摘要:
A new tetrastable liquid crystal is provided which is useful for display and switching devices. The liquid crystal has the formula ##STR1## where R.sub.1 is a C.sub.5-18 alkyl group and R.sub.2 is a C.sub.4-15 alkyl group and * is an optically active center.
摘要:
A novel amino acid derivative is disclosed, which is produced using a relatively inexpensive amino acid as a starting material for an optically active moiety and shows a chiral nematic phase or a chiral smectic phase over a wide temperature range around room temperature. A process for producing the amino acid derivative is also disclosed.
摘要:
An optically active, generally mesomorphic compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 denotes an alkyl group having 1-18 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 denotes an alkyl group having 1-12 carbon atoms; X denotes a single bond, --O--, ##STR2## Y denotes a single bond, ##STR3## --CH.sub.2 O-- or --OCH.sub.2 --; Z denotes --OCH.sub.2 --, ##STR4## C* denotes an asymmetric carbon atom; k, m and n are respectively 0, 1 or 2 with proviso that k+m+n amounts to 2 or 3; and p is 1 or 2.
摘要:
The invention lies in novel ferroelectric liquid crystal compounds particularly represented by the general formulae, having a good responsibility in relation to the applied electric field and a wide range of phase transition points inclusive of the room temperature so as to be useful alone as the liquid crystal material but also to be mixed with other liquid crystal compounds for expanding the phase transition points to a desired range and making the response speed of the liquid crystal composition faster. ##STR1## In the formulae, m and n are same or different with each other and represent an integral of 1-20.
摘要:
A ferroelectric liquid crystal device which comprises at least one pair of counterposed substrates, a ferroelectric liquid crystal material provided between the substrates, means for applying an electric field to the liquid crystal material and provided at the substrates, an alignment-controlling layer provided on the surface on the liquid crystal material side of each of the substrates, and a sealing member at the peripheral edges of the substrates, the alignment-controlling layer being a film of an organic polymer whose .beta. dispersion temperature is higher than the curing temperature of a sealant for the sealing member, preferably at least 200.degree. C., has a good alignment state of ferroelectric liquid crystal molecules achieved by cooling alone without any application of an electric field and has good display qualities such as a high contrast.
摘要:
Novel ferroelectric liquid crystal compounds which may realize a stable molecular orientation which makes it possible to give a definite light-dark contrast in the no electric field state and attain a definite threshold property as well as hysteresis, and for making it possible to attain the dynamic driving as well as the high speed of response, owing to tri-stable phase thereof, of the general formulae (I) and (II) ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 means an alkyl, alkoxy or alkyloxycarbonyl each of 1-20 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 means optically active ##STR2## wherein n is an integer of 4-10, X means ##STR3## Y means ##STR4##
摘要:
Disclosed is a mesomorphic compound having a .beta.-hydroxycarboxyl group as the chiral source, which is represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein m and n are integers of from 1 to 18, X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 independently represent fluorine, chlorine or hydrogen, Y represents ##STR2## or --O--, Z represents a direct bond, ##STR3## --CH hd 2O-- or --OCH.sub.2 --, and * indicates the asymmetric carbon. The mesomorphic compound is valuable as a ferroelectric liquid crystal or an additive to a ferroelectric liquid crystal or to a compound showing the SmC phase and having no chiral group.
摘要:
A compound suitable for use in a ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal composition having a structure which contains two chiral centers derived from alpha hydroxy carboxylic acid groups and having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is n-alkoxy containing 1-12 carbo atoms and R.sub.2 is n-alkyl containing 1-12 carbon atoms. Methods of preparation and details of liquid crystal mixtures containing these compounds are described.
摘要:
An improved method for manufacturing liquid crystal devices is described. The method comprises mating a pair of substrates with an inner space therebetween, sealing the periphery of the mated substrates save for inlet ports, placing the mated substrates in a vacuum chamber, evacuating air from the inner space between the substrates by virtue of the differential pressure between the inner space and the vacuum chamber, pouring a liquid crystal material into the inlet ports, introducing the liquid crystal material into the inner space by elevating the pressure of the vacuum chamber at an elevated temperature, cooling the liquid crystal material, and closing the inlet ports by means of a sealing member. The removal of the superfluous portion of the liquid crystal material is done only after closing of the inlet ports.
摘要:
An optically active carboxylic acid derivative represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein R represents a normal alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, m and n represent 0 or 1 but are not 1 at the same time, X represents a hydrogen or halogen atom, Y represents a hydrogen or fluorine atom, provided that when Y is a hydrogen atom, X is a halogen atom, and that when n is 0, Y is a hydrogen atom, and Q* represents an optically active alkyl or 1-alkoxyethyl group having an asymmetric carbon atom.