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 may each be 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 0 atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which one or more H atoms may be replaced by halogen, and
- wherein the respective rings may each be substituted by one or two alkyl groups, preferably by methyl and/or ethyl groups, and
- one or more compounds of formula B,
- in which
- denotes
- denotes, in each occurrence independently of one another,
- n denotes 1 or 2,
- R1 has one of the meanings given for RC1, and
- X1 denotes F, Cl, fluorinated alkyl, fluorinated alkenyl, fluorinated alkoxy or fluorinated alkenyloxy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.