Mesogenic Polymer-Stabilized FLCDs Exhibiting Asymmetric and Symmetric (V-Shape) Electrooptic Characteristics

Abstract

Abstract We have succeeded in fabricating a novel FLCD, which exhibits symmetric electrooptic (EO) characteristic called V-shape EO performance, by choosing an appropriate photocuring condition such as applied voltage waveforms and the concentration of photocurable mesogenic monomers. Our mesogenic polymer stabilized (MPS)-V-FLCD shows high contrast ratio owing to zig-zag defect free, continuous grayscale without accompanying switching domains, and good switchability with TFTs due to free from the value of the spontaneous polarization. Key Words: FLCDpolymer stabilizationphotocurable mesogenic monomerV-shape EO characteristic