Abstract:
The present invention relates to polymer stabilized nematic liquid crystal microlenses. The microlenses can be made from a nematic liquid crystal, a chiral dopant, a reactive monomer, and a photoinitiator. The microlenses can be prepared by spin coating a liquid crystal mixture onto an array including a nickel transmission electron microscope grid. The focal length of the microlens array can be tuned electrically.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a spontaneous orientation aid for a liquid crystal composition, containing one kind or two or more kinds of a compound having a partial structure represented by the general formula (i), wherein Zi1 represents a single bond, etc.; Ai1 represents a divalent 6-membered aromatic group, etc.; mi1 represents an integer of 1 to 5; and Ki1 represents a structure represented by any of the following formulae (K-1) to (K-8), wherein WK1 represents a methine group, etc.; XK1 and YK1 each represent —CH2—, etc.; ZK1 represents an oxygen atom, etc.; and UK1, VK1, and SK1 each represent a methine group, etc.:
Abstract:
There is provided a liquid crystal composition containing at least one compound represented by General Formula (a). There is also provided a liquid crystal display device using such a liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition of the present invention has the following properties without suffering reductions in refractive index anisotropy (Δn) and nematic phase-isotropic liquid phase transition temperature (Tni): sufficiently low viscosity (η), sufficiently low rotational viscosity (γ1), a large elastic constant (K33), a high voltage holding ratio after UV exposure (VHR (UV)), and a negative dielectric anisotropy (Δ∈) with a large absolute value. A liquid crystal display device of, for example, a VA type that uses such a liquid crystal composition has a high response speed and excellent display quality with defective display being eliminated or reduced.
Abstract:
An aspect of the present invention relates to a wavelength conversion member, which comprises a wavelength conversion layer, wherein the wavelength conversion layer comprises at least one quantum dot which has a property of being excited with exciting light to emit fluorescence, and at least one oxygen permeability coefficient-reducing agent, an oxygen permeability coefficient per 1 mm thickness of the wavelength conversion layer is less than 150.0 cm3/m2/day/atm, and the oxygen permeability coefficient-reducing agent is a compound which exhibits an oxygen permeability coefficient-reducing capability of reducing the oxygen permeability coefficient per 1 mm thickness of the wavelength conversion layer by equal to or more than 30% per 10 parts by weight of the oxygen permeability coefficient-reducing agent relative to 100 parts by weight of the wavelength conversion layer except for the oxygen permeability coefficient-reducing agent.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a switch element, which is thermoresponsive and which switches between a less transmissive state for radiant energy and a more transmissive state for radiant energy, and which comprises a liquid-crystalline medium. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the switch element for the regulation of radiant energy flow between interior spaces and the environment and for the regulation of the temperature of interior spaces. The invention furthermore relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, characterised in that it comprises 5-95% of a compound of the formula (I), in particular for use in the switch elements according to the invention.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal cell includes substrates defining a gap and electrodes having one of (i) an in-plane geometry generating an electric field parallel with the substrates and (ii) a top-down geometry generating an electric field across the gap between the two spaced apart substrates. A liquid crystal material disposed in the gap between the substrates comprises a chiral nematic material formed by a mixture of: 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)hexane (CB6OCB) or α,ω-bis(4,4-cyanobiphenyl)nonane (CB9CB) dimeric liquid crystal material; at least one additional dimeric liquid crystal material; and a chiral dopant. The liquid crystal material within an operational range of electric field applied by the electrodes exhibits a heliconical state with an oblique angle helicoid director whose helicoid axis is oriented parallel with the electric field and whose helicoid pitch is sized to provide diffraction or Bragg reflection of light in a spectral range of interest impinging on one of the substrates of the liquid crystal cell.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal composition and an AM LCD device containing the liquid crystal composition are described. The liquid crystal composition has a negative dielectric anisotropy, includes a specific compound having a high maximum temperature and a large optical anisotropy as a first component, and may also include at least one of a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a second component, a specific compound having a high maximum temperature or a small viscosity as a third component, and a specific compound having a polymerizable group as an additive component.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to polymerisable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid-crystal (LC) media and LC displays having a polymer-stabilised blue phase, and in LC media for LC displays of the PS or PSA type (“polymer sustained” or “polymer sustained alignment”), and to LC media and LC displays comprising these compounds.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal composition and an AM device using the same are described. The liquid crystal composition has a negative dielectric anisotropy, and 4.2 GPa·s/N or less as a ratio of rotational viscosity to an elastic constant, and contains a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a first component and a specific compound having a polymerizable group as a second component, and may contain a specific compound having a small viscosity or a large maximum temperature as a third component and a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a fourth component, and a liquid crystal display device includes the composition.
Abstract:
To provide a liquid crystal composition having at least one or a suitable balance regarding at least two of characteristic such as high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, low minimum temperature thereof, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light or heat; an AM device having short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition has positive dielectric anisotropy and contains a specific compound having high maximum temperature and large refractive index anisotropy as a first component, and may contain a specific compound having large positive dielectric anisotropy as a second component, a specific compound having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a third component or a specific compound having negative dielectric anisotropy as a fourth component, and a liquid crystal display device includes the composition.