2120 results about "Dielectric anisotropy" patented technology

A common electrode substrate has a transparent insulating substrate to be arranged opposite to an array substrate having pixel electrodes formed in respective pixel regions that are defined by a plurality of gate bus lines and drain bus lines. The substrate holds a liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy. A common electrode is formed on the transparent insulating substrate; alignment regulating structures having linear protrusions are formed on the common electrode; and a light shield film is formed on the transparent insulating substrate with overlap regions that overlap the pixel electrodes when viewed in the direction perpendicular to a surface of the transparent insulating substrate, so as to shield, from light, alignment defective regions of the liquid crystal formed in regions of end portions of the pixel electrodes.

An MVA liquid crystal display which is high in brightness and has preferable characteristics is provided. Further, the MVA liquid crystal display with a preferable display quality as well as a larger margin in fabrication and a higher yield is provided. A first substrate having a first electrode, a second substrate having a second electrode corresponding to a display pixel, the liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy sealed between the first and the second substrates, and a structure which is provided on each of the first and the second substrate to control an alignment of the liquid crystal are provided. The structure in the first substrate has a linear protrusion structure and provides at least two auxiliary protrusion structures opposing to each end portion facing to the second electrode extending from a protrusion structure provided and the width between the two auxiliary protrusions and the opposing second electrode is more than 6 mum respectively.

The invention provides a liquid crystal compound that has an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds and also has at least one of characteristics such as a high stability to heat, light or the like, a suitable refractive index anisotropy (Δn), a low threshold voltage and a suitable dielectric anisotropy (Δ∈). A compound represented by formula (1).For example, R1 is alkyl having 1 to 10 carbons, R2 is halogen or alkenyl having 2 to 10 carbons; the ring A1, the ring A2 and the ring A3 are 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; Z1, Z2 and Z3 are a single bond or alkylene having 1 to 4 carbons; G is —CH2— or —O—; and m is 1, and n and p is 0 or 1.

Disclosed are an optical compensator element, which can realize switching between a wide angle of visibility and a narrow angle of visibility through a simple operation, and a liquid crystal display using the same. An optical compensation layer 4B′ comprising, for example, a liquid crystal material having positive dielectric anisotropy sealed between two substrates comprising a transparent electrode and an aligning film stacked on top of each other is provided. An optical compensation layer 4A as a negative C plate and the optical compensation layer 4B′ are stacked in that order on a homeotropically aligned liquid crystal cell 2A to constitute a liquid crystal display 1. Upon the application of voltage to the optical compensation layer 4B′, a narrow angle of visibility is provided, while, when no voltage is applied, a wide angle of visibility is provided.

The invention relates to a liquid crystal mixture for a display, which comprises the following compounds in percentage by weight: 70 to 90 percent of compound in a general formula I, 0 to 20 percent of compound in a general formula II, 5 to 25 percent of compound in a general formula III, 0 to 10 percent of compound in a general formula IV and 1 to 15 percent of compound in a formula V. Through optimal combination and optical proportioning, the anisotropyenergy of the negative dielectric of the liquid crystal mixture reaches -9.5, a clearing point is between 95 and 110DEG C, the driving voltage is very low, the energy consumption can be effectively reduced, and a liquid crystal display (hereinafter referred to as LCD) powered by a battery is powered more durably. The mixture has good intersolubility between monomers, and the solubility of the mixture for dichroic dyes is good; and various single dichroic dyes with different colors can be added to the liquid crystal mixture, so the liquid crystal mixture has good absorbance and dichroic ratio to well realize darker dark state and greatly improve display contrast in the displaying process.

Provided are a vertically aligned liquid crystal display (VA-LCD) with good viewing angle characteristics, which has liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy (Δε<0). In the VA-LCD, a polynorbornene based polymer film is used as a protection film and / or as a negative C-plate retardation film for an upper polarization plate and / or a lower polarization plate. Therefore, high contrast characteristics for a front view and an oblique angle view are realized and color change for an oblique angle view can be minimized.

The present invention relates to liquid-crystalline media (LC media) having negative or positive dielectric anisotropy, comprising a low-molecular-weight component and a polymerizable component. The polymerizable component comprises self-aligning, polymerizable mesogens (polymerizable self-alignment additives) which effect homeotropic (vertical) alignment of the LC media at a surface or the cell walls of a liquid-crystal display (LC display). The invention therefore also encompasses LC displays having homeotropic alignment of the LC medium without alignment layers. The invention discloses novel structures for self-alignment additives which have a certain position of the functional groups.

The invention relates to a liquid crystal display based on an MVA mode of multi-division alignment in which alignment states of liquid crystal molecules having a negative dielectric anisotropy are made different from each other, and provides a liquid crystal display in which a drop in transmittance is suppressed and response characteristics are improved. The liquid crystal display is constructed so as to include a pair of substrates having a predetermined cell gap and arranged opposite to each other, vertical alignment films formed between the pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer sealed between the vertical alignment films and having a negative dielectric anisotropy, an alignment regulating structural member arranged on at least one of the pair of substrates, for regulating a total alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer at a time of voltage application, and a cured material provided in the liquid crystal layer and including a liquid crystal skeleton for tilting the liquid crystal molecules.

A liquid crystal composition is provided that satisfies at least one characteristic among the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or is properly balanced regarding at least two characteristics. An AM device is provided that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific tricyclic compound having a large optical anisotropy as the first component and a specific tetracyclic compound having a large dielectric anisotropy as the second component, and may contain a specific bicyclic compound having a particularly small viscosity as the third component. The liquid crystal composition has a nematic phase. The liquid crystal display device contains the liquid crystal composition.

A liquid crystal composition having a negative dielectric anisotropy that includes three components, wherein the first component is a specific four-ring compound having phenylene, one hydrogen of which is replaced by fluorine, the second component is a specific compound having phenylene, two hydrogens of which are replaced by fluorine or chlorine, and the third component is a specific compound having two cyclohexylene rings, and a liquid crystal display device including the composition.

The present invention discloses a fringe field switching mode liquid crystal display. The disclosed comprises: a lower and an upper substrates disposed opposite to each other at a predetermined distance, having transparency; a counter electrode and a pixel electrode disposed on the inner surface of the lower substrate with a gate insulating layer interposed and made of transparent conductors, forming a fringe field when a electric field is applied; a black matrix and color filter formed on the inner surface of the upper substrate; an ITO layer disposed on the inner surface of the upper substrate which has the black matrix and the color filter therein; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the lower and the upper substrates, including a plurality of liquid crystal molecules of negative dielectric anisotropy. In the FFS mode LCD of the present invention, the counter electrode has a plate shape and the pixel electrode has a slit shape. And the counter electrode has one or more grooves whose width is smaller than that of the slit of the pixel electrode, preferably 2 or 3 mum and the ITO layer includes a window region therein.

The present invention provides a liquid crystal composition with positive dielectric anisotropy, comprising: one or more compounds selected from compounds expressed in general formula I, general formula II, and general formula III, and a combination thereof as a first component; one or more compounds selected from compounds expressed in general formula IV, general formula V, and general formula VI, and a combination thereof as a second component, the dielectric anisotropy of the first component being positive, and the dielectric anisotropy of the second component being negative. The liquid crystal composition not only maintains advantages such as fast response, a low drive voltage, a high clearing point, low rotary viscosity, appropriate optical anisotropy and appropriate dielectric anisotropy of IPS liquid crystal, but also significantly improves the transmittance of the liquid crystal display. Compared with existing IPS liquid crystal with positive dielectric anisotropy, the liquid crystal composition can improve the transmittance by 5 to 20%. The present invention further provides a liquid crystal display including the liquid crystal composition of the present invention and having an IPS display mode.

Such a liquid crystal compound is provided that has stability to heat, light and so forth, has a nematic phase in a wide temperature range, has a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, and suitable elastic constants K33 and K11 (K33: bend elastic constant, K11: splay elastic constant), and has suitable negative dielectric anisotropy and excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds. A liquid crystal composition containing the liquid crystal compound, and a liquid crystal display device containing the liquid crystal composition are also provided. The liquid crystal compound is represented by one of formulas (a) to (d), the liquid crystal composition contains the liquid crystal compound, and the liquid crystal display device contains the liquid crystal composition: wherein Ra and Rb are independently linear alkyl or linear alkoxy, rings A1, A2, B and C are independently trans-1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene, Z11, Z12, Z2 and Z3 are independently a single bond or alkylene, and one of X1 and X2 is fluorine, and the other thereof is chlorine.

A liquid crystal display device that includes: a liquid crystal display panel configured by a pair of substrates sandwiching therebetween a liquid crystal material with a positive dielectric anisotropy; and a flat-shaped common electrode and a pixel electrode disposed on one of the pair of substrates with an overlay, via an insulator layer, between the common electrode and the pixel electrode when viewed from above. In the liquid crystal display device, the pixel electrode is extended in a first direction, and includes a plurality of comb-like electrode sections aligned in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the comb-like electrode sections of the pixel electrode are varied in width in the second direction for a plurality of times at intervals shorter than a side extending in the first direction.

A liquid crystal display device has an opposing substrate on which an opposing electrode is formed, a TFT substrate on which pixel electrodes arranged in matrix, thin film transistors connected to the pixel electrodes respectively, and gate lines and data lines for the thin film transistors are formed, vertical alignment films formed on the opposing inner surfaces of these substrates, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the vertical alignment films and having negative dielectric anisotropy. Each pixel electrode has a slit formed for separating each pixel into a plurality of sub-pixels by partially eliminating the pixel electrode with a connecting portion left at which adjoining electrode portions of each pixel electrode is connected with each other. The width W1 of the pixel electrode that runs in a direction in which the slit is formed and width W2 of the connecting portion have a ratio W2 / W1 of 0.13 or lower.

A TBA-liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal medium with positive dielectric anisotropy, wherein the liquid crystal medium includes, in 100% by weight of the liquid crystal compounds identified by the compounds recited in formulas I through IX below:wherein,R1, R3, R3*, R5, R6, R7, R8, and R9 independently denote C2-5 linear alkyl, preferably propyl or pentyl,R2 denote C4-6 linear alkyl, preferably butyl or pentyl; andR4 denotes C1-3 linear alkyl, preferably methyl.

The subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or that is suitably balanced regarding at least two characteristics. The subject is to provide an AM device that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The invention provides a liquid crystal composition having a negative dielectric anisotropy that contains a specific compound having negatively large dielectric anisotropy as the first component, and has a specific two ring compound having a low viscosity as the second component, and provides a liquid crystal display device containing the composition.

A liquid crystal composition is provided that satisfies at least one characteristic among the characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light and a high stability to heat, or is properly balanced regarding at least two characteristics. An AM device is provided that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific compound having especially negatively large dielectric anisotropy as the first component,a specific bicyclic compound having a small viscosity as the second component, a specific compound having a high maximum temperature as the third component, a specific compound having a negatively large dielectric anisotropy, a low minimum temperature as the fourth component. The liquid crystal composition has a negative dielectric anisotropy. The liquid crystal display device contains the liquid crystal composition.

The subject is to provide a liquid crystal composition that satisfies at least one of characteristics such as a high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, a low minimum temperature of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, a large dielectric anisotropy, a large specific resistance, a high stability to ultraviolet light, a high stability to heat and a large elastic constant, or that is suitably balanced regarding at least two of the characteristics. The subject is to provide an AM device that has a short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, a large contrast ratio, a long service life and so forth. The invention provides a liquid crystal composition that has a nematic phase and includes a four-ring compound containing a dioxane ring and having a high maximum temperature and a large dielectric anisotropy as a first component, a specific two-ring compound having a small viscosity as a second component, a specific three-ring compound having a large dielectric anisotropy as a third component and a specific four-ring compound having a high maximum temperature and a large dielectric anisotropy, and also provides a liquid crystal display device containing this composition.

A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates, wherein liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer have a negative dielectric anisotropy, and the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in a direction substantially vertical to the substrates when no voltage is being applied and are axis-symmetrically aligned in each of a plurality of pixel regions under application of a voltage.

The invention discloses a liquid crystal composition with negative dielectric anisotropy. The liquid crystal composition with negative dielectric anisotropy is characterized by comprising the following ingredients in percentage by weight: 10%-70% of a first-component liquid crystal compound shown in the structural formula (I), 15%-60% of a second-component liquid crystal compound shown in the structural formula (II), 2%-45% of a third-component liquid crystal compound shown in the structural formula (III), and 2%-30% of a fourth-component liquid crystal compound shown in the structural formula (IV). The liquid crystal composition with negative dielectric anisotropy has the characteristics of being proper in negative dielectric anisotropy, wide in nematic phase range, low in rotary viscosity and short in response time, and is applicable to liquid crystal displays driven by active matrix thin-film transistors with VA (Vertical Alignment), IPS (In-Plane-Switching) and FFS (Fringe Field Switching) modes.

The invention discloses a negative dielectric anisotropic liquid crystal composition, which contains the following components by weight: 1-60% of a component A represented by a formula I, 1-70% of component B represented by a formula II or / and a formula III, and 0-40% of component C represented by a formula IV. The liquid crystal composition has characteristics of wide optical anisotropic range, large absolute value negative dielectric anisotropy, high resistivity and high clearing point, is very suitable for manufacturing an optical element and an LCD of a VA mode, and is especially suitable for a low-voltage-driven vehicle-mounted VA-LCD.

The invention relates to a liquid crystal mixture and a liquid crystal display part containing the same. The liquid crystal mixture comprises at least two compounds with general expression of I-IV, wherein R<1> and R<2> are respectively alkyl or alkoxyl with 1to 8 carbon atoms, an alkenyl with 2 to 8 carbon atoms, an alkyl or alkoxyl with 1 to 8 carbon atoms substituted by halogen, and an alkenyl with 2 to 8 carbon atoms substituted by halogen; L<1> to L<4> are respectively H, F OR-CF3; A<1> and B<1> are respectively trans-1,4-cyclohexyl ring or 1, 4-phenylene ring, wherein the 1, 4-phenylene ring can be substituted by F or-CF<3>; and n is 0 or 1. The liquid crystal mixture has large negative dielectric anisotropy (Delta Epsilon), broad nematic phase range, high resistivity and low viscosity. Therefore, the display part using the liquid crystal mixture has low threshold voltage, low electricity consumption, high reliability and excellent response performance.

Described is a liquid crystal composition which satisfies at least one of such characteristics as high upper limit temperature of the nematic phase, low lower limit temperature of the nematic phase, low viscosity, adequate optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, high resistivity, high stability to ultraviolet light and high stability to heat, or which has an adequate balance between at least two of the above-mentioned characteristics. Also described is an AM element having a short response time, high voltage holding ratio, high contrast ratio, long life and the like. The liquid crystal composition contains a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy and a low lower limit temperature as a first component, a specific compound having a low viscosity or a high upper limit temperature as a second component, and a specific compound having a polymerizable group as a third component. The AM element contains the composition.

The invention discloses a liquid crystal composition and a liquid crystal display element. The optical birefringence value delta n of the liquid crystal composition is between 0.055 and 0.075, the liquid crystal composition is a positive dielectric anisotropic liquid crystal composition which has low threshold voltage and high voltage holding ratio and is used in an active matrix display element, and the liquid crystal display element contains the liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition comprises compounds represented by general formulas I, II, III, and IV, and the liquid crystal composition comprises the following compounds in percentage by weight: 10 to 55 percent of I, 1 to 45 percent of II, 5 to 60 percent of III, and 1 to 30 percent of IV; the liquid crystal composition is arranged in a liquid crystal box to form the liquid crystal display element; and the general formula of the compounds represented by the I, the II, the III and the IV is the right formula.

The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium having negative dielectric anisotropy on the basis of a mixture of polar compounds, which contains at least one compound selected from the group of compounds of the formulae (IA), (IB) and (IC), where R1A, R2A, R1B, R2B, R1C, R, L, m, n, o, p and b have the meanings specified in claim 1, and to its use for an active matrix display, in particular based on the ECB, PALC, FFS or IPS effect.

The invention is to provide liquid crystalline compounds having a negative and extremely large dielectric anisotropy value and a small optical anisotropy value at the same time; liquid crystal compositions comprising the compound; and liquid crystal display devices fabricated by using the liquid crystal composition; the liquid crystalline compounds have 2,3-dihalogenophenylene moiety and are expressed by formula (1)wherein Ra and Rb each independently represents a linear or branched alkyl having 1 to 10 carbon, any methylene in the alkyl may be replaced by -O-, -S-, -CH=CH-, or -C=C-, but -O- is not successive, and any hydrogen in the alkyl may be replaced by halogen; rings A1 to A4 each independently represents trans-1,4-cyclohexylene, cyclohexene-1,4-diyl, pyridine-1,4-diyl, pyrimidine-2,5-diyl, or 1,4-phenylene, wherein at least one hydrogen in these rings may be replaced by halogen, and any nonadjacent methylene in cyclohexane ring may be replaced by -O-; Y1 and Y2 each independently represents F or Cl; Z1, Z2 and Z3 each independently represents a single bond, -CH2CH2-, -(CH2)4-, -COO-, -OCO-, -CH2O-, -OCH2-, -CF2O-, or -OCF2-; and l, m and n each independently is 0, 1 or 2, and the sum of l+m+n is 3 and less.

A display element of the present invention includes: a pair of substrates which are opposed to each other; and a substance layer, which is sandwiched between the substrates, exhibiting an optical isotropy when no electric field is applied, while exhibiting an optical anisotropy when an electric field is applied, and the display element performs display operation by applying an electric field to between the substrates. The substance layer includes a liquid crystalline medium exhibiting a nematic liquid crystal phase, and it is Δn×|Δ∈|≧1.9, where Δn is a refractive index anisotropy at 550 nm in a nematic phase of the liquid crystalline medium, and |Δ∈| is an absolute value of a dielectric anisotropy at 1 kHz in the nematic phase of the liquid crystalline medium. The display element and a display device including the display element realize a fast response speed and a low driving voltage and driving in a wide temperature range.

The invention discloses a negative dielectric anisotropic liquid crystal medium which comprises 15 to 55 weight percent of one or more dielectric neutral compounds shown in general formulae I1 and I2, 1 to 60 weight percent of one or more negative dielectric compounds shown in general formula II and 1 to 80 weight percent of one or more negative dielectric compounds shown in general formula III. The optical anisotropy of the liquid crystal medium ranges from 0.080 to 0.150, and the liquid crystal medium has lower rotary viscometer, proper negative dielectric anisotropy and higher K value, and can be used for an active matrix display element with the liquid crystal medium, such as an active matrix display with ECB, FFS or IPS, MVA, PVA or HVA effects (referring to the Specification for the general formulae I1 and I2 as well as the general formula II).

The invention discloses a liquid crystal composite. The liquid crystal composite is characterized by comprising at least one of components which are shown in a general formula I and have negative dielectric anisotropy and at least one of compounds which are shown in a formula II and have positive dielectric anisotropy. The liquid crystal composite has the characteristics of positive dielectric, high electric charge retention rate, low rotary viscosity and quick response, and especially has a characteristic of high transmittance and is applicable to production of high-transmittance and quick-response TFT-LCD.