The objective of the present invention is to provide a
liquid crystal display device for displaying colors by transmission and reflection
modes and a method for producing such devices, whereby the
additive color mixing can be used, the structure is simplified, the driving-
voltage is lower, the contrast is higher, the response speed is higher, and the screen can be larger. This objective can be achieved by a method including the following steps: mixing 0.001 to 20 wt % of dichromatic melanotic
pigment into
chiral nematic liquid crystal mixed with chiral
dopant; preparing a mixture of the
liquid crystal and
prepolymer to be polymerized into transparent polymeric
solid; inserting the mixture into the space between two conductive substrates, wherein at least one of which is transparent; and irradiating ultra-
violet light or neighboring short-
wavelength light onto the mixture. This process creates an accumulation of small packets composed of the
liquid crystal packed with a thin film of the transparent polymeric
solid within a light-controlling layer between the two conductive substrates. When no
voltage is applied, the
pigment molecules absorb light because they are distributed within the space with their longitudinal axis randomly directed. When a
voltage is applied, elongated liquid
crystal molecules are oriented perpendicular to the substrates, and the
pigment molecules are also oriented in a similar manner. In this state, the black color of the pigment molecules does not appear, so that light is allowed to pass therethrough.