A novel transflective liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided with a
multilayer dielectric film transflector. The dielectric transflector is
composed of alternating high and low refractive index dielectric material
layers deposited directly on the inner side of the LCD substrate to avoid
parallax. The transmittance of the dielectric transflector can vary from
approximately 5% to approximately 95% by simply adjusting the individual
dielectric layer thickness and the arrangement of layers. The thickness
of the 10-layer film is approximately 700 nm, which does not affect the
voltage drop on the LC. Two structures of the dielectric film using
different positions of the materials of construction are provided and
demonstrated. Such a transflective LCD exhibits outstanding features,
such as, robust dielectric film, single cell gap, no parallax, and a
simple fabrication process.