Liquid twisted nematic

The first stable commercial liquid crystal display (LCD) device was the twisted nematic (TN) [110], still widely... [Pg.2561]

Schadt M and Flelfrich W 1971 Voltage-dependent optical activity of a twisted nematic liquid crystal Appl. Phys. Lett. 18 127-8... [Pg.2571]

Thermotropic cholesterics have several practical applications, some of which are very widespread. Most of the liquid crystal displays produced use either the twisted nematic (see Figure 7.3) or the supertwisted nematic electrooptical effects.6 The liquid crystal materials used in these cells contain a chiral component (effectively a cholesteric phase) which determines the twisting direction. Cholesteric LCs can also be used for storage displays utilizing the dynamic scattering mode.7 Short-pitch cholesterics with temperature-dependent selective reflection in the visible region show different colors at different temperatures and are used for popular digital thermometers.8... [Pg.428]

A physicist would say the liquid crystal adopted a twisted nematic structure. [Pg.41]

Supertwisted nematic display, 15 114 Super twisted nematic liquid crystal display (STN-LCD), 9 340 Super ultra-low emissions vehicle (SULEV), 13 855... [Pg.909]

Twisted nematic liquid crystal sandwiched between two glass plates, with the director aligned parallel to the plates, with one of the plates turned in its own plane about an axis normal to it. [Pg.133]

Colour Displays from Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystals... [Pg.310]

Afterwards there appeared what has become the main application liquid crystal displays (LCDs) based on the twisted nematic (TN) mode. These are commonly used for flat panel displays (e.g., desk calculators). Thin film transistor (TFT) LCDs enabled a large number of segments (e.g., 640 x 1024) to be used and they had advantages like... [Pg.407]

Several exciting phenomena described for non-chiral nematic systems were also reported for nanoparticle-doped chiral nematic liquid crystals. We mentioned the work of Kobayashi et al., who, most notably, demonstrated a frequency modulation twisted nematic (FM-TN) mode and fast switching characteristics using metal nanoparticles as dopants [301-307, 313, 314],... [Pg.358]

Liquid crystals can display different degrees of long-range order, dependent on temperature, chemical composition, and the presence or absence of electric fields. In the nematic phase, the molecular axes point in a common direction, denoted by the director n but the molecular centers are otherwise arranged randomly. Because of the low degree of long-range order, nematic LCs have viscosities typical of ordinary liquids, and displays based on nematic LCs can operate at television frame rates. The most popular nematic-based display, the twisted nematic (TN), will be discussed in more detail below. [Pg.116]

Super-twisted nematic liquid crystal displays (STN-LCDs) 45000000... [Pg.1]

The twisted nematic liquid crystal display (TN-LCD) was reported by Schadt and Helfrich of F. Hoffman-La Roche in Basle, Switzerland in 1970. This was part of a tripartite collaboration between F. Hoffman-La Roche in Basle, Brown Boveri of Baden and Ebauche in Neuchatel, all in Switzerland. The intention was to design and develop flat panel displays, e.g. for digital watches. The first LCD factory was constructed in Lenzburg, Switzerland in the mid-1970s by Videlec, a subsidiary of Brown Boveri. Since then the TN-LCD has... [Pg.60]

Figure 3.7 Schematic representation of a twisted nematic liquid crystal display (TN-LCD). ...

Gooch and Tarry plot of transmission versus the coefficient, u, and the corresponding birefringence values, An, for a Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Display TN-LCD of thickness 6.55 pm operating between parallel polari-... [Pg.63]

In general, cholesteric liquid crystals are found in optically active (chiral) mesogenic materials. Nematic liquid crystals containing optically active compounds show cholesteric liquid crystalline behavior. Mixtures of right-handed and left-handed cholesteric liquid crystals at an adequate proportion give nematic liquid crystals. From these results cholesteric liquid crystals are sometimes classified into nematic liquid crystals as twisted nematics . On the other hand, cholesteric liquid crystals form batonnet and terrace-like droplets on cooling from isotropic liquids. These behaviors are characteristic of smectic liquid crystals. Furthermore, cholesteric liquid crystals correspond to optically negative mono-axial crystals, different from nematic... [Pg.46]