Polymer Stabilized FLCD Exhibiting V-Shape Electrooptic Characteristics

Abstract

We have succeeded in fabricating a novel FLCD, which exhibits symmetric electrooptic (EO) characteristic called V-shaped EO performance, by choosing appropriate photocuring conditions such as applied voltage waveforms and the concentration of photocurable mesogenic monomers. Our polymer stabilized (PS)-V-FLCD shows high contrast ratio, fast response time, continuous grayscale, and good switchability with TFTs due to free from the value of the spontaneous polarization. The LCD using this technique will be utilized for the displays that show moving video color images.