Liquid-crystalline medium and liquid-crystal display comprising the same and compounds
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsSven Christian Laut, Martina Windhorst, Atsutaka Manabe, Constanze Brocke
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Abstract
A liquid-crystalline medium, preferably having a nematic phase, comprising one or more compounds of formula C the use thereof in an energy-efficient electro-optical display, particularly in an active-matrix display based on the IPS or FFS effect, displays of this type which contain a liquid-crystalline medium of this type, and the use of the compounds of formula C for improvement of the contrast and/or response times of a liquid-crystalline medium which comprises one or more additional mesogenic compounds.
Claims20
A liquid-crystalline medium, comprising one or more compounds of formula C:
- in which
- denotes
- denotes, in each occurrence independently of one another,
- RC1 and RC2 independently of one another, denote an alkyl radical having 1 to 15 C atoms, wherein one or more CH2 groups in these radicals are each optionally replaced, independently of one another, by —CH═CH—, —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —O—, —(CO)—O—, —O—(C═O)—, cyclopropylene, 1,3-cyclobutylene, 1,3-cyclopentylene, 1,3-cyclopentenylene, 1,2-cyclopropyl, alkyl, alkenyl, alkenyloxy, alkoxyalkyl, or fluorinated alkenyl having 2 to 7 C atoms, in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which one or more H atoms are optionally replaced by halogen;
- and
- wherein the respective rings are each optionally substituted by one or two alkyl groups;
- one or more compounds of formula B:
- in which
- denotes
- denotes, in each occurrence independently of one another,
- n denotes 1 or 2;
- denotes an alkyl radical having 1 to 15 C atoms, wherein one or more CH2 groups in these radicals are each optionally replaced, independently of one another, by —CH═CH—, —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —O—, —(CO)—O—, —O—(C═O)—, cyclopropylene, 1,3-cyclobutylene, 1,3-cyclopentylene, 1,3-cyclopentenylene, 1,2-cyclopropyl, alkyl, alkenyl, alkenyloxy, alkoxyalkyl, or fluorinated alkenyl having 2 to 7 C atoms, in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which one or more H atoms are optionally replaced by halogen;
- and
- X1 denotes F, Cl, or a fluorinated alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy, or alkenyloxy group having 1 to 4 C atoms;
- and
- one or more dielectrically neutral compounds of formula V:
- in which
- R51 and R52 independently of one another, denote an alkyl radical having 1 to 15 C atoms, wherein one or more CH2 groups in these radicals are each optionally replaced, independently of one another, by —CH═CH—, —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —OCF2—, —O—, —(CO)—O—, —O—(C═O)—, cyclopropylene, 1,3-cyclobutylene, 1,3-cyclopentylene, 1,3-cyclopentenylene, 1,2-cyclopropyl, alkyl, alkenyl, alkenyloxy, alkoxyalkyl, or fluorinated alkenyl having 2 to 7 C atoms, in such a way that O atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which one or more H atoms are optionally replaced by halogen;
- if present, each, independently of one another, denote
- Z51 to Z53 each, independently of one another, denote —CH2—CH2—, —CH2—O—, —CH═CH—, —C≡C—, —COO—, or a single bond;
- and
- i and i each, independently of one another, denote 0 or 1,
- wherein the respective rings are each optionally substituted by one or two alkyl groups;
- and
- wherein the liquid-crystalline medium has a positive dielectric anisotropy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.