Material of alignment films, methods of fabricating liquid crystal display panels and liquid crystal display panels

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10690966-B2
Application number	US-201816197282-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 20, 2018
Priority date	Jun 2, 2016
Publication date	Jun 23, 2020
Grant date	Jun 23, 2020

Abstract

A material of alignment film, a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, and a liquid crystal display panel are provided. The material of alignment film is obtained by mixing a polymerizable monomer in the polyamic acid solution, thus is easy to fabricate. The method of fabricating the liquid crystal display panel obtains an alignment film including a polyimide film and polymer protrusions located on a surface of the polyimide film by coating the material of alignment film on a substrate, and going through a series of processes; the alignment film can allow liquid crystal molecules arrange in vertical alignment and generate a pre-inclination angle, and a risk of the polymerizable monomer contaminating the liquid crystal molecules does not exist, so as to enhance quality of the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel has a simple structure and good alignment effect, and has excellent display quality.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display panel, comprising the following steps:
Step 1, providing a material of alignment film, the material of alignment film comprising a polyamic acid containing aromatic fused ring structure, a polymerizable monomer containing aromatic fused ring structure, and a solvent;
wherein the polyamic acid containing aromatic fused ring structure comprises one or more than one of the following:

wherein

comprise one or a combination of more than one of

are the same or different;

is a non-aromatic fused ring based group containing cyclic unit; and
the polymerizable monomer containing aromatic fused ring structure comprises

Step 2, providing a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate comprising a first underlying substrate and a first electrode disposed on the first underlying substrate, the second substrate comprising a second underlying substrate and a second electrode disposed on the second underlying substrate;
coating the material of alignment film provided in step 1 on a surface of the first electrode of the first substrate and a surface of the second electrode of the second substrate; and
baking the material of alignment film, to completely volatilize the solvent, simultaneously to make dehydration and cyclization of the polyamic acid containing aromatic fused ring structure, then to be converted to a polyimide containing aromatic fused ring, to form a polyimide film, and the polyimide film containing a polymerizable monomer containing aromatic fused ring structure;
Step 3, dripping liquid crystal molecules on the surface of the first substrate or second substrate that the polyimide film is disposed thereon, coating a sealant on a periphery corresponding to the liquid crystal molecules on the side of the second substrate or first substrate that the polyimide film is disposed thereon;
Step 4, laminating the first substrate and the second substrate at corresponding position, so that a liquid crystal layer is formed by the liquid crystal molecules located between the first substrate and the second substrate; curing the sealant, at this time, the liquid crystal molecules arranging perpendicular to the first substrate and the second substrate; and
Step 5, applying a voltage to both sides of the liquid crystal layer through the first electrode and the second electrode, after the liquid crystal molecules deflected, at the same time of applying the voltage, performing UV irradiation to the polyimide film, to form polymer protrusions on the surface of the polyimide film by polymerizing the polymerizable monomer containing aromatic fused ring structure by action of photo initiation, so that a first alignment film and a second alignment film are respectively formed on the surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate, both the first alignment film and the second alignment film comprise the polyimide film and the polymer protrusions located on the surface of the polyimide film;
wherein after the UV irradiation is stopped and the voltage is removed, the liquid crystal molecules near surfaces of the first alignment film and the second alignment film generates a pre-inclination angle.

2. The method of fabricating the liquid crystal display panel according to claim 1 , wherein a mass percentage of the polyamic acid containing aromatic fused ring structure is 3-4%, a mass percentage of the polymerizable monomer containing aromatic fused ring structure is 0.03-0.4%, a mass percentage of the solvent is 95.6-96.97%.

3. The method of fabricating the liquid crystal display panel according to claim 1 , wherein a method of preparing the material of alignment film provided in step 1 comprising:
Step 11, providing a dianhydride based monomer containing aromatic fused ring structure and a diamine based monomer, dissolving the dianhydride based monomer containing aromatic fused ring structure and the diamine based monomer in the solvent, reacting to obtain the polyamic acid containing aromatic fused ring structure, so as to obtain a polyamic acid solution; and
Step 12, providing a polymerizable monomer containing aromatic fused ring structure, adding the polymerizable monomer containing aromatic fused ring structure into the polyamic acid solution obtained in Step 11, to obtain the material of alignment film.

4. The method of fabricating the liquid crystal display panel according to claim 1 , wherein, in Step 5, the voltage applied to the both sides of the liquid crystal layer is 13-25V, an intensity of ultraviolet (UV) during the UV irradiation is 85-100 mW/cm 2 , an irradiation time is 20-30 min.

Assignees

• Shenzhen China Star Optoelect

Inventors

• Lan Song

Classifications

• G02F1/133788 Primary

  by light irradiation, e.g. linearly polarised light photo-polymerisation · CPC title

• C08J7/18

  using wave energy or particle radiation · CPC title

• G02F1/133723 Primary

  Polyimide, polyamide-imide · CPC title

• C09K19/56 Primary

  Aligning agents · CPC title

• G02F1/133711

  by organic films, e.g. polymeric films · CPC title