anatomy of an LCD

[GhostStar]

have any of you ever disasembled a LCD before?
well if you have then you noticed the two thin sheets of plastic, and when you look through these plastic things every thing is kinda rainbow and bendy, well what i want to know is what are those plastic things called?

[Ad Bot]

[dkamm65]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiejNAUwcQ8

[tails]

    Polarizing filter film with a vertical axis to polarize light as it enters.

    Glass substrate with ITO electrodes. The shapes of these electrodes will determine the shapes that will appear when the LCD is turned ON. Vertical ridges etched on the surface are smooth.

    Twisted nematic liquid crystal.

    Glass substrate with common electrode film (ITO) with horizontal ridges to line up with the horizontal filter.

    Polarizing filter film with a horizontal axis to block/pass light.

    Reflective surface to send light back to viewer. (In a backlit LCD, this layer is replaced with a light source.)

[GhostStar]

thanks a ton 

[Clone v.117]

Read this as LSD.
Everything in my mind just changed.

[Momentum]

thats the monitor i use. plus yes, ive went into lcds.

[Epicduke]

Read this as LSD.

[halonerfer29]

thats the monitor i use.

[e-maxx]

thats the monitor i use.

LED's motherforgeter