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Liquid crystal device

US4639089A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 14, 1985
Grant dateJan 27, 1987
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Expiry dateJan 14, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02F1/13394
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A liquid crystal showing a cholesteric phase at a higher temperature than the temperature giving a smectic phase is interposed between a pair of base plates to give a liquid crystal device. At least one of the base plates has a face to which an orientation controlling function is imparted for preferentially orienting the liquid crystal molecules in contact with the face in one direction.

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