The invention relates to polymerizable
liquid crystal formulations (as a subcategory of
liquid crystal material), especially to polymerizable ink formulations for
inkjet printing, which are preferably PFAS-free (for enabling the reduction of perfluorocarbons and providing an environment friendly material), and which are comprising one or more polymerizable mesogenic compounds, also known as reactive mesogens (RMs), and one or more organic solvents selected from the group of aromatic ester and aromatic or aliphatic diester solvents, to polymers and
polymer films obtained from such formulations, and to the use of the formulations, polymers and
polymer films in optical or electrooptical components or devices, especially for digital
optics or
augmented reality or
virtual reality (AR / VR) applications like polarizers, optical compensators, reflective films,
diffraction or surface gratings, Bragg polarization gratings (Bragg PG), polarization volume gratings (PVG), polarization volume holograms (PVH), Pancharatnam
Berry (PB) gratings, nonmechanical
beam steering elements, optical waveguides, optical couplers, optical combiners, polarization
beam splitters, partial mirrors, lenses or PB lenses.