Reduction of the operating voltage of a nanoencapsulated liquid crystal display by using a half-wall structure

We proposed a half-wall structure in the in-plane switching (IPS) configuration of the nanoencapsulated liquid crystal (LC) display for reducing a driving voltage. The IPS electrodes were fabricated on top of the half-walls to enhance electric field strength through the whole LC layer. In addition, we demonstrated a self-masking process for the half-wall structure and the IPS electrodes without any additional mask-aligning process.