摘要:
In various embodiments magnetically actuated liquid crystals are provided as well as method of manufacturing such, methods of using the liquid crystals and devices incorporating the liquid crystals. In one non-limiting embodiment the liquid crystals comprise Fe3O4 nanorods where the nanorods are coated with a silica coating.
摘要:
The invention relates to a liquid crystal modulator comprising at least one ferroelectric liquid crystal, and to a method for operating an optical liquid crystal modulator having at least one ferroelectric liquid crystal. The aim of the invention is to greatly diminish temperature-dependent influences during simultaneously short switching times. To this end, the invention provides that the ferroelectric liquid crystals have a DHF mode and an operating range of the electric field that exceeds 10 V/νm at the location of the liquid crystal. The operating frequency is preferably greater than 50 kHz.
摘要:
An electrically controlled medium for modulating light includes two plastic thin film layers (1) and (2), and a mixture layer (3) is arranged between the two plastic thin film layers (1) and (2). The mixture layer (3) consist of smectic liquid crystals (31), polymer materials (33) and dopants (32). Electrode layers (4) are coated on one side of each of the two plastic thin film layers (1) and (2) facing to the mixture layer (3), and the electrode layers (4) are connected to a device of electrical driving system (5). The liquid crystal molecules are allowed to exhibit different molecule alignments by controlling the amplitude, frequency and driving time of the electric power applied to the electrode layers (4), so that the electrically controlled medium for modulating light can be switched between a blurred scattering state and a fully transparent state, even may be switched among a plurality of gradual translucent states of different gray levels. The medium is power saving, hard to be broken and eco friendly and it can maintain its state after power is off (memory effect). It has fast switching speed and can be broadly used for the fields of architectural decoration, privacy control areas, automotive electronics and glass, etc.
摘要:
A liquid crystal display device using a ferroelectric liquid crystal in which mono-domain alignment of the ferroelectric liquid crystal is achieved without causing zigzag defects, hairpin defects, and alignment defects such as double-domain, this alignment can be maintained even if the temperature exceeds the phase-transition point, and the alignment stability is excellent. The liquid crystal display device comprising two substrates and a ferroelectric liquid crystal interposed between them is characterized in that on the opposed surfaces of the substrates, electrodes and optical alignment films are sequentially provided, and the materials of the optical alignment films have mutually different compositions.
摘要:
A liquid crystal device, comprising, at least, a pair of polarizing elements being disposed so that the transmission axes thereof are perpendicular to each other; a liquid crystal element disposed between the pair of polarizing elements; and voltage applying means for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal element. The liquid crystal element is such that it enables high-speed optical response, and the optical axis azimuth thereof is rotatable in response to the strength and/or direction of an electric field to be applied thereto. The voltage applying means is capable of controlling a voltage to be applied from the voltage applying means to the liquid crystal element, in response to the liquid crystal molecular alignment in the liquid crystal material. There is provided a liquid crystal device having a temperature-compensating function so as to achieve a good light-dark ratio.
摘要:
A main object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing a liquid crystal display having less alignment defects, which seldom causes aligning disorder at the boundary where ferroelectric liquid crystals allowed to flow are brought into contact with each other when the ferroelectric liquid crystals coated on the substrate flow. To attain the object, the present invention provides a process for producing liquid crystal display comprising a first alignment layer formation step and a liquid crystal coating step, wherein the liquid crystal coating step is a step of linearly coating the ferroelectric liquid crystals on a first alignment layer of a liquid crystal side substrate in a direction substantially perpendicular or substantially parallel to the alignment treatment direction conducted in the first alignment layer formation step.
摘要:
A liquid crystal display element which uses mono-stable ferroelectric liquid crystal and can control the orientation of spontaneous polarization of ferroelectric liquid crystal. The liquid crystal display element comprises a first orientation processing substrate having a first substrate, a first electrode layer formed on the first substrate and a first orientation film formed on the first electrode layer, and a second orientation processing substrate having a second substrate, a second electrode layer formed on the second substrate, a second orientation film formed on the second electrode layer and a reactive liquid crystal layer formed on the second orientation film and made by solidifying reactive liquid crystal, the first and the second processing substrates being disposed with the first orientation film and the reactive liquid crystal layer facing each other, the first orientation film and the reactive liquid crystal layer holding ferroelectric liquid crystal between them, characterized in that the ferroelectric liquid crystal exhibits a mono-stable feature, and, when a voltage is applied with the second electrode layer as a cathode, the molecular orientation of the ferroelectric liquid crystal changes about two times the tilt angle of the ferroelectric liquid crystal and in parallel to the surface of the first orientation processing substrate.
摘要:
A liquid crystal device comprising: at least a pair of substrates; and a Smectic phase liquid crystal material disposed between the pair of substrate. The molecular long axis or n-director of the Smectic phase liquid crystal material has a tilt angle to its layer normal as a bulk material, and the molecular long axis of the Smectic phase liquid crystal material aligns parallel to the pre-setting alignment direction, resulting in its long axis layer normal.