Abstract:
Transparent conductors that exhibit minimal scattering, methods for fabricating such transparent conductors, and display devices comprising such transparent conductors are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a transparent conductor comprises a substrate having an effective refractive index n1, an over layer overlying the substrate and having an effective refractive index n3, and a transparent conductive coating interposed between the substrate and the over layer. The transparent conductive coating comprises a plurality of conductive components and a matrix material that together have an effective refractive index n2 in the range of about √{square root over (n1×n3)}−Δ≦n2≦√{square root over (n1×n3)}+Δ, wherein Δ is an optimization factor within the range of about 0 to about 0.3.
Abstract:
An interferential optical filter is provided comprising multiple layers each having real and/or imaginary refraction indexes. The values of the real and imaginary indexes depend on the strength of an external electric field. The material refraction indexes and the thickness of each layer and their combination are selected such as to provide an interference extremum in at least one region of the spectrum, for at least one polarization of incident light. At least one layer is made of an electro-optical material, which is anisotropic and made from at least one aromatic organic material. The molecules or fragments of molecules of the aromatic organic material have a flat structure. At least part of the layer of the electro-optical material has a crystalline structure with an intermolecular spacing of 3.4±0.3 Å along one of optical axes.
Abstract:
A method of fabrication of an electrooptical device comprises depositing a colloid system of anisometric particles onto at least one electrode and/or onto at least one substrate and/or onto at least one layer of an isotropic or anisotropic material to form at least one layer of an electrooptical material, externally aligning the colloid system to form a preferred alignment of the colloid system particles, drying the colloid system, and forming at least one electrode and/or at least one layer of an isotropic or anisotropic material on at least a portion of the layer of the electrooptical material.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the field of color filters, in particular, to a non-absorbing polarization color filters and to high-brightness color liquid crystal display panel with improved image contrast employing non-absorbing polarization color filters and light recycling among neighboring subpixels. The disclosed invention represents a non-absorbing polarization color filter comprising the following elements: a rear broadband multilayer lossless polarizer, a front broadband multilayer lossless polarizer, and a color polarization rotator. The rear broadband multilayer lossless polarizer has a predefined-oriented transmission axis AB. Said front broadband multilayer lossless polarizer is located approximately in parallel with the rear broadband multilayer lossless polarizer, and has a transmission axis approximately parallel or approximately orthogonal with respect to transmission axis AB. The color polarization rotator is located between the front broadband multilayer lossless polarizer and the rear broadband multilayer lossless polarizer. Said color polarization rotator comprises a stack of thin birefringent films with c-axes orientations alternated in sign according to a rocking angle α with respect to orientation of the transmission axis AB. A number, a rocking angle α, thicknesses and optical anisotropies of thin birefringent films are selected so, that the non-absorbing polarization color filter transmits a predetermined color light having the polarization state approximately parallel to transmission axis AB, reflects said predetermined color light having the polarization state orthogonal to the transmission axis AB, and reflects an unpolarized light of other predetermined color.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel with improved image contrast comprising an array of pixel regions and a sequence of a recycling backlight structure comprising broadband rear interference polar (RI-Polar) having a transmission axis AB with preset orientation, a spatial intensity modulation structure comprising a broadband front interference polar (FI-Polar) having a transmission axis approximately parallel to the transmission axis AB, a spectral filtering structure, and antireflection means. Each said pixel region spatially encompasses a plurality of subpixel regions. The RI-Polar and FI-Polar are multilayer structures of stacked layers. At least one layer of each structure is optically anisotropic, made by means of Cascade Crystallization Process and characterized by a globally ordered biaxial crystalline structure with an intermolecular spacing of 3.4±0.3 Å in the direction approximately parallel to the transmission axis AB. Said layer is transparent in the wavelength band of visible light, and is formed by rodlike supramolecules, which represent at least one polycyclic organic compound with a conjugated π-system and ionogenic groups.