摘要:
Sub-micron-structured (nanostructured) polymer film or coatings are made by coating a substrate with a mixture of materials. One of the materials is removed using a selective solvent, leaving pores or other nanostructure. The substrate may be grooved, providing a competing nanostructure. The coating may act as an antireflective coating, optical retarder, optical diffuser, or orientation layer.
摘要:
A component has a substrate (1) made of a transparent material, for example glass. On this layer (1), there is a linear polarizer (2) on which there is a layer (3) of a photo-oriented polymer network (PPN)(-LPP) which is oriented in locally varying fashion via its surface which covers the substrate. The layer (3) is adjoined by an anisotropic layer (4) of cross-linked liquid-crystal monomers. This layer (4) then has a molecular arrangement whose orientation is defined by the underlying orientation layer (3). The layer (4) will have been photocross-linked by exposure to a suitable wavelength of light, with the result that the molecular orientation defined by the PPN layer (3) is fixed. The clement, denoted as a whole by 7, can then be used as an optical component which is protected against forgery, it being possible for the orientation pattern of the liquid-crystal layer or the optical information stored therein to be made visible by means of an external polarizer (5), for example.
摘要:
The invention relates to optical films and coatings and more specifically to a film or coating acting as a diffuse reflector or a diffuser, which is formed of a monomer-corrugated film or coating, which, when illuminated with CIE standard illuminant D65 under a selected direction has the property that within a desired angular range of observation of at least five degrees the difference in the CIE chromaticity coordinates (x, y) of said diffuse reflector or diffuser and of standard white BaSO4 is not more than 0.05 and the gain in brightness compared to standard white BaSO4 is not less than two. Diffusers and reflectors according to the invention are capable to redirect the transmitted or reflected incident light into a desired off-specular viewing cone whose shape is defined by the groove topology. The sizes (both grooves period and height), the vertical profile of the corrugations as well as their distributions and volume fraction can be adjusted via the MC-process. It can be used to control the spatial distribution of transmitted and reflected light and to achieve a desired state of polarization and whiteness.
摘要:
A liquid crystal switchable color filter switches between three color bands and is preferably used for time-sequential devices, such as projection devices, direct view displays and video cameras. The color filter may employ circularly polarizing selective reflection bands of at least four cholesteric filters together with three liquid crystal switches and related retarder layers. In one embodiment, the handedness of the second cholesteric is equal to the handedness of the third cholesteric filter and opposite to the handedness of the first and fourth cholesteric filter and, for the blocking state of a color band, the optic axis of the corresponding liquid crystal switch is parallel or perpendicular to the polarization direction. This concept leads to improved, excellent color saturation and requires less stringent production tolerances than in the prior art. Moreover, it advantageously allows overlapping color transmission bands thus improving the light efficiency.
摘要:
An optical component having a hybrid layer structure includes an orienting layer, a further layer in contact with the orienting layer and incorporating a cross-linked liquid crystalline monomer and at least one additional orienting layer on top of the liquid crystalline layer, and preferably includes one additional cross-linked liquid crystalline monomer. The layers have different functions, such as orienting or retarding. At least one of the orienting layers should be a photo-orientating polymer network layer, or have locally varying orienting pattern. These optical components are useful in transmittance and reflective liquid crystal displays, such as rotation cells, STN cells, ferroelectric cells, and cells having an addressable active matrix. Such cells are useful in optical and integrated optical devices, and may be used for safeguarding against counterfeiting and copying in transmission.
摘要:
A method of imparting a property to a material, the property being that cross-linkable monomeric or pre-polymeric liquid crystal molecules which may be placed on the layer would adopt preferred alignment. The method comprises exposing the material to unpolarised or circularly polarised radiation from an oblique direction, wherein the material is, for example, cross-linked by the irradiation, allowing monomeric or pre-polymeric liquid crystal molecules applied to or mixed with the exposed material to adopt the preferred alignment and while aligned cross-linking them. The invention also relates to LCD elements incorporating a preferred alignment.
摘要:
Orientation layers of monomeric or polymeric liquid crystal layers having any desired azimuthal orientation direction and a tilt angle are produced by irradiating at an angle differing from the normal to the surface photopolymers orienting parallel to linearly polarized light.
摘要:
A driving method comprising providing preparatory pulses to each pixel, which establish a predetermined voltage prior to the data pulses. The preparatory pulses may either unload the pixel to a resulting potential of 0 V or load it to a resulting voltage of the same polarity as the charge on the pixel in the subsequent frame time.
摘要:
An optical component having a hybrid layer structure includes an orienting layer, a further layer in contact with the orienting layer and incorporating a cross-linked liquid crystalline monomer and at least one additional orienting layer on top of the liquid crystalline layer, and preferably includes one additional cross-linked liquid crystalline monomer. The layers have different functions, such as orienting or retarding. At least one of the orienting layers should be a photo-orientating polymer network layer, or have locally varying orienting pattern. These optical components are useful in transmittance and reflective liquid crystal displays, such as rotation cells, STN cells, ferroelectric cells, and cells having an addressable active matrix. Such cells are useful in optical and integrated optical devices, and may be used for safeguarding against counterfeiting and copying in transmission.
摘要:
The commercial production of DHF (Deformed Helix Ferroelectric) cells, in particular DHF color display cells, has scarcely become established to date. This is in particular because the DHF cells required for this purpose and based on the known prior art have short switching times and a good angular range of view but relatively high voltages and currents are required for their operation. Moreover, for the production of a DHF cell, the liquid crystal mixture must additionally be oriented or formatted by means of an electric field. The present invention relates to a ferroelectric display cell which does not have these disadvantages and in particular is distinguished by the fact thatthe display is dark at U=0 and bright at .vertline.U.vertline.>0,the current-voltage hysteresis characteristic has two maxima of equal size,the birefringence .DELTA.n in the field-free state is greater than that in the saturated state andthe saturation voltage is relatively low even with very small spontaneous polarization P.sub.s (P.sub.s
摘要翻译:DHF(Deformed Helix Ferroelectric)细胞,特别是DHF彩色显示细胞的商业生产迄今为止几乎没有建立。 这特别是因为为此目的而且基于已知现有技术所需的DHF电池具有短的开关时间和良好的视角范围,但它们的操作需要相对高的电压和电流。 此外,为了生产DHF电池,液晶混合物必须通过电场另外定向或格式化。 本发明涉及不存在这些缺点的铁电显示单元,特别是由于在U = 0时显示为暗且在| U |> 0处亮度,电流 - 电压滞后特性具有两个最大值 相同尺寸的情况下,无场态下的双折射率DELTA n大于饱和状态下的双折射率,即使具有非常小的自发极化Ps(Ps <5nC / cm 2),饱和电压也相对较低。