摘要:
The present invention relates to heteroaromatic isothiocyanates of formula N
as defined in claim 1, to liquid-crystalline media comprising one or more compounds of formula N and to high-frequency components comprising these media, especially microwave components for high-frequency devices, such as devices for shifting the phase of microwaves, tunable filters, tunable metamaterial structures, and electronic beam steering antennas, e.g. phased array antennas.
摘要:
The present invention is to find appropriate manufacturing conditions for obtaining a homogeneous scattering state, a homogeneous transparent state, and a homogeneous driving voltage state and to obtain a polymer dispersed liquid crystal display element that has homogeneous properties. A polymer dispersed liquid crystal display element having excellent homogeneity can be obtained by irradiating a light control layer-forming material containing a liquid crystal material and a polymerizable composition with ultraviolet light under specific ultraviolet irradiation conditions to polymerize the polymerizable composition.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a liquid-crystal (LC) display of the PS (polymer stabilised) or PSA (polymer sustained alignment) type, and to polymerisable compounds and LC media for use in PS (polymer stabilised) and PSA displays.
摘要:
A liquid crystal composition having a nematic phase that includes three components, wherein the first component is at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by formula (1), the second component is at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by formulas (2-1) to (2-3), and the third component is at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by formula (3): wherein R1, R2 and R4 are each independently alkyl having 1 to 12 carbons or alkenyl having 2 to 12 carbons; R3 is fluorine, alkyl having 1 to 12 carbons or alkenyl having 2 to 12 carbons; R5 is fluorine, chlorine, alkyl having 1 to 12 carbons or alkenyl having 2 to 12 carbons; R6 is alkenyl having 2 to 12 carbons; Y1 is fluorine, chlorine or trifluoromethoxy; X1, X2, X3 and X4 are each independently hydrogen or fluorine; and one of X5 and X6 is fluorine, and the other is hydrogen.
摘要:
A liquid crystalline compound represented by Formula (1c′): wherein R1 and R2, rings A1, A2, A3, A4 and A5, Z1, Z2, Z3 and Z4, Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4, and k, l, m and n are as defined in the specification. Also provided is a liquid crystal composition containing at least one of these liquid crystalline compounds.
摘要:
Liquid crystalline compounds suitable for driving at a low voltage and at a wide temperature range, and suitable for high speed response, liquid crystal compositions comprising the compound, and liquid crystal display devices comprising the liquid crystal composition. The crystalline compounds are ester compounds expressed by the general formula (1) wherein R1 represents e.g. a hydrogen atom; A1 to A5 each independently represent e.g. 1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-phenylene, 1-cyclohexene-1,4-diyl, 3-cyclohexene-1,4-diyl, 1-sila-1,4-cyclohexylene, or 4-sila-1,4-cyclohexylene; bonding groups Za to Zd each independently represent e.g. a single bond, —CH2—, —O—, —C≡C—, or an alkylene group or alkenylene group having 2 to 4 carbon; bonding group Ze represents e.g. a single bond, an alkylene group or alkenylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; n1 to n3 are each independently 0 or 1, but n1≦n2≦n3; Y1 and Y2 each independently represent oxygen atom or sulfur atom; R2 represents e.g. a halogen atom, a straight chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or straight chain or branched alkenyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms; provided that when A5 represents unsubstituted 1,4-phenylene, then Zd is a single bond, and A4 is not 1,4-phenylene; and each atom which constitutes this compound may be replaced by its isotope.
摘要:
To improve switching times, especially at low temperatures, one or more reactive liquid crystalline compounds is added to a liquid crystal mixture used in an electrooptical system. The electrooptical system comprises a PDLC film comprising a liquid crystal mixture forming micro- droplets in an optically isotropic, transparent polymer matrix between 2 electrode layers. The reactive liquid crystalline compounds are of formula II, R′—G′—R″, wherein R′, G′ and R″ are as defined herein. The liquid crystal mixture comprises one or more compounds of the formula I wherein R, A1, A2, Z1, Z2, X1, X2, Q, Y and n are as defined herein.
摘要:
The present invention provides a difluoromethyl ether derivative which shows various suitable physical properties as a liquid crystal compound, a liquid crystal composition comprising the compound and a liquid crystal display element containing the composition, and also provides a simple and efficient process for producing the difluoromethyl ether derivative. According to the present invention, a process for producing a difluoromethyl ether derivative represented by Formula (1d): 1 wherein the variables are defined in the specification, is characterized by using an nullnull-difluorocyclohexylidene derivative represented by Formula (1a): 2 wherein R1, rings A1 and A2, Z1, Z2, k and l have the same meanings as defined in the specification, as a starting material. fluorine, a cyano group or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; Z1, Z2, Z3 and Z4 each independently represent a single bond or an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, in which at least one nullCH2null may be substituted with nullOnull, nullSnull, nullCHnullCHnull or nullCnullCnull but nullOnull is not adjacent to another nullOnull, and in which any hydrogen may be substituted with fluorine; Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4 each independently represent hydrogen, halogen, a cyano group or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; and k, l, m and n each independently represent 0 or 1; is characterized by using an null,null-difluorocyclohexylidene derivative represented by Formula (1a): 3 wherein R1, rings A1 and A2, Z1, Z2, k and l have the same meanings as defined above; as a starting material.
摘要:
Fluorine-containing, chiral liquid crystal compounds comprise (a) a chiral fluorochemical terminal portion comprising (i) at least one chiral center, which can optionally be heteroatom-substituted; (ii) a terminal fluoroalkyl, fluoroether, perfluoroalkyl, or perfluoroether group; and (iii) an alkylene or fluoroalkylene group optionally containing at least one catenary ether oxygen atom; (b) a chiral or achiral terminal portion consisting of a hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon ether group, and, when chiral, comprising at least one chiral center, which can optionally be heteroatom-substituted; and (c) a central core connecting the terminal portions; the alkylene or fluoroalkylene group of the chiral fluorochemical terminal portion having at least 3 in-chain atoms and being located between the chiral center of the chiral fluorochemical terminal portion and the central core. The compounds have smectic mesophases or latent smectic mesophases and are useful, for example, in liquid crystal display devices.
摘要:
1,4-disubstituted 2,6-difluorobenzene compound of formula I wherein R is an alkyl or alkenyl radical, A1 and A2, in each case independently of one another, are (a) a trans-1,4-cyclohexylene radical in which a CH2 group may be replaced by —O— and/or —S, (b) a 1,4-phenylene radical in which a CH group may be replaced by N, (c) 1,4-cyclohexenylene, 1,4-bicyclo(2,2,2)octylene, piperidine-1,4-diyl, naphthalene-2,6-diyl, decahydronaphthalene-2,6-diyl or 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene-2,6-diyl, Z1 and Z2 are —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CH2—O—, —OCH2—, —CH2CH2—, —CH═CH—, —C≡C— or a single bond m and n are 0, 1, 2 or 3, (m+n) is 1, 2 or 3, X is R or F, Cl, CF3, —OCF3, or —OCHF2, —OCF5, —CN or —NCS with the proviso that at least one of the radicals A1 and A2 present in the molecule is are suitable as components of liquid-crystalline media.