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Lg Chemical Ltd.

Karl Skjonnemand

Owain Llyr Parri

Kevin Adlem

David Wilkes

Mark Andrew Verrall

Tara Perrett

Kim Slaney

Byoung Kun Jeon

Seung-Eun Lee

Rachel Tuffin

Patricia Eileen Saxton

Jeong Su Yu

Heui-Seok Jin

Sang-Kyu Lee

Won-Hoon Park

Moon Soo Park

Ian Charles Sage

Rocco Fortte

Alison Linda May

Graziano Archetti

Mark Goebel

Richard Harding

Simon Siemianowski

Shirley Ann Marden

Donald Gordon Graham

Ian Victor Edward Hassall

Rebecca Proctor

Alex Davis

Janice McCreary

Owin Parri

Julian Vaughan-Spickers

Oleg Yaroshchuck

Geoffrey Luckhurst

Sergey Vasilyevich Belyaev

Owain Llyr Parry

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 provides a light modulation element comprising a flexoelectric polarisable liquid-crystalline medium, characterized in that the switching from a boundary state A to a boundary state B comprises a combination of a distinct flexoelectric switching regime and a distinct dielectric switching regime upon application of an electric field. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of such a light modulation element in an electro-optical device, i.e. an LCD display device, and electrooptical devices comprising the light modulation element according to the present invention. Moreover, the invention relates to a method of production of the light modulation element according to the present invention.

Light modulation element

The instant invention relates to liquid crystalline media comprising

Liquid crystalline medium and liquid crystal display

The invention relates to a polymer film having negative optical dispersion, novel polymerisable compounds and liquid crystal (LC) materials for its preparation, and the use of the polymer film and novel compounds and materials in optical, electrooptical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.

Birefringent polymer film with negative optical dispersion

The invention relates to novel calamitic mesogenic compounds which are especially suitable for use in birefringent films with negative optical dispersion, to novel liquid crystal (LC) formulations and polymer films comprising them, and to the use of the compounds, formulations and films in optical, electrooptical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.

Calamitic mesogenic compounds

The invention relates to a method of aligning reactive mesogens (RM) on a substrate subjected to particle beam treatment, to RM's oriented by said method, especially in form of thin layers, to oriented polymers and polymer films obtained from such oriented RM's and RM layers, and to the use of the RM's, layers, polymers and films in optical, electronic and electrooptical applications.

Particle beam process for the alignment of reactive mesogens

The invention relates to novel fluorene derivatives, which are especially suitable for use in birefringent films with negative optical dispersion, to novel liquid crystal (LC) formulations and polymer films comprising them, and to the use of the fluorene derivatives, formulations and films in optical, electrooptical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.

Fluorene derivatives

The invention relates to novel mesogenic dimeric compounds which are especially suitable for use in birefringent films with negative optical dispersion, to novel liquid crystal (LC) formulations and polymer films comprising them, and to the use of the dimers, formulations and films in optical, electrooptical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.

Mesogenic dimers

The invention relates to a birefringent layer having negative optical dispersion, a liquid crystal (LC) medium for its preparation, and the use of the birefringent layer and the LC media in optical, electrooptical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.

Birefringent layer with negative optical dispersion

The invention relates to an optically biaxial film with cholesteric structure, methods and materials for its preparation, its use as retardation or compensation film in optical devices like liquid crystal displays, and to compensators and liquid crystal displays comprising such a biaxial retardation film.

Biaxial film

The invention relates to a negative birefringent retardation film comprising polymerised liquid crystal (LC) material with helically twisted structure and planar orientation, its use in compensators and electrooptical displays like liquid crystal displays, and to compensators and liquid crystal displays comprising such a negative retardation film.

Negative retardation film

The invention relates to a compensated liquid crystal display (LCD) of the bend mode, in particular of the optically compensated bend (OCB) or pi-cell mode, and to a compensator for use in an LCD of the bend mode. The compensator comprises at least an A-plate, an O-plate and a negative C-plate.

Compensated liquid crystal display of the bend mode

The invention relates to a polymerised liquid crystal (LC) film comprising at least one photoisomerisable compound and having a pattern of regions with different retardation and/or different orientation of the LC material, to methods of preparing such a film, and to its use as alignment layer, optical retardation film or optical waveguide in liquid crystal displays or other optical or electrooptical components or devices, or for decorative or security applications.

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