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The Secretary of State for Defense in Her Britannic Majesty's Government

The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Brittanic Majesty's Government

The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Majesty's Government of the

The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Brittanic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Brittanic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland

Ian Charles Sage

David Coates

Simon Greenfield

John Clifford Jones

Volker Reiffenrath

Damien Gerard McDonnell

David Lacey

John A Jenner

Georg Weber

Andreas Wachtler

Emma Louise Wood

Joachim Krause

Kenneth J Toyne

Thomas Geelhaar

Guy Peter Bryan-Brown

Rachel Tuffin

Madeline J Bradshaw

David I Bishop

Michelle Jones

Keith Moray Blackwood

George W Gray

Kevin Adlem

Edward P Raynes

Michael Hird

Timothy Ingram Cox

Alan W Hall

William James Feast

Joseph Sargent

David J Combes

Mark A Verrall

Alex Davis

Rocco Fortte

Ulrich Finkenzeller

Andrew John Slaney

Richard John Peace

Graham Smith

Robert William Clemitson

Stephen J Lewis

Paul Anthony Gass

Michael K Chambers

David W Baxter

Wendy H Howie

Ian D Brotherston

Norman J Geddes

Eike Poetsch

Herbert Plach

Reinhard Hittich

Bernhard Scheuble

Bernhard Rieger

Lars Lietzau

Izumi Saito

John William Goodby

Hans A Kurmeier

Karl Skjonnemand

Karl Osterried

Graziano Archetti

Mark Goebel

Timothy Ashley

Shoichi Matsumoto

Simon Siemianowski

Anthony Bernard Davey

Keith Loder Lewis

Lawrence Kam Chan

Kevin Michael Brunson

Edward Plummer

Carl Vernon Brown

Helga Haas

Keith M Blackwood

Hassan Arasi

Roger Kemp

John Henry Jefferson

Ian Robert Mason

Victor Chaklam Hui

Robert A Smith

David Richard Beattie

Hitoshi Tomii

Robert Andrew Lewis

Richard Simon Blacker

Claus Escher

Pauluth Detlef

Grant H Bourhill

Iain Oswald

Dominic Chaplin

Magarete Herbski

Kathryn E Foster

Peter H Balkwill

Andrew D Pearson

John S Lewis

Stephen J Till

Phil Baker

Philip D Buckle

Russell A Noble

Owain Llyr Paari

Carl Brown

Alex Holt

Philip Baker

Rachel Patricia Tuffin

The invention relates to a light modulation element comprising a pair of substrates, one or more optical films located on the inner side of one of the substrates, an electrode structure capable of inducing an electric field substantially in parallel to the substrates main plane, and a homogenously aligned liquid crystalline medium which is obtainable from a photoalignment component A) and a liquid-crystalline component B). Furthermore, the invention relates process of production of the light modulation element, to the use of the light modulation element in an electro optical device and to an electro optical device comprising said light modulation element.

Light modulation element

The invention relates to a liquid crystal mixture characterised in that it comprises one or more photoreactive mesogens of formula I wherein the parameters and groups occurring are defined as indicated in claim, to a process for the fabrication of liquid crystal displays using these liquid crystal mixtures and to a liquid crystal display obtainable by this process. The invention further relates to new compounds of formula I.

Liquid crystal mixture and liquid crystal display

The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device wherein a liquid crystal mixture having positive dielectric anisotropy or negative dielectric anisotropy is interposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, the liquid crystal mixture comprising liquid crystal molecules, a self assembling photoalignment agent, a polymerisable compound, and wherein said LC mixture is photoaligned by irradiation with linearly polarised ultraviolet light and then cured by irradiation with ultraviolet light.

Method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal mixture

The invention relates to cinnamic acid derivatives of formula S wherein the radicals have the meaning indicated in claimto a process for their preparation and their use as self assembling photoalignment agent in liquid crystal mixtures. The invention further relates to a process for the fabrication of a liquid crystal (LC) display device with homogeneous alignment by photoaligning a liquid crystal mixture with positive or negative dielectric anisotropy comprising one or more compounds of formula S and optionally a polymerizable compound, to the liquid crystal mixture comprising the self assembling photoaligning agent and optionally the polymerizable compound and to the LC display produced by said process.

Cinnamic acid derivatives

The present invention relates to an electro-rheological fluid comprising particles of at least one inorganic or organic material suspended in a polar liquid crystalline medium, the use of such electro-rheological fluid in an haptic device, an haptic device itself, a method of the production of such haptic device and the use of such haptic device in electro-optical devices.

Electro-rheological fluid and haptic device

Isopotential heaters used in the preconcentration stage of sample detection systems are described. The heaters have at least two electrically conducting paths of which the resistances of the electrically conducting baths are substantially equal such that in use uniform heat distribution is achieved.

Heater device

Improved preconcentrators, particularly MEMs scale preconcentrators which possess a coating comprising polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs). There is further provided devices comprising the preconcentrator, and methods of preparation and use. There is particular benefit directed to the use of a MEMs scale heater coated with the PIMs for use in hand-held or field portable chemical detection devices. The polymer of intrinsic microporosity comprises a polymer, with a monomer repeat unit of Formula I wherein A is one or more optionally substituted aryl, heterocyclic, cycloalkyl or bicycloalkyl rings, &#x3c0; is greater than 5, preferably 5 to 10000, and X may be selected from CH, CH, O, S, N or NH.

Preconcentrator device

A molecular single electron transistor (MSET) detector device () is described that comprises at least one organic molecule () connecting a drain electrode () and a source electrode (). In use, said at least one organic molecule () provides a quantum confinement region. At least one analyte receptor site () is provided in the vicinity of said at least one organic molecule () that bind molecules of interest (analytes). A fluid analyser () is also described that includes the MSET detector, a pre-concentrator () and a fluid gating structure (). The fluid gating structure () is arranged to selectively route fluid from the pre-concentrator () to either one of the detector () and an exhaust port (). The pre-concentrator (), fluid gating structure () and detector () are each formed as substantially planar layers and arranged in a stack or cube.

Molecular single electron transistor (MSET) detector device

A bistable display device comprises two cell walls enclosing a sheet having a plurality of cavities each containing a rotatable bicoloured sphere within a liquid crystal material carrier (), and electrodes for applying an electrical field. The spheres and cavities are provided with a surface alignment which imposes a substantially unidirectional director alignment on the liquid crystal material in contact with them. The elastic distortion free energy of the liquid crystal material in each cavity is arranged to be zero when the preferred direction of the suspended spheres coincides with that of the surrounding cavity, e.g. black upwards. It is also zero when the sphere is rotated through 180&#xb0; to present its opposite hemisphere which has a contrasting optical appearance, e.g. black downwards. Between these two states, there is an energetic barrier determined by the elastic constants of the liquid crystal which provides both a threshold for switching and improved bistability. During production of the sheet, alignment may be enhanced by application of an electric or magnetic field during curing or cooling of the components. The display may be addressed in a known multiplexed manner.

Bistable display device having plural cavities containing rotatable bicolored particles within a liquid crystal carrier

This invention relates to various phosphine oxides and their use in applications which exploit the triboluminescent effect.

Triboluminescent materials and devices

The invention relates to various materials and their use in applications which exploit the triboluminescent effect.

Triboluminescent materials comprising M wherein M is chosen from Tb, Eu, Sm, Dy and from 75% to 99.99% of M is replaced by Y, Gd, La or Lu.

Photoluminescent compounds

Organic light emitting diode devices having a substrate bearing an organic layer sandwiched between electrode structures. The organic layer includes, in a single layer a hole transporter, an electron transporter and a light emitter where the electron transporter or the light emitter or the electron transporter and the light emitter include a material of general formula 1.

Organic light emitting material and device

Liquid crystal devices are formed by a layer of a liquid crystal material enclosed between two cell walls, both carrying electrode structures, and one or both walls treated to align molecules of the liquid crystal material. Most alignment treatment give alignment and surface pretilt with a strong azimuthal and zenithal anchoring energy to contacting liquid crystal molecules. The invention reduces at least one of the azimuthal zenithal or translational anchoring energy to improve switching characteristics and optical performance by allowing movement of liquid crystal molecules at or close to the cell wall. The reduction of anchoring energy may be achieved by an oligomer or short chain polymer which is either spread on the surface or added to the liquid crystal material. The size of oligomer or short chain polymer is low enough that it does not appreciably phase separate from the liquid crystal material. The polymer layer has the characteristics of having imperfect solubility in the liquid crystal material used in the device, of having a physical affinity for the surface of the substrate, and of retaining a substantially liquid like surface at the polymer/liquid crystal interface. The polymer may be formed by polymerisation of reactive low molecular weight materials in solution in the liquid crystal fluid. The resulting solution or dispersion of polymer in liquid crystal is then filled into the cell, and the polymer is allowed to coat the substrate surfaces.

Liquid crystal device alignment

This invention relates to an organic semiconductor device comprising a substrate bearing an organic layer sandwiched between electrode structures wherein the organic layer comprises a polymer of general Formula (I): wherein X is selected from H, CN, F, Cl, Br, COOCH . Y is given by the following general Formula (II): wherein A is a phenyl group which may be further substituted in 1 or 2 or 3 positions with groups independently selected from C alkyl, CN, F, Cl; B and C are both phenyl groups which may be further substituted, independently of each other, in 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 positions with groups independently selected from C alkyl, CN, F, Cl; A, B and C may also be, independently of each other, selected from pyrimidine, pyridazine and pyridine; m&equals;5-20,000.

Conducting polymers

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