid crystal inclination angle and the problems caused thereof such as low actual efficiency or low transmittance of those regions by increasing the width of the branch electrode at the boundary region of the pixel, so as to improve the inclination efficiency and effectively improve the liquid crystal transmittance.
In order to illustrate the technical solutions of the present disclosure or the related art in a clearer manner, the drawings desired for the present disclosure or the related art will be described hereinafter briefly. Obviously, the following drawings merely relate to some embodiments of the present disclosure, and based on these drawings, a person skilled in the art may obtain the other drawings without any creative effort.
The following description of each embodiment, with reference to the accompanying drawings, is used to exemplify specific embodiments which may be carried out in the present invention.
The reference numerals are as follows:
The embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below, and the examples of the embodiments are illustrated in the drawings, wherein the same or similar reference numerals indicate the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are intended to be illustrative of the invention and are not to be construed as limiting.
The following description of the embodiments is intended to be illustrative of the specific embodiments. The directional terms mentioned in the present invention, such as “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “back”, “left”, “right”, “top”, and “bottom”, etc., are only referred to the direction of the additional schema. Therefore, the directional terminology used is for the purpose of illustration and understanding of the invention.
In order to clarify the design points of the present invention more clearly, a pixel electrode structure 1 of the present invention will be described by taking an eight-domain pixel structure as an example.
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The main region 11 and the sub-region 12 each have a pixel electrode, and the pixel electrode includes a boundary stem region 14, a cross stem region 15, and a branch region 16. The boundary stem region 14 surrounds the cross stem region 15, and the branch region 16 is formed between the boundary stem region 14 and the cross stem region 15.
The boundary stem region 14 and the cross stem region 15 each has a stem electrode 101. The branch region 16 has a plurality of branch electrodes 102 therein. The branch electrodes 102 are arranged in parallel with each other and connected to the stem electrode 101. The branch electrode 102 and the stem electrode 101 have an included angle between 30° and 60°, it is preferably 45°.
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In this embodiment, the difference between a width L2 of the second electrode section 1022 and a width L1 of the first electrode section 1021 is less than or equal to 2 μm. The width of the second electrode section 1022 is not excessively large, and is generally controlled within 2 μm, preferably ranges from 1 to 1.5 μm. Furthermore, the gap 100 between the adjacent two branch electrodes 102 need to satisfy the requirement of actual production process, it is required that the gap 100 between adjacent two branch electrodes 102 therefore be of sufficient width, typically greater than 1 μm and less than 3 μm. In the actual fabrication process, a junction between the branch electrode 102 and the stem electrode 101 eventually becomes a relatively smooth boundary due to the passivation effect of an actual etching process, and thus is advantageous for the orientation of the liquid crystal.
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In the present embodiment, in any two different branch electrodes 102, the width of the second electrode section 1022 of one of the branch electrodes is same as the width of the second electrode section of the other branch electrode. In any two different gaps 100, a width of one of the gaps 100 is same as or different from a width of the other gap 100.
Because in a pixel boundary region, especially at both sides of the data line 2 or the gate trace, the liquid crystal molecules are affected by the dissipative electric field and the like, and the inclination state is not as good as a central region of the pixel electrode, that is, the liquid crystal inclination angles are seriously deteriorated, resulting lower actual efficiency or transmittance in those region. Therefore, in order to improve the problem that the liquid crystal efficiency in the pixel boundary region is too low, the width of the branch electrode 102 is increased, and a voltage difference and an electric field are formed with an upper plate to improve the inclination effect. In other words, the objective is achieved by designing to increase the width of the branch electrode 102 at the pixel boundary region.
When the width L2 of the branch electrode 102 connected to the stem electrode 101 at the boundary is increased, the width of the gap 100 between the branch electrodes 102 is changed, that is, the changes of widths S1 and S2. The symmetry axes of the second electrode section 1022 and the first electrode section 1021 can be coincided or staggered, and the widened branch electrodes 102 can be implemented for each branch electrode or a specific number of branch electrodes.
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The present invention further provides a display device 10, referring to
Embodiments of the present invention have been described, but not intended to impose any unduly constraint to the appended claims. For a person skilled in the art, any modification of equivalent structure or equivalent process made according to the disclosure and drawings of the present invention, or any application thereof, directly or indirectly, to other related fields of technique, is considered encompassed in the scope of protection defined by the claims of the present invention.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 201910830381.9 | Sep 2019 | CN | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/CN2019/114179 | 10/30/2019 | WO | 00 |
