An array substrate, a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device are provided. The array substrate comprises multiple pixel units, where at least one of the pixel units comprises a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode, the first subpixel electrode is electrically connected to a first charging thin-film transistor, and the second subpixel electrode is electrically connected to a second charging thin-film transistor. In same one pixel unit, the charging capacity of the second charging thin-film transistor is greater than the charging capacity of the first charging thin-film transistor.

The present invention provides a liquid crystal alignment method and a liquid crystal display panel. The method comprises the steps of: coating a first alignment material layer on a TFT substrate, the first alignment material layer having a plurality of first regions; coating a second alignment material layer on a CF substrate, the second alignment material layer having a plurality of second regions; and utilizing the length of each first region along the row direction as an exposing width and performing an exposing alignment procedure with the exposing width to each first region to form a first alignment layer at the side of the TFT substrate.

A cured-film formation composition that includes: (A) one or more compounds having a photo-aligning group and hydroxy group, etc.; (B) a polymer having at least one substituent from the group of a hydroxy group, carboxy group, amino group, and alkoxysilyl group, and the like; and (C) a cross-linking agent. Component (A) contains a compound having a group of Formula [1] below as the photo-aligning group: ##STR00001##
where A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 are independently a hydrogen atom or methyl group; and A.sup.3 is a hydroxy group. A cured-film is formed from the cured-film formation composition, and orientation material is formed by use of photo-alignment technique. A retardation material is obtained by applying a polymerizable liquid crystal on the orientation material and curing it.

A liquid crystal display apparatus includes first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer of vertical alignment type. The first substrate includes pixel electrodes and a first alignment film, whereas the second substrate includes a counter electrode and a second alignment film. Each pixel includes first and second subpixels which allow respectively different voltages to be applied across the liquid crystal layer. Each pixel electrode includes a subpixel electrode provided for each of the first and second subpixels. Each of the first and second subpixels includes first to fourth liquid crystal domains having respectively different reference alignment directions being defined by the first and second alignment films. First to fourth directions, which are the reference alignment directions of the first to fourth liquid crystal domains, each make an angle which is substantially equal to an odd multiple of 45° with respect to the pixel transverse direction.

A liquid crystal display device includes pixels, each including a pixel electrode including first and second stem electrodes, which extend in a first direction and are spaced apart from each other, a third stem electrode, which extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and intersects the first and second stem electrodes, a first edge electrode, which extends in the second direction and intersects first ends of the first and second stem electrodes, a second edge electrode, which extends in the second direction and intersects second ends of the first and second stem electrodes, and branch electrodes, which extend from the first, second, and third stem electrodes in a direction which is different from the first and second directions where a boundary line is defined between the first and second stem electrode.

An array substrate, a manufacturing method and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The array substrate includes first subpixels and second subpixels arranged in rows and columns, each first subpixel includes a first pixel electrode provided with a plurality of first slits arranged parallel to each other, each second subpixel includes a second pixel electrode provided with a plurality of second slits arranged parallel to each other, each first slit is angled at a first tilt angle relative to a reference direction, each second slit is angled at a second tilt angle relative to the reference direction, the first tilt angle is supplementary to the second tilt angle, and the reference direction is an extension direction of each gate line of the array substrate. At least one first subpixel and at least one second subpixel are arranged in each row, and/or at least one first subpixel and at least one second subpixel are arranged in each column.

The present disclosure provides an array substrate. The array substrate includes a substrate having a display region with a plurality of pixel regions, each pixel region having two or more first regions; a common electrode line between two adjacent pixel regions; a gate line; a data line intersecting with the gate line; at least one of the gate line and the data line being in a second region between two adjacent first regions; and a pixel electrode having a hollowed-out pattern within a corresponding first region, pixel electrodes corresponding to the two or more first regions being a pixel electrode unit.

A liquid crystal display panel and a display device are provided. The liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of sub-pixel units, and each of the sub-pixel units has four photic areas. The liquid crystal display panel further has slits arranged in corresponding positions of an upper electrode and/or a lower electrode corresponding to a boundary of adjacent photic areas, and an opening direction of the slits is parallel to an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules in the photic area where the slits are located at. The corresponding dark fringes can be effectively reduced by arranging the slits in the upper electrode or the lower electrode.

The presently claimed invention provides a phase modulator for a see-through display, and the corresponding fabrication methods. The phase modulator comprises a liquid crystal layer having at least two types of domains including a first domain having a first refractive index and a second domain having a second refractive index. The phase modulator is able to increase field of view without inducing the problem of the fringe field effect between two adjacent pixels.

A liquid crystal display is formed by arraying a plurality of pixels 10, and the pixel 10 includes a first substrate 20, a second substrate 50, a first electrode 120 formed on the first substrate 20, a second electrode 52 formed on the second substrate 50, and a liquid crystal layer 60. A pretilt angle is provided to a liquid crystal molecule 61, and the first electrode 120 is formed of a transparent conductive material layer and a foundation layer 150 including a plurality of projecting portions 130 and recessed portions 140. A first transparent conductive material layer 135 connected to a first power feeding unit is formed on a projecting portion top surface 151 of the foundation layer 150, and a second transparent conductive material layer 145 connected to a second power feeding unit is formed on a recessed portion bottom surface 152 of the foundation layer 150.