Merck Patent Gmbh

Merck Patent Gesellschaft MIT Beschrankter Haftung

Merck Patent Gesellschaft

Merck Patent Gesellschaft MIT Beschraenkter Haftung

Merck Gmbh

Juliane Suermann

Joachim Krause

Peer Kirsch

Detlef Pauluth

Michael Heckmeier

Andreas Taugerbeck

Mark John Goulding

David Coates

Sabine Schoen

Harald Hirschmann

Bernhard Rieger

Michael Junge

Ulrich Finkenzeller

Ursula Patwal

Volker Hilarius

Edgar Boehm

Axel Pausch

Matthew Francis

Leticia Garcia Diez

Dagmar Zimmermann

Antje Mühlfeld

Meike Krumwiede

Thomas Jacob

The present invention relates to vessels comprising a formulation including at least one organic semiconductor, wherein the formulation is in contact with at least one absorption material. The invention further describes a process for producing the vessel and for the use thereof.

Receptacle comprising a formulation containing at least one organic semiconductor

The invention relates to a liquid crystal medium with a highly twisted structure, to the use of said medium for optoelectronic applications in the fields of non-linear optics (NLO) and laser optics and to electrooptic devices, displays and lasers containing said medium.

Liquid crystal medium and liquid crystal display with a highly twisted structure

The invention relates to chiral compounds of formula I wherein X, X, X, X, x, x, y, y, B, C, U, U, V, V, Wand Whave the meaning given in claim, to liquid crystal mixtures comprising at least one chiral compound of formula I, to chiral linear or crosslinked liquid crystal polymers obtainable by polymerizing a polymerizable mixture comprising at least one chiral compound of formula I, to the use of chiral compound of formula I and mixtures and polymers obtained thereof in liquid crystal displays, active and passive optical elements, adhesives, synthetic resins with anisotropic mechanical properties, cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions, diagnostics, liquid crystal pigments, for decorative and security applications, nonlinear optics, optical information storage or as chiral dopants, and to a liquid crystal display comprising a mixture comprising at least one chiral compound of formula I.

Chiral compounds

The invention relates to chiral compounds of formula I wherein X,X,X,X,x,x,y,y,B,C,U,U,V,V,Wand Whave the meaning given in claim, to liquid crystal mixtures comprising at least one chiral compound of formula I, to chiral linear or crosslinked liquid crystal polymers obtainable by polymerizing a polymerizade mixture comprising at least one chiral compound of formula I, to the use of chiral compound of formula I and mixtures and polymers obtained thereof in liquid crystal display, active and passive optical elements, adhesives, synthetic resins with anisotropic mechanical properties, cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions, diagnostics, liquid crystal pigments, for decorative and security applications, nonlinear optics, optical information storage or as chiral dopants, and to a liquid crystal display comprising a mixture comprising at least one chiral compound of formula I.

The invention relates to TN and STN liquid-crystal displays and to the nematic liquid-crystal mixtures used therein, characterised in that they comprise one or more compounds of the formula I and one or more compounds of the formula II in which ring A, R, Rand Y are as defined in Claim

Liquid crystal mixtures

The present invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium having high twist, to the use thereof for electro-optical purposes, and to displays containing this medium.

Liquid-crystalline medium and liquid-crystal display having high twist

To provide an electro-optical liquid-crystal displays with low addressing voltages and low to moderate multiplex ratios, in particular STN displays, organic alignment layers of low layer thickness are utilized.

Electro-optical liquid-crystal display

TN and STN liquid-crystal displays

Liquid-crystal medium, and electro-optical liquid-crystal display

The invention relates to a ferroelectric liquid-crystalline medium having improved low-temperature behavior, pronounced bistability and a phase sequence containing the phases isotropic, cholesteric, smectic A and chiral smectic C, comprising an achiral base material having a broad smectic C phase and at least one chiral dope which induces a spontaneous polarization of from 5 to 40 nCcm.sup.-2 in the achiral base material, characterized in that the medium has a chiral smectic C phase which is stable at least to -30.degree. C., and to the use thereof in electro-optical devices.

Ferroelectric liquid-crystalline media, and their use in electro-optical

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