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

Lg Chemical Ltd.

Merck Kgaa

Owain Llyr Parri

David Coates

Kevin Adlem

Mark John Goulding

Simon Greenfield

Karl Skjonnemand

David Wilkes

Mark Andrew Verrall

Patrick Nolan

Rachel Tuffin

Patricia Eileen Saxton

Martin David Tillin

Tara Perrett

Alison Linda May

Louise Diane Farrand

Shirley Ann Marden

Benjamin Snow

Emma J Brown

Hassan Arasi

Donald Gordon Graham

Peter Le Masurier

Ian Bonny

Jonathan Henry Wilson

Richard Harding

Simon Siemianowski

Joseph Sargent

Eduardo Beltran Gracia

Stephen Mulcahy

Kim Slaney

Graham Smith

Ian Victor Hassall

Rebecca Proctor

Mariam Namutebi

Tara Cutler

Seung-Eun Lee

James Hanmer

Heui-Seok Jin

Ian Victor Edward Hassall

Jeremy Ward

Roger Kemp

Christopher Peter Worrall

Sang-Kyu Lee

Keith Wilbourn

John Scott

David Joicey

Colum Dickson

Sarah Whitehouse

Won-Hoon Park

Laura Ramon-Gimenez

Vicki Cook

Detlef Pauluth

Michael Heckmeier

Melanie Klasen-Memmer

Kazuaki Tarumi

George W Gray

Byoung Kun Jeon

Andreas Taugerbeck

Izumi Saito

Dagmar Klass

Stephen Christopher Kitson

Philip Edward May

Mark James

Stephan Derow

Georg Bernatz

Carsten Fritzsch

Jeong Su Yu

Claire Topping

Ashley Nathan Smith

Georg Lüssem

Mark A Verrall

Matthew Francis

Nathan Smith

Iain Gardiner

Jack Bradford

Sarabjot Kaur

James Allen

Julian Frederick Samuel Vaughan-Spickers

Vicki Poole

Geoffrey Luckhurst

David Sherrington

Julian Vaughan-Spickers

Oleg Yaroshchuck

Peter (Fangyun) Hsu

Sergey Vasilyevich Belyaev

An optical component is described which contains a liquid crystal (LC) medium, operable in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The LC medium, which can be used in the infrared (IR) region, can contain one or more compounds of the formulae I, II, and III

Optical component

An optical component and a electro optical devices comprising the optical component. Further, a cholesteric polymerizable liquid crystalline (LC) material, preferably utilized in an optical component in accordance with the present invention, a process for the production of the cholesteric polymerizable LC material, a process to convert the cholesteric polymerizable material into a polymer film, a polymer film obtainable from the cholesteric polymerizable LC material, and the use of the polymer films in an optical component or device comprising a polymer film.

Polymerizable LC material and polymer film

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

A polymerizable LC material comprising one or more reactive mesogenic compounds, one or more chiral compounds and a block copolymer that comprises at least one polyfluorooxetane block bonded to a polyether block, said polyfluorooxetane block having a repeating unit of the formula Further, a method for its preparation, a polymer film obtainable from a corresponding polymerizable LC material, a method of preparation of such polymer film, and the use of such polymer film and said polymerizable LC material in optical, electro-optical, decorative or security devices.

Polymerizable liquid crystal material and polymerized liquid crystal film

The invention relates to a reactive mesogen (RM) formulation comprising a conductive additive, to a polymer film obtained thereof, and the use of the RM formulation and polymer film in optical or electrooptical components or devices, like optical retardation films for liquid crystal displays (LCDs).

Reactive mesogen formulation with conductive additive

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 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 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 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 invention relates to a method of preparing a polymer film and to the use of such polymer film as in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) or other optical or electrooptical devices, for decorative or security applications, as alignment layer or optical retardation film.

Method of preparing a birefringent polymer film

The invention relates to mesogenic media comprising  

Mesogenic media and liquid crystal display

The invention relates to reactive mesogens (RMs) comprising a terphenyl group, to mixtures and formulations comprising them, to polymers obtained form such RMs and RM mixtures, and the use of the RMs, RM mixtures and polymers in optical or electrooptical components or devices, like optical retardation films for liquid crystal displays (LCDs).

Reactive mesogens

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