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Kevin Adlem

Owain Llyr Parri

David Wilkes

Rachel Tuffin

Patricia Eileen Saxton

Karl Skjonnemand

Louise Diane Farrand

Hassan Arasi

Mark John Goulding

John Patrick

Benjamin Snow

Herbert Plach

Achim Goetz

Georg Bernatz

Joseph Sargent

Peter Best

Cecile Schott

Ian Charles Sage

Eduardo Beltran Gracia

Stephen Mulcahy

Iain Gardiner

Mariam Namutebi

Naomi Weare

Alex Davis

Eike Poetsch

Peer Kirsch

Michael Heckmeier

Melanie Klasen-Memmer

Harald Hirschmann

Rocco Fortte

Seung-Eun Lee

Alexander Hahn

Volker Meyer

Werner Binder

Warren L Duffy

Simon Siemianowski

Georg Lüssem

Heui-Seok Jin

Rebecca Proctor

Jack Bradford

Sang-Kyu Lee

Vicki Poole

Hassan Norouzi-arasi

Won-Hoon Park

James Allen

Matthias Bremer

Detlef Pauluth

Michael Wittek

Andreas Taugerbeck

Lars Lietzau

Martin Heeney

Izumi Saito

Graziano Archetti

Mark Goebel

Norihiko Tanaka

Edward Plummer

Claire Topping

Martina Weidner

Helga Haas

Matthew Francis

Nathan Smith

Graham Smith

Renate Graulich

Ming-Chou Wu

Christopher John Dunn

Sven Schuepfer

Vicki Cook

Janice McCreary

Owain Ilyr Parri

Geoffrey Luckhurst

Robert Harding

Patricia Saxton

Thomas Macgregor

Alex Holt

Patricia Eilen Saxton

Christopher J Dunn

Owain Llyr Parry

Warren Duffy

Reactive mesogens (RMs), mixtures and formulations comprising RMs, polymers obtained from such RMs and RM mixtures, and the use of the RMs, RM mixtures and polymers in optical or electrooptical components or devices, like optical films for liquid crystal displays (LCDs).

Reactive mesogens

The invention relates to a polymerisable LC medium with flat, negative or positive optical dispersion, a polymer film with flat, negative or positive optical dispersion obtainable from such a material, and the use of the polymerisable LC medium and polymer film in optical, electro optical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.

Polymerisable LC medium and polymer film with flat optical dispersion

The invention relates to a polymerisable LC material comprising at least one di- or multireactive mesogenic compound of formula T,R-(AZ)-G-(Z-A)-R  Tand at least one compound of formula CO-1, wherein the parameter are R, A, Z, m1, G, Z, A, m2, R, Lto L, Rand R, and n are defined as given in claim Furthermore, the present invention relates also to a method for its preparation, a polymer film with improved thermal durability obtainable from the corresponding polymerisable LC material, to a method of preparation of such polymer film, and to the use of such polymer film and said polymerisable LC material for optical, electro-optical, decorative or security devices.

Polymerisable liquid crystal material and polymerised liquid crystal film

Suggested are new adhesion promoters, which are particular suitable for use in displays. Its inclusion in the polymerisable LC mixture results in an excellent adhesion on substrate without colouration over time i.e. compared to amino siloxanes. The new additives have no effect on alignment of LC on the substrate while improving the adhesion.

UV curable adhesion promoters based on functionalised polyvinyl alcohols

The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a homogeneous aligned liquid crystal polymer film, a polymer film obtainable from the corresponding method of production, and to the use of such polymer film for optical components and electro-optical decorative, as well as to components and devices comprising such polymer film.

Method for the preparation of a liquid crystal polymer film

Compounds of formula I,(RO)Si(CH)-Sp-NR-Sp-C(OR)H&#x2003;&#x2003;Iwherein the variable groups are as defined herein are useful as adhesion promotors in polymerizable liquid crystal (LC) material.

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

Bimesogenic compounds of formula I and their use in liquid crystal media and in flexoelectric liquid crystal devices.

Bimesogenic compounds and mesogenic media

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 invention relates to bimesogenic compounds of formula I wherein R, R, MG, MG, X, Xand Sphave the meaning given in claim, to the use of bimesogenic compounds of formula l in liquid crystal media and particular to flexoelectric liquid crystal devices comprising a liquid crystal medium according to the present invention.

The invention relates to a polymerizable LC medium with negative optical dispersion, a polymer film with negative optical dispersion obtainable from such a medium, and the use of the polymerizable LC medium and polymer film in optical, electro optical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.

Polymerisable LC medium and polymer film with negative optical dispersion

The invention relates to bimesogenic compounds of formula I wherein R, R, MG, MG, X, Xand Sphave the meaning given in claim, to the use of bimesogenic compounds of formula I in liquid crystal media and particular to flexoelectric liquid crystal devices comprising a liquid crystal medium according to the present invention.

Disclosed are compounds of formula I the use of compounds of formula I in liquid crystal media and in particular to flexoelectric liquid crystal devices containing the liquid crystal media.

Compounds and mesogenic media

The present invention relates to liquid crystal media comprising polymerizable mesogenic compounds with a bent shape, and to electro-optical displays comprising these media as light modulation media. In particular the electro-optical displays according to the present invention are displays, which are operated at a temperature, at which the liquid crystal modulation media are in an optically isotropic phase, preferably in a blue phase.

Polymerisable mesogenic compound, liquid crystal medium and liquid crystal display

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