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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2001
Michael Heckmeier, Hemsbach, DE;
Melanie Klasen-memmer, Heuchelheim, DE;
Georg Lüssem, Ober-Ramstadt, DE;
Kazuaki Tarumi, Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE;
David Coates, Wimborne, GB;
Owain Llyr Parri, Poole, GB;
Mark Verrall, Salisbury Wiltshire, GB;
Mark John Goulding, Ringwood, GB;
Stephen Christopher Kitson, South Gloucestershire, GB;
Michael Heckmeier, Hemsbach, DE;
Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Heuchelheim, DE;
Georg Lüssem, Ober-Ramstadt, DE;
Kazuaki Tarumi, Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE;
David Coates, Wimborne, GB;
Owain Llyr Parri, Poole, GB;
Mark Verrall, Salisbury Wiltshire, GB;
Mark John Goulding, Ringwood, GB;
Stephen Christopher Kitson, South Gloucestershire, GB;
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to an alignment layer comprising a polymerized liquid crystal material with homeotrophic orientation, to methods of its preparation, to polymerizable liquid crystal compositions and liquid crystal polymers used for the preparation of the alignment layer, to liquid crystal devices comprising the alignment layer, and to a method of controlling the electrooptical steepness of a liquid crystal display comprising at least one alignment layer by varying the surface anchoring energy of the alignment layer.