Photoaligned Ferroelectric LCDs

FLC exhibits a natural grayscale with many gray levels, but the FLC switching in this case shows a quasi-bistable behavior with hysteresis, because the helix formation is hindered [11]. 

As we reported in Section 4.3, a high-quality, field sequential, full-color polymer-stabilized FLCD exhibiting V-shape switching (PSV-FLCD) has been successfully implemented by Kobayashi et al. using photoalignment technology (see [29, 30] in Chapter 4). 

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J. FunfschiUing, M. Stalder, and M. Schadt, Alignment of ferroelectric LCDS with hybrid LPP-photoaligned polymer networks. SID 99 Digest, p. 308 (1999). 

The photoalignment process could be used for the production of new, emerging LCD types such as ferroelectric LCD, bistable nematic LCD, LCD on... 

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