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Alexander Hahn

Peer Kirsch

Michael Heckmeier

Andreas Taugerbeck

Eike Poetsch

Volker Meyer

Melanie Klasen-Memmer

Achim Goetz

Werner Binder

Constanze Brocke

Qiong Tong

Andreas Ruhl

Joachim Krause

Atsutaka Manabe

Mark John Goulding

Kevin Adlem

Martin Engel

Warren L Duffy

Georg Luessem

Helga Haas

Georg Lüssem

Sven Baran

Sebastian Hofmeyer

Harald Hirschmann

Michael Junge

Junyou Pan

Andreas Beyer

Ursula Patwal

Christian Hock

Minghui Yang

Sven Christian Laut

Christoph Marten

Kaja Christina Deing

Susann Beck

Eveline Baron

Julian Vogt

Shih-Chieh Hung

Kuang-Ting Chou

Leo Weegels

Sven Schuepfer

Steffen Gnauck

Chi-Shun Huang

Philipp Wucher

Hee-Kyu Lee

Peter Leonhard

Claudia Enders

Warren Duffy

A liquid-crystal (LC) material having negative dielectric anisotropy and the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, such as for example in LC displays, in particular energy saving displays based on the ECB, IPS or FFS effect, where the liquid crystal medium contains one or more compounds of formula I and one or more compounds compounds of formulae IIA, IIB, IIC and IID

Liquid-crystal medium

The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase and dielectric anisotropy of 0.5 or more, which comprises one or more compounds of formula T  and the other parameters have the meanings given in the text,to the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type, and to the compounds of formula T and their use for the improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds.

Thiophene compound, liquid-crystalline medium and liquid-crystal display comprising the same

Polymerizable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising them, and the use of the polymerizable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the polymer sustained alignment type, or a stabilizers in LC media and LC displays.

Polymerizable compounds and the use thereof in liquid-crystal displays

A liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase and dielectric anisotropy of 0.5 or more, which comprises one or more compounds of formula T  denotes and the use thereof in an electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, to displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type, and to the compounds of formula T and their use for the improvement of the transmission and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which contains one or more additional mesogenic compounds.

The present invention relates to the use of hydrophilic compounds of the formula I as photopolymerisation initiators of polymerisable substance mixtures which comprise unsaturated compounds, or for the photochemical crosslinking of linear polymers, in which the parameters have the meaning indicated in Claim, to sealants for liquid-crystal displays which comprise the hydrophilic photoinitiators, to novel hydrophilic photoinitiators of the formula I, and to the liquid-crystal displays produced using these sealants.

Benzil monoketals and the use thereof

The present invention relates to polymerizable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid-crystal (LC) media and LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PS ('polymer sustained') or PSA ('polymer sustained alignment') type.

The present application relates to a device for regulating the passage of energy from an outside space into an inside space, where the device comprises a switching layer comprising one or more dichroic dyes of a formula (I) or formula (II).

Device for controlling the passage of energy, containing a dichroic dye compound

The present invention relates to polymerizable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to liquid-crystal (LC) media comprising them, and to the use of the polymerizable compounds and LC media for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the polymer sustained alignment type.

Polymerisable compounds and the use thereof in liquid-crystal displays

Polymerizable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid-crystal (LC) media and LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PS ('polymer sustained') or PSA ('polymer sustained alignment') type.

The present invention relates to polymerisable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid-crystal (LC) media and LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PS (polymer stabilised) and PSA (polymer sustained alignment) type.

Liquid crystal display

The chroman compounds of the formula I according to the inventionR-(A-Z)&#x2014;W&#x2014;(Z-A)-Z&#x2014;W&#x2014;(Z-A)-Rin which R, A, A, A, W, W, Z, Z, Z, Z, a, b and c have the meanings indicated in claim, have two moieties Wand Wderived from chroman. The compounds are suitable as components of anisotropic switching media, as used, for example, in liquid-crystal display devices.

Chroman compounds

The invention relates to tetrahydropyran derivatives of the general formula I and to processes for the preparation thereof. 

Tetrahydropyran derivatives

Liquid-crystalline compounds of the formula I in whichR, A, A, Z, Z, X, a, b, L, Land Lare as defined herein, and to liquid-crystalline media comprising at least one compound of the formula I and to electro-optical displays containing a liquid-crystalline medium of this type.

Liquid-crystalline compounds

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds containing at least one &#x2014;CF&#x2014;O&#x2014; bridge in the molecule, in which

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The invention relates to liquid-crystalline compounds of the formula (I), where R, X, L, Y and W are as defined in claim 1, and to the use thereof in liquid-crystalline media, to liquid-crystalline media comprising at least one compound of the formula (I) and to electro-optical displays containing a liquid-crystalline medium of this type 

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Alexander Hahn