Bistable polymer dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal displays
First Claim
1. A bistable polymer dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal display comprising cells containing cholesteric liquid crystals having positive dielectric anisotropy, confined in domains which have a major axis and a minor axis, and wherein the major axis is larger in size than the cell thickness, wherein solid polymer walls are disposed between regions of liquid crystals.
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Abstract
Polymer/cholesteric liquid crystal dispersions are provided in which the liquid crystal phase separated from the polymer matrix to form droplets. The cholesteric liquid crystals were positive dielectric anisotropic. At a zero field condition, the liquid crystal in the droplets was bistable, that is, the liquid crystal can be in either the reflecting planar state or the scattering focal conic state. When the liquid crystal 101 was in the planar texture, the helical axis of the liquid crystal was more or less perpendicular to the cell surface; colored light 105 was Bragg reflected. When the liquid crystal 101 was in the focal conic texture, the helical axis was more or less parallel to the cell surface, incident light was scattering 106 in the forward direction.
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- 1. A bistable polymer dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal display comprising cells containing cholesteric liquid crystals having positive dielectric anisotropy, confined in domains which have a major axis and a minor axis, and wherein the major axis is larger in size than the cell thickness, wherein solid polymer walls are disposed between regions of liquid crystals.
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11. A method of making a multicolor reflective, bistable polymer dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal display comprising, providing a mixture comprising a photo tunable chiral material, a liquid crystal and polymer;
- dissolving the mixture in a solvent to form a solution;
introducing the solution into a cell and heating;
cooling the mixture to obtain droplets of liquid crystal material in polymer that forms domains that have a major axis and a minor axis, and wherein the major axis is larger in size than the cell thickness for a majority of the domains;
masking and exposing with UV light, selected portions of the cell to localize cholesteric liquid crystal material of differing pitches in predetermined pixels within the cell. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
- dissolving the mixture in a solvent to form a solution;
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