Liquid crystal display utilizing bent-core liquid crystals: advantages and problems

  • Takezoe, Hideo (Dept. of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Gomola, Kinga (Dept. of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Guo, Lingfeng (Dept. of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Dhara, Surajit (Dept. of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Shimbo, Yoshio (Dept. of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Gorecka, Ewa (Chemistry Department, Warsaw University) ;
  • Pociecha, Damian (Chemistry Department, Warsaw University) ;
  • Mieczkowski, Jozef (Chemistry Department, Warsaw University)
  • Published : 2009.10.12

Abstract

After reviewing the principle of a new display utilizing bent-core liquid crystals, we summarize the advantages and problems of this display. Then we will introduce our effort to overcome these problems mostly by synthesizing new materials. We obtained a variety of newly synthesized compounds showing the $SmAP_R$ phase. Mixing was effective to decrease and widening the temperature range of the $SmAP_R$ phase.

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