Bistable liquid crystal display device in which nematic liquid crystal has monostable anchorings
US6327017A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 14, 1998 |
| Grant date | Dec 4, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 14, 2018 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG09G2300/0486
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A display device including two parallel transparent plates (10, 12) having transparent electrodes on the inner surfaces thereof and containing a liquid crystal material (20). The device includes means defining a monostable anchoring for each plate (10, 12), means (40) controllable to break at least one of the anchorings, and means for thereafter inducing volume bistability.
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