Abstract:
An object is to provide a polymerizable compound having high polymerization reactivity, a high conversion ratio and high solubility in a liquid crystal composition, a polymerizable composition containing the compound, a liquid crystal composite prepared from the composition, and a liquid crystal display device having the composite. A solution is a polymerizable compound represented by formula (1). In the formula, for example, P1 and P2 are —OCO—(CH3)C═CH2; S1 and S2 are a single bond; ring A1, ring A2 and ring A3 are 1,4-phenylene; Z1, Z2 and Z3 are a single bond; two of G is —CH═ or —N═; and a is 0 or 1.
Abstract:
The invention relates to compounds of the formula I, and to a liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase and negative dielectric anisotropy, which comprises one or more compounds of formula I, defined herein, for use in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the VA, ECB, PALO, FFS or IPS effect, and to the use of the compounds of the formula I for the stabilization of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more compounds of the formula II and one or more compounds of the formulae III-1 to III-4, defined herein.
Abstract:
An optical film comprising a transparent support and an optically-anisotropic layer formed of a composition including at least one liquid-crystal compound, wherein the transparent support includes at least one selected from cycloolefin-base homopolymers and copolymers, and the optically-anisotropic layer satisfies the following relation (1): Re(450)/Re(650)
Abstract:
The present invention relates to liquid crystal composition and a display device having the same. The liquid crystal composition includes uniaxial liquid crystal molecules and biaxial liquid crystal molecules mixed with the uniaxial liquid crystal molecules for controlling an alignment direction of the uniaxial liquid crystal molecules. The liquid crystal composition helps reduce generation of singular points and texture regions where orientation of liquid crystal molecules are difficult to control. Hence, the liquid crystal composition is able to provide improved image quality.
Abstract:
To suppress a phenomenon where an optical axis of the optically anisotropic layer is tilted when the optically anisotropic layer is produced by using a liquid crystalline compound showing smectic phase as a materials showing a higher level of orderliness. An optically anisotropic layer wherein a polymerizable composition, containing one or more polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound showing a smectic phase, is fixed in a state of smectic phase, and a direction of maximum refractive index of the optically anisotropic layer is inclined at 10° or smaller to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, a method for manufacturing the same, a laminate and a method for manufacturing the same, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL display device.
Abstract:
A curved liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a second substrate overlapping the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate and including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules, and a lower protrusion positioned between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, the lower protrusion being formed from at least one among a first compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, a polymer obtained from the first compound, and a polymer of the first compound and a cross-linker.
Abstract:
To suppress a phenomenon where an optical axis of the optically anisotropic layer is tilted when the optically anisotropic layer is produced by using a liquid crystalline compound showing smectic phase as a materials showing a higher level of orderliness. An optically anisotropic layer wherein a polymerizable composition, containing one or more polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound showing a smectic phase, is fixed in a state of smectic phase, and a direction of maximum refractive index of the optically anisotropic layer is inclined at 10° or smaller to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, a method for manufacturing the same, a laminate and a method for manufacturing the same, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL display device.
Abstract:
An optical film of the present invention includes a positive A-plate and a positive C-plate, in which the Re(450), Re(550), and Re(650) of the positive A-plate satisfy the relationship of Re(450)≦Re(550)≦Re(650), the positive A-plate is formed of a cured product of a composition including the liquid crystal compound A, and the positive C-plate is formed of a cured product of a composition including the liquid crystal compound C.
Abstract:
Methods of forming a liquid crystal blue phase from composite materials having a chiral nematic liquid crystal host and a bent-shape molecule are described. The stable temperature range of the liquid crystal blue phase may be improved by controlling the thickness of the composite materials. For example, a given composition may have a maximum stable temperature range for the liquid crystal blue phase at about 1 μm.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to: a polymerizable compound (I), wherein Y1 to Y6 are a chemical single bond, —O—C(═O)—, —C(═O)—O— or the like, G1 and G2 are a divalent aliphatic group, Z1 and Z2 are an alkenyl group, Ax is a fused ring group represented by a formula (II), wherein X is —NR3—, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or the like, R3 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and D is a substituted or unsubstituted ring having 1 to 20 carbon atoms that includes at least one nitrogen atom, Ay is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, A1 is a trivalent aromatic group or the like, A2 and A3 are a divalent aromatic group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms or the like, and Q1 is a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.