Abstract:
Cell with a double liquid crystal layer using the electrically controlled birefringence effect and process for producing a negative optical anisotropy uniaxial material usable in said cell.The cell can comprise two crossed rectilinear polarizers, three glass plates provided with transparent electrodes and placed between said polarizers, two liquid crystal layers between the plates and, between a plate and a polarizer, a sheet of the medium, whose extraordinary axis is perpendicular to the plates. This sheet can be obtained by heating a thermoplastic polymer up to the isotropic state, under a uniform pressure on the polarizers, cooling and eliminating the pressure. The cell is designed in such a way that the molecules of the respective layers tilt in two directions forming the same angle with the homeotropy direction, when an exciting voltage is applied between the electrodes, said directions, viewed in projection on a plate, also being opposite in the main observation plane.Application to the production of television screens.
Abstract:
A process for the sequential control of a liquid crystal display means having different optical responses in alternating and steady fields. This process consists of applying to one side of a first electrode an a.c. potential V.sub.1 and to the other side an a.c. potential V.sub.2, with V.sub.2 -V.sub.1 constant, so that only line Y parallel to the sides of the first electrode is exposed to a reference potential V.sub.0 ; applying to one side of a second electrode an a.c. potential V.sub.3 and to the other side an a.c. potential V.sub.4, with V.sub.4 -V.sub.3 constant, so that only the line X parallel to the sides of the second electrode, intersecting the first, is exposed to V.sub.0 ; and applying a d.c. potential V.sub.5 to the two sides of one electrode, so that liquid crystal zone XY defined by the intersection of lines X and Y is only subject to potential V.sub.5 and that outside the zone the liquid crystal is subject to an a.c. potential difference, the displayed state of the zone resulting from a positive polarity of V.sub.5, the undisplayed state resulting from a negative polarity of V.sub.5 and the maintaining of a state resulting from the elimination of V.sub.5.
Abstract:
Integrated control, active matrix display means comprising two groups of row electrodes and two groups of column electrodes per image point and the control process for the same. This means comprises a display material inserted between two walls on the inner faces of which are arranged n parallel row conductors and two groups, each formed from m parallel columns, one of the two groups being raised to reference potential and each row conductor being connected to m switches, themselves connected to two conductor blocks of first and second groups facing column conductors of first and second groups. An image point is defined by the overlap zone of two column conductors and two conductor blocks respectively of a first and second groups.
Abstract:
A process for the control of a matrix display such as a liquid crystal display displaying grey levels comprising a display material inserted between m electrode rows and p electrode columns which cross the rows, a material zone M.sub.i N.sub.j being excited by the application to row M.sub.i of a first series of pulse signals and to column N.sub.j of a second series of continuous signals, with i,j being integers such that 1.ltoreq.i.ltoreq.m and 1.ltoreq.j.ltoreq.p, said signals being cyclical of cycle T with polarity reversal at each half-cycle T/2, T/2 being subdivided into n time fractions equal to 2.sup.(k-1) m.tau., in which k is an integer such that 1.ltoreq.k.ltoreq.n and .tau. a time interval useful for exciting the material, the signal of the second series having a maximum of 2 n polarity reversals over a cylcle T and for each time fraction being either in phase, or in phase opposition with the signal of the first series.
Abstract:
The display comprises a cholesteric liquid crystal film in which are embedded dye molecules between the two walls separated by a shim. One wall is at least partly covered by a reflecting coating reversing the polarization of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave. The optical anisotropy .DELTA.n and the helix pitch p are such that the least absorbed wave on passing through the cell has an ellipticity equal to or greater than .pi./8.
Abstract:
A storage layer is arranged facing an array of micro-tips. The storage layer includes a plurality of insulated conductive dots designed to store electric charges. Each micro-tip includes a high-permittivity element integral to a transistor channel connecting a source and a drain. The channel has a conductance able to be modified by the electric field created by the charge of the dot arranged facing the high-permittivity element. The system can include an actuator for relative displacement of the storage layer with respect to the micro-tips. The system can include an array of electrodes able to cause displacement of the charges from one dot to the other.
Abstract:
A storage layer is arranged facing an array of micro-tips. The storage layer includes a plurality of insulated conductive dots designed to store electric charges. Each micro-tip includes a high-permittivity element integral to a transistor channel connecting a source and a drain. The channel has a conductance able to be modified by the electric field created by the charge of the dot arranged facing the high-permittivity element. The system can include an actuator for relative displacement of the storage layer with respect to the micro-tips. The system can include an array of electrodes able to cause displacement of the charges from one dot to the other.
Abstract:
Devices and methods for carrying out a chemical or biochemical protocol are disclosed. In one embodiment, the chemical or biochemical protocol is performed by cycling at least one thermal transfer member between at least two temperatures while liquid samples on which the chemical or biochemical protocol is to be performed are continuously moving through at least one temperature regulated zone upon which the at least one thermal transfer member acts. In some embodiments, the device comprises a sample transport member that comprises liquid samples in sample receiving regions. The sample transport member moves the samples continuously through a temperature regulated zone which cycles between at least two temperatures while the liquid samples are moving through a temperature regulated zone on which at least one thermal transfer member acts. In some embodiments, the sample receiving regions comprise wells, hydrophillic films or hydrophillic filaments.
Abstract:
Support comprising electrodes covered by a deposit and a system for reading this support. This support comprising a substrate (22) and electrodes (24) on this substrate, at least one of these electrodes being designed to be covered by a deposit capable of recognizing and capturing molecule-targets that are sensitive to a first light and that are capable of emitting a second light when they are excited by the first light. The substrate and electrodes are transparent to at least the first or the second light. The system comprises a light source (60) emitting the first light and means (62) of detecting the second light. Application to biological sensors.
Abstract:
A cathode includes microtips for flat display screens, of the type including cathode conductors, between a substrate and a gate, the gate including holes inside meshes defined by the cathode conductors. An insulating layer, including wells facing the holes, is interposed between the cathode conductors and the gate. Microtips are deposited in the wells, onto a resistive layer. The cathode conductors are deposited over the resistive layer and are coated with an auxiliary insulating layer.