A liquid crystal device and a method for manufacturing thereof

Patent, 2005

The invention relates to a liq. crystal device comprising a liq. crystal bulk layer and a dynamic surface-director alignment layer, wherein the liq. crystal bulk layer comprises a liq. cryst. material possessing a phase sequence consisting of isotropic phase, nematic phase and optionally cryst. phase (s), and the surface-director alignment layer comprises a chiral smectic liq. cryst. polysiloxane. The invention also relates to a method for its manufg. [on SciFinder (R)] 74 FIELD Section Title:Radiation Chemistry, Photochemistry, and Photographic and Other Reprographic Processes Field url: Ae, ag, al, am, at, au, az, ba, bb, bg, br, bw, by, bz, ca, ch, cn, co, cr, cu, cz, de, dk, dm, dz, ec, ee, eg, es, fi, gb, gd, ge, gh, gm, hr, hu, id, il, in, is, jp, ke, kg, km, kp, kr, kz, lc, lk, lr, ls, lt, lu, lv, ma, md, mg, mk, mn, mw, mx, mz, na, ng, ni, no, nz, om, pg, ph, pl, pt, ro, ru, sc, sd, se, sg, sk, sl, sm, sy, tj, tm, tn, tr, tt, tz, ua, ug, us, uz, vc, vn, yu, za, zm, zw. At, be, ch, cy, de, dk, es, fi, fr, gb, gr, ie, is, it, lu, mc, nl, pt, se, tr, bf, bj, cf, cg, ci, cm, ga, ml, mr, ne, sn, td, tg. G02f001-1347. G02f001-1337; g02f001-141; c09k019-40. Application: WO 20050608. 2005-ep6145 Ep 2004-13592 20040609 FIELD Citations:Demus, D; WO 0003288 A 2000|Galli, G; MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS 2001, 360, 147|Komitov, L; WO 03081326 A 2003|Komitov, L; JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION DISPLAY SOC, 11, 437|Merck Patent Gmbh; WO 8909203 A 1989