The effect of polymer stabilisation of liquid crystal alignment is an attractive method for modifying the electro-optical properties of liquid crystals. The polymer stabilisation in ferroelectric liquid crystals allows a bistable switching of a biaxial alignment, which is surface-stabilised ferroelectric liquid crystal display (SS-FLCDs), to alter into uniaxial alignment of V-shaped switching to enable AC driving. We demonstrated an excellent performance to be suitable for a field sequential full-colour LCD exhibiting a fast switching with response time of less than 500 μs.

Chapter Contents:

• 16.1 Introduction
• 16.2 Polymer stabilisation in FLCs
• 16.3 Switching properties of V-shaped FLCs
• 16.4 Switching properties
• 16.5 Prototype of a TFT driving panel
• 16.6 Conclusions
• References

Inspec keywords: liquid crystal polymers; colour displays; optical switches; ferroelectric liquid crystals; electro-optical effects; optical bistability; liquid crystal displays

Other keywords: bistable switching; liquid crystal alignment; uniaxial alignment; electro-optical properties; colour displays; field-sequential full colour displays; polymer-stabilised ferroelectric LCD; attractive method; biaxial alignment; field sequential full-colour LCD; polymer stabilisation; surface-stabilised ferroelectric liquid crystal display

Subjects: Optical bistability, multistability and switching; Display materials; Piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials; Liquid crystals (optical materials); Electro-optical effects (condensed matter); Optical bistability, multistability and switching; Liquid crystal devices