Polymerisable compounds and the use thereof in liquid-crystal media and liquid-crystal displays

US8895117B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Merck Patent GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Axel Jansen · Darmstadt, DE
• Andreas Taugerbeck · Darmstadt, DE
• Helmut Haensel · Heilbad Heiligenstadt, DE
• Achim Goetz · Zwingenberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 26, 2011
• Grant date: Nov 25, 2014
• Expiry date: Sep 25, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02F1/133726
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to polymerisable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid-crystal (LC) media and LC displays having a polymer-stabilized blue phase, and in LC media for LC displays of the PS or PSA (“polymer sustained” or “polymer sustained alignment”) type, and to LC media and LC displays comprising these compounds.