Ferroelectric displays

Five-membered sulfur-containing heterocycles are important synthetic intermediates and have found a variety of applications in medical, agricultural, and material chemistry. Looking for potential candidates for ferroelectric display applications. Seed s group investigated the preparation of liquid crystals... 

It can be safely predicted that applications of liquid crystals will expand in the future to more and more sophisticated areas of electronics. Potential applications of ferroelectric liquid crystals (e.g. fast shutters, complex multiplexed displays) are particularly exciting. The only LC that can show ferroelectric property is the chiral smectic C. Viable ferroelectric displays have however not yet materialized. Antifer-roelectric phases may also have good potential in display applications. Supertwisted nematic displays of twist artgles of around 240° and materials with low viscosity which respond relatively fast, have found considerable application. Another development is the polymer dispersed liquid crystal display in which small nematic droplets ( 2 gm in diameter) are formed in a polymer matrix. Liquid crystalline elastomers with novel physical properties would have many applications. 

Merck develops lateral difluorinated LCs for ferroelectric displays... 

During the 1980s the development of ferroelectric liquid crystals continued at Bell Laboratories, and the above property-structure correlations suggested to us that, for the development of smectic C and smectic materials which would be suitable for use in applications of ferroelectric displays, it would not be wise to investigate 1-methylalkyl-substituted systems because of the... 

The form chirahty of all of these chiral smectic mesophases takes the form of a helical stracture, but the helix manifests itself in a different way from the helix in the chiral nematic phase. In addition to being substantially the most commonly exhibited of the tilted chiral smectic phases, the chiral smectic C phase is by far the most important (least ordered and least viscous) in this category. The chiral smectic C phase is employed in the ferroelectric display device (see Chapter 13) but the helix must be unwound. 

FIGURE 7.24. Various guest-host ferroelectric displays [126]. (a) Nonpolarized DGHFE and (b) fluorescent DGHFE. 

Hikmet RAM, Boots HMJ, Michielsen M (1995) Ferroelectric liquid-raystal gels - network stabilized ferroelectric displays. Liq Cryst 19(l) 65-76. doi 10.1080/02678299508036721... 

Work in other display areas has of course occurred. Through the seminal work of R. B. Meyer and the research of Clark and Lagerwall [55] on surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal devices based on chiral smectic C liquid crystal materials, the potential for ferroelectric devices has been fully explored in recent years. With their faster switching capability, they are attractive, and the difficulties over addressing schemes and the manufacture of ferroelectric displays will perhaps soon be overcome to give the marketplace a further liquid crystal device. 

The applications of liquid crystals have unquestionably added incentive to the quest for new liquid crystal materials with superior properties such as viscosity, elastic constants, transition temperatures, and stability. In recent years this has catalyzed work on chiral materials as dopants for ferroelectric displays and for antiferroelectric materials with structures avoiding the number of potentially labile ester groups that were present in the original materials in which... 

Figure 37. Model of the arrangement of layers and io" e ferroelectric display can be focal lines in the texture shown in Fig. 36. (a) Distri- smoothed by focal curves and Other defects,...

The viscous part of the stress tensor for the SmC and the ferroelectric chiral smectic (SmC ) phase agree with one another. The flow phenomena with a fixed director orientation discussed in the foregoing section can not be observed due to the inhomogeneous director orientation in the SmC phase. However, there is a large interest in rotational movements of the director in ferroelectric displays. 

Small polar lateral substituents have been made of considerable use in the development of materials that exhibit smectic C phases for applications as host systems for ferroelectric display devices [31]. Small polar groups do not depress mesophase formation greatly, and in addition they can be po-... 

Today s ferroelectric liquid crystals are made on small sizes on silicon chips (liquid crystals on silicon) and presently are serving only a relatively small market. This is partially because of the problems with field-induced mechanical stresses related to their piezoelectricity. However, we believe that sooner or later the ferroelectric displays should be good enough to replace the nematic displays. They are inherently bistable, i.e., only those pixels should be readdressed that are showing change, and they offer switching with 1-100 microsecond ranges. Their main drawback is that they have two-dimensional... 

In tbc ambitious JOERS/ALVEY Project, STC, Thom EMI, RSRE, BOH. and the University of Hull have joined to push forward the development of ferroelectric displays. A 10.4-in.-diagonai, VGA display with 8 colors and lO-Hz frame rale for laptop applications was presented [39]. Tb establish this technology the C2U chevron stale was selecicd and a high-frequency AC stabilization operating in tiK t-V minimum was used (31). 

Ross, P. W., 720 X 400 Matrix ferroelectric display operating at video frame rates, Proc. Int. Disp. Res. Conf, 185, 1988. 

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