Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

Masahiro Funahashi

Junichi Hanna

Masanori Akada

Masayuki Ando

Yozo Kosaka

Kyoko Kogo

Komei Kafuku

Shigeru Sugawara

Hiroki Maeda

Ken Tomino

An organic semiconductor material, enabling to exhibit liquid crystal phase at wide temperature range including at least ordinary temperature and to exhibit high charge carrier mobility, and an organic semiconductor structure and organic semiconductor device formed from the organic semiconductor material. The organic semiconductor material has a quaterthiophene skeleton as shown in a following chemical formula 1, wherein R1 in the chemical formula 1 is an alkyl group of C1 to C20 or a hydrogen, and R2 is an alkyl group of C1 to C20 or a hydrogen.

Organic semiconductor material, organic semiconductor structure, and organic semiconductor device

Liquid crystalline compounds and process for producing the same

A liquid crystalline compound having a novel structure and a process for producing the same are provided. The liquid crystalline compound is represented by the following general formula (I):

A process for producing a liquid crystalline compound represented by the following general formula (A): ##STR1##

Liquid crystalline compound and use thereof

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Sagamihara, Japan

Masahiro Funahashi