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Display element, display device, and manufacturing method of display element

US7327433B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 14, 2005
Grant dateFeb 5, 2008
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Expiry dateMay 5, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02F1/13775
  • WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Each of a pair of substrates respectively comprises an electrode and a rubbed alignment film on one surface, while the other surface is provided with a polarizer. The substrates are placed so that the surfaces provided with the alignment films are opposed to each other, and the area between the substrates is filled with a medium to form a material layer. Then, a medium made of a negative-type liquid crystalline compound sing a photopolymerizable monomer and a polymerization initiator is injected into the material layer held between the substrates. Further, ultra violet irradiation is performed with the medium exhibiting a liquid crystal phase, so that the photopolymerized monomer is polymerized, thus forming a polymer chain. In this manner, obtained is a display element, that causes change in degree of optical anisotropy in response to application of electric (external) field, which display element can be driven by a lower intensity electric (external) field.

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