Polymerizable LC material and polymer film
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsStephen Mulcahy, Owain Llyr Parri
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Abstract
An optical component and a electro optical devices comprising the optical component. Further, a cholesteric polymerizable liquid crystalline (LC) material, preferably utilized in an optical component in accordance with the present invention, a process for the production of the cholesteric polymerizable LC material, a process to convert the cholesteric polymerizable material into a polymer film, a polymer film obtainable from the cholesteric polymerizable LC material, and the use of the polymer films in an optical component or device comprising a polymer film.
Claims12
An optical component, comprising a linear polarizer, a quarter wave plate, and a patterned or structured light reflecting polymer film, the patterned or structured light reflecting polymer film comprising a cholesteric liquid crystal polymer, wherein the patterned light reflecting polymer film is a non-continuous film covering only a part of a whole area of one surface of the optical component, wherein less than 90% of the whole area of the one surface of the optical component is covered by the film, or wherein the structured light reflecting polymer film is a continuous film that exhibits distinct areas of different selective wavelength reflection throughout a continuous layer of the film.
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