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Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 36 (1997) pp. L1517-L1519  |Next Article|  |Table of Contents|
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Mesogenic Polymer Stabilized Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Display Exhibiting Monostability with High Contrast Ratio and Grayscale Capability.

Hirokazu Furue, Tomohiro Miyama, Yasufumi Iimura1, Hiroshi Hasebe2, Haruyoshi Takatsu2 and Shunsuke Kobayashi

Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Science University of Tokyo in Yamaguchi, Onoda, Yamaguchi 756, Japan 1Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Tokyo 184, Japan 2Dainippon Ink & Chemicals, Inc., Kitaadachi-gun, Saitama 362, Japan

(Received August 4, 1997; accepted for publication October 3, 1997)

We have fabricated a new ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) display that exhibits monostable electrooptical characteristics with high contrast ratio (160:1) owing to freedom from defects, grayscale capability without threshold, and fast response (70 µs). A FLC(ZLI-4654-100, Merck) is subjected to polymer stabilization by UV photocure of a mixture of doped monoacrylates with a mesogenic side chain particularly at a temperature where the LC medium is in the SmC* phase under the simultaneous application of a monopolar electric field.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/36/L1517/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.36.L1517
KEYWORDS:ferroelectric liquid crystal, monostable EO characteristics, polymer stabilization, photocure, monoacrylate, mesogenic side chain


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