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US 11,306,251 B2Granted
Liquid-crystalline medium
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsDagmar Klass, Carsten Fritzsch, Dmitry Ushakov, Beate Schneider
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Abstract
Liquid-crystalline media having one or more compounds of formula C and high-frequency components containing these media, especially microwave components for high-frequency devices, such as devices for shifting the phase of microwaves, tunable filters, tunable metamaterial structures, and electronic beam steering antennas (e.g. phased array antennas).
Claims17
A liquid crystal medium, comprising at least one compound of formula C
- in which
- RC denotes H, unfluorinated alkyl or unfluorinated alkoxy having 1 to 12 C atoms, or unfluorinated alkenyl, unfluorinated alkenyloxy or unfluorinated alkoxyalkyl having 2 to 12 C atoms, in which alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyl, alkenyloxy or alkoxy-alkyl one or more CH2-groups may be replaced by
- LC1, LC2 identically or differently, denote H, Cl or F,
- RC1, RC2, RC3,
- RC4, RC5, and RC6 identically or differently, denote H, F, Cl, or alkyl having 1 to 6 C atoms, or cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl or cyclopentyl;
- and
- one or more compounds of I or II,
- and at least one compound of formula III-1
- in which
- R1 denotes H, unfluorinated alkyl or unfluorinated alkoxy having 1 to 17 C atoms, or unfluorinated alkenyl, unfluorinated alkenyloxy or unfluorinated alkoxyalkyl having 2 to 15 C atoms, in which alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyl, alkenyloxy or alkoxy-alkyl one or more CH2-groups may be replaced by
- n is 0, 1 or 2,
- on each occurrence, independently of one another, denote
- in which RL, on each occurrence identically or differently, denotes H or alkyl having 1 to 6 C atoms,
- and wherein
- alternatively denotes
- R2 denotes H, unfluorinated alkyl or unfluorinated alkoxy having 1 to 17 C atoms, or unfluorinated alkenyl, unfluorinated alkenyloxy or unfluorinated alkoxyalkyl having 2 to 15 C atoms, in which one or more CH2-groups may be replaced by
- Z21 denotes trans-CH═CH—, trans-CF═CF— or —C≡C—, and
- independently of one another, denote
- in which
- RL, on each occurrence identically or differently, denotes H or alkyl having 1 to 6 C atoms;
- R3 denotes H, unfluorinated alkyl or unfluorinated alkoxy having 1 to 17 C atoms, or unfluorinated alkenyl, unfluorinated alkenyloxy or unfluorinated alkoxyalkyl having 2 to 15 C atoms, in which one or more CH2-groups may be replaced by
- one of Z31 and Z32, denotes trans-CH═CH—, trans-CF═CF— or —C≡C— and the other one, independently thereof, denotes —C≡C—, trans-CH═CH—, trans-CF═CF— or a single bond, and
- independently of one another, denote
- in which RL, on each occurrence identically or differently, denotes H or alkyl having 1 to 6 C atoms,
- and wherein
- alternatively denotes
- the liquid crystal medium also comprising 10 to 32% by weight of one or more compounds of formula T
- in which
- RT denotes halogen, CN, NCS, RF, RF—O— or RF—S—, wherein
- RF denotes fluorinated alkyl or fluorinated alkenyl having 2 to 12 C atoms,
- on each occurrence, independently of one another, denote
- L1 and L2 identically or differently, denote Cl, F, alkyl having 1 to 6 C atoms or cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl or cyclopentyl, and
- t is 0, 1 or 2
- wherein the one or more compounds of formula C and one or more compounds of formula III-1 are present in the medium in an amount of 35 to 50%.
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