V-shape switching ferroelectric liquid crystal for reflective microdisplayapplications

We have applied the simulated TFT-type circuit to direct drive a hardwired Si-based chip idled with the AFLC mixture by varying the values of storage capacitor and gate on-time, The results indicate that the gate on-time has to be comparable to or larger than the response time in order to fully swit ch the display, Adding a storage capacitor is effective to increase the sig nal if the gate on-time of the TFT is shorter than the AFLC response time, We also used quasi-DC driving with a short gate on-time on the hardwired ch ip as well as a Si-based reflective SXGA microdisplay. We have accomplished the effective operation of the microdisplay using 5-frame quasi-DC driving with extrapolated polarity-frame inversion at 360 Hz suitable for field-se quential color displays using LED pulsed-light sources as well as optical s torage applications.