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

US9347000B2 · 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: Aug 26, 2014
• Grant date: May 24, 2016
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 2034

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-stabilised 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.