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US 12,559,678 B2Granted
Liquid-crystal medium
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsSven Christian Laut, Hee-Kyu Lee, Minghui Yang, Harald Hirschmann, Kaja Christina Deing
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Abstract
The present invention relates to liquid-crystal (LC) media as defined in claim 1, to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, and to LC displays containing said LC media. The invention in particular relates to LC media with improved response time that enable energy saving displays.
Claims23
A liquid crystal medium comprising
- a) one or more compounds of the formula I:
- in which
- R1 and R2, identically or differently, denote H, straight chain alkyl or alkoxy having 1 to 15 C atoms, straight chain alkenyl or alkenyloxy having 2 to 15 C atoms or branched alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyl or alkenyloxy having 3 to 15 C atoms, where one or more CH2 groups in these radicals may each be replaced, independently of one another, by
- C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH═CH—, —O—, —CO—O— or —O—CO— in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which one or more H atoms may each be replaced by halogen,
- Z1 denotes —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —CH2O—, —OCH2—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —C2H4—, —CH═CH—, —C═C— or a single bond,
- L1 and L2, each, independently of one another, denote F, Cl, CF3 or CHF2,
- Y denotes H, F, Cl, CF3, CHF2 or CH3;
- b) one or more compounds selected from the group of compounds of formulae IID-7
- in which alkyl on each occurrence, identically or differently, denotes a straight-chain alkyl radical having 1-6 C atoms, and
- (O) denotes O or a single bond;
- and
- c) one or more compounds selected from the group of compounds of III-2-1, III-2-2, III-2-3, III-2-4, III-2-5, III-2-6, III-2-7, III-2-8, III-2-9, and III-2-10, and one or more compounds selected from the group of compounds of formulae III-3-1, III-3-2, III-3-4, III-3-5, and III-3-6
- in which
- alkyl and alkyl* each, independently of one another, denote a straight-chain alkyl radical having 1-6 C atoms,
- alkenyl and alkenyl* each, independently of one another, denote a straight-chain alkenyl radical having 2-6° C. atoms,
- alkoxy and alkoxy* each, independently of one another, denote a straight-chain alkoxy radical having 1-6 C atoms,
- R32 denotes ethyl, n-propyl, or n-butyl, and
- L31 and L32 each, independently of one another, denote F, Cl, CF3 or CHF2;
- wherein the medium has a negative dielectric anisotropy.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.