Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Liquid crystal optical display having layer of specified...
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-30
2001-12-25
Wu, Shean C. (Department: 1756)
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Liquid crystal optical display having layer of specified...
C252S299610, C252S299630, C252S299660, C252S299670, C544S242000, C544S298000, C544S335000, C546S339000, C546S340000, C546S341000, C548S136000, C549S080000, C549S083000, C549S369000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06333082
ABSTRACT:
The present invention describes new compounds. In particular it describes compounds for use in liquid crystal mixtures and in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) or in applications relating to inter alia thermography utilising nematic liquid crystal or chiral nematic liquid crystal mixtures.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
LCDs, such as multiplexed Twisted Nematic TN-LCDs, Super Twisted Nematic STN-LCDs, Super Birefringent SBE-LCDs, Electrically Controlled Birefringence ECB-LCDs, or flexoelectric LCDs are currently used or being developed for computer monitors, laptop or notebook computers, portable telephones, personal digital assistants, etc. The optical, electrical and temporal performance, e.g., contrast, threshold and driving voltages, and response times, of such displays depends crucially on the ratios of the elastic constants (k
33
, k
22
, k
11
) and the cell gap, d. Currently commercially available nematic mixtures for sophisticated high-information-content LCDs, such as STN-LCDs, incorporate trans-1,4-disubstituted-cyclohexyl derivatives with a terminal alkenyl chain (i.e., incorporating a carbon-carbon double bond) directly attached to the cyclohexane ring in order to produce the necessary elastic constant ratios for short response times, high multiplexing rates and low driving voltages. Such materials are costly and difficult to synthesise due to the requirement for a trans configuration of the 1,4-disubstituted cyclohexane ring and the necessity of synthesising the carbon-carbon double bond stepwise from this trans-1,4-disubstituted-cyclohexyl intermediate. If the carbon-carbon double bond is substituted at both carbon atoms, it must have a trans (E) configuration in order to exhibit an advantageous combination of elastic constants and to have an acceptably high nematic-isotropic transition temperature (N-I). The trans configuration is then generally produced by isomerisation of the cis (Z) form generated by the preceding Wittig reaction. These materials exhibit low or intermediate values of birefringence (&Dgr;n) due to the presence of the saturated cyclohexane rings. As the ratio d.&Dgr;n determines the optical properties of TN-LCDs and is fixed for driving the LCD in the first or second minimum, it is clear that higher values of &Dgr;n would allow smaller cell gaps. As the response time, t
on
of TN-LCDs is inversely proportional to d
2
, smaller cell gaps have a dramatic effect on t
on
. Low values of t
on
also allow the use of colour or more shades of colour due to the shorter frame times.
Liquid crystals with a (E, E)-butadiene chain are known and are described in, for example W. Meier and K. Markau Z. Phys. Chem. N. F., (1961), Vol. 28, pp 190, Y. Goto and T. Ogawa, EPA 0 280 902 (1988).
For all the above applications it is not usual for a single compound to exhibit all of the properties highlighted, normally mixtures of compounds are used which when mixed together induce the desired phases and required properties.
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Duffy Warren L
Goodby John W
Kelly Stephen M
Nixon & Vanderhye
QinetiQ Ltd
Wu Shean C.
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