This paper proposed a wide viewing angle twisted nematic (TN) liquid crystal display (LCD) with a protrusion structure under the pixel electrode. The proposed LCD mode avoids the complex rubbing processes because of the protrusion which induces the multi-domain structure like the conventional multi-domain TN mode. As no voltage applied
the LC profile is the same as that of the normal TN cell
the LC molecules tilted four different directions to obtain the multi-domain structure while the operate voltage is applied. In this paper
the electro-optic characteristics is simulated using the professional software
and the results show that the proposed multi-domain TN LCD has the wide viewing characteristics and low color shift.
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