Journal of the Japan Society of Colour Material
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Volume 85, Issue 12
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The Special Issue / Colour Materials For The IT Age
Original Research Paper
  • Fabrication of Monostable Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals by Polymer Stabilization for Field Sequential Color Liquid Crystal Displays
    Masanori TAMURA, Mana AMANO, Tsubasa SHIME, Toshiki HORIGUCHI, Shinich ...
    2012 Volume 85 Issue 12 Pages 483-488
    Published: December 20, 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: March 20, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4011/shikizai.85.483
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    Ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) have unique characteristics, such as high-speed response, wide viewing angle, and bistability. Their high-speed response allows the realization of the field sequential color system for next generation liquid crystal displays (LCDs). On the other hand, the bistability is disadvantageous for LCDs which possess grayscale or full-color capability. In this study, we focus on the polymer-stabilized V-mode ferroelectric liquid crystals (PSV-FLCs) photocured in the SmA phase. We research in detail how the fabricating conditions of PSV-FLCs such as polymer concentration, cell gap, photocuring energy and materials influence the monostable capability. As a result of experiment, it is obvious that the higher the concentration of polymer is and/or the thicker the cell gap is, the lower the bistable memory angle is. Furthermore, it is found that the memory angle depends on the photocuring energy and takes a minimum value at a certain energy. Moreover, It is found that the memory angle may also depend on the kinds of the polymer materials. A short alkyl spacer and/or a large molecular weight of the monomer can more strongly stabilize FLC alignment due to the formation of more rigid polymer networks.
    Field sequential color system.
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Review
  • Development of Phosphorescent Materials for OLEDs
    Hideo KONNO
    2012 Volume 85 Issue 12 Pages 489-494
    Published: December 20, 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: March 20, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4011/shikizai.85.489
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    Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have attracted a great deal of attention due to their potential use in lighting apparatus as well as future panel displays applications because OLEDs have a high contrast ratio, a short response time, and a wide viewing angle. Phosphorescent materials such as cyclometalated Ir (III) complexes have been regarded as one of the most important key materials in the field of OLEDs. Here we show recent research development of phosphorescent materials, especially focusing on blue phosphorescent cyclometalated Ir (III) complexes.
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Current Topics
  • Electrochromic System Toward Color Electronic Paper
    Norihisa KOBAYASHI
    2012 Volume 85 Issue 12 Pages 499-504
    Published: December 20, 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: March 20, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4011/shikizai.85.499
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    The demand for global environmental conservation and decrease of CO2 evolution as well as for a portable display with light-weight and low-power consumption require the development of “new imaging media”, instead of paper. This display is categorized as reflective display and is called “electronic paper”. Many technologies are proposed to fabricate reflective display, but microcapsulated electrophoretic system is the leading technology at present. Electrochromic system in which the color change is induced by electrochemical reaction is also a potential candidate to realize color reflective this play. In this paper, the material as the color material for electrochromism and its application for display are reviewed. Further, new electronic paper system are also commented upon.
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  • Precise Syntheses of High Performance Electronic Inks for Full Color Electronic Paper
    Chikara TAKEDA, Ryu KOHASE, Ayano HIRAI, Kazushi ENOMOTO, Atsushi NARU ...
    2012 Volume 85 Issue 12 Pages 505-512
    Published: December 20, 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: March 20, 2013
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4011/shikizai.85.505
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    Electronic rewritable papers have recently attracted a great deal of interest for use in information displays, requiring low cost, low weight, good flexibility, and low power consumption. The fabrication of the displays can be achieved in several ways, such as by using cholesteric liquid crystals, twisting white-black balls, mobile fine particles with liquid crystals, in-plane electrophoretic particles, or micro-encapsulated electrophoretic particles. Among these different materials, microencapsulated electrophoretic displays (EPDs) offer an advantage of lower manufacturing cost, since they can be fabricated by a roll-to roll method. In this article, we report the preparation and particle size control of novel high performance white and color microspheres by dispersion polymerization in low dielectric constant media, such as Isopar and silicone oils. We also report new preparation methods of stable dispersions of TiO2 fine particles encapsulated with polymers and the chargeability control of the particles in the hydrocarbon media.
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