摘要:
The invention pertains to an alignment layer capable of aligning liquid crystal material, the alignment layer comprising: a first sublayer having regions capable of aligning the liquid crystal material in a first alignment, a second sublayer having regions capable of aligning the liquid crystal material in a second alignment, the first and the second alignment being different, the second sublayer overlaying the first sublayer and covering in accordance with a pre-determined pattern the first sublayer to provide, at desired locations, second sublayer regions capable of aligning the liquid crystal material and, at desired locations, regions of the underlying first sublayer that are not covered by the second sublayer, and to a method of making this alignment layer. The invention further relates to an optical or electro-optical device comprising said alignment layer.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a broadband cholesteric polarizer includes positioning a layer of reactive material; irradiating the layer of reactive material; directing, at a first side of the layer, a monochromatic beam of light of a given wavelength toward the layer; and detecting, at a second side of said layer, a detected intensity of light of the given wavelength coming from the layer.
摘要:
Transflective display device provided with a waveguide which separates light entering from the side or from above into two mutually perpendicular directions of polarization. Polarization separation is obtained at the interface between materials of the waveguide having the same refractive index for one polarization direction and different refractive indices for the other polarization direction.
摘要:
The invention relates to a color filter layer of a cholesterically ordered material, in which the axis of the molecular helix is directed perpendicularly to said layer. According to the invention, the color filter layer comprises at least one dye which is able to absorb undesired colors caused by color shifts. A correct choice of the bandwidth of the primary colors of the color filter layer and the dyes significantly alleviates the problem of undesired color shift. The invention also relates to a liquid crystal color display device of the reflective type, which is provided with such a color filter layer.
摘要:
An illumination system has an active layer which includes an electroluminescent material, the active layer being located between an optically transparent electrode layer and a reflective electrode layer. A reflective polarizer is present at a side of the transparent electrode layer facing away from the active layer. A sub-beam incident on the polarizer and having an unwanted polarization is reflected back to the active layer, where it is again partially depolarized to recover a component having the desired state of polarization. The invention also relates to a flat-panel picture display device which includes such an illumination system.
摘要:
The Application relates to an illumination system comprising a fluorescent lamp and a broadband, cholesteric polarizer. Such a polarizer contains a layer of a polymeric material having a cholesteric order, which material is ordered in such a way that the axis of the molecular helix extends at right angles to the layer. The broadband character of the polarizer is obtained by causing the pitch of the molecular helix to increase from a minimum value at a first surface of the cholesteric layer to a maximum value at the second surface of the layer. In accordance with the invention, the polarizer should be positioned in the illumination system in such a manner that the cholesteric layer is directed towards the fluorescent lamp with its first surface. In addition, the value of the product p.sub.max.n.sub.e of the maximum value of the pitch in the cholesteric layer p.sub.max and of the extraordinary refractive index n.sub.e must range between 0.61 micron and 0.76 micron. By virtue of these measures, the illumination system has a surprisingly low viewing-angle dependence of the lightness and the color. The Application further relates to a linear polarizer for use in this illumination system as well as to a display device which comprises such a linear polarizer.
摘要:
In a liquid crystal display device the number of grey levels is increased by means of a compensation foil comprising a layer having a cholesteric ordering with a helix pattern, in which the pitch of the helix is smaller than (0.26-0.31..DELTA.n) .mu.m, in which .DELTA.n is the optical anisotropy of the anisotropic layer. Moreover, the viewing angle dependence will be more symmetrical by patterning the cholesteric ordering.
摘要:
A molecularly oriented synthetic resin composition whose coefficient of linear thermal expansion in two mutually perpendicular directions, below the glass-transition temperature, is at least a factor of 3 smaller than in a third direction extending perpendicularly to the first two directions, is manufactured by curing a liquid-crystalline composition having a helicoidal order of molecules, so as to form a polymer network. The resins thus obtained are suitable for use as claddings on materials having a coefficient of thermal expansion which is smaller than that of most synthetic resins.
摘要:
The invention relates to an illumination system (7) for a colour image projection device (1). The illumination system (7) comprises a radiation source (3) for generating an unpolarized radiation beam (5) and at least a cholesteric mirror (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14) for wavelength-selective splitting of the radiation beam (5) into at least two sub-beams of different wavelengths. A composite circular polarizer (35) for directly converting the unpolarized radiation beam (5) into circularly polarized sub-beams jointly forming one beam is arranged in the path of the unpolarized radiation beam (5) between the radiation source (3) and the cholesteric mirror (9). The composite circular polarizer (35) comprises a polarization-sensitive beam splitter (43) which splits the unpolarized radiation beam (5) into two mutually perpendicularly and linearly polarized sub-beams, and a polarization converter (51, 53; 59, 61). The circularly polarized monochrome sub-beams are subsequently modulated, either or not after passage through .lambda./4 plate (63, 65, 67), by a corresponding number of image display panels (27, 29, 31) and projected as an image via a projection lens system (33).
摘要:
In a polarization-sensitive beam splitter 10 having a polarization-separating layer 13 interposed between two transparent elements 11, 12, the two transparent elements consist of non-birefringent material and the polarization-separating layer is a polarizing birefringent oriented polymer adhesive layer. The polarization-separating layer is manufactured from a curable synthetic resin composition comprising liquid-crystalline monomers or oligomers, the molecules in the curable synthetic resin composition being oriented uniaxially after which the synthetic resin composition is cured.