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US 2026/0028530 A1Published application
Liquid crystalline medium
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsIzumi SAITO, Elisabeth MEYER
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Abstract
A liquid-crystalline medium having a nematic phase comprising one or more compounds of formula I and a negative dielectric component. It can be used in liquid-crystal electrooptical elements, particularly in liquid-crystal lenses. The mixtures have high optical anisotropy and high refractive index, simultaneously they are suitable for fast switching combined with low power consumption using a dual frequency addressing.
Claims13
A liquid-crystalline medium having a nematic phase, the medium comprising one or more compounds of formula I
- in which
- R1 is an alkyl radical having 1 to 15 C atoms, wherein one or more CH2 groups, including terminal C atoms, in this radical may each be replaced, independently of one another, by —C≡C—, —CH═CH—,
- —O—, —S—, —(CO)—O— or —O—(CO)— in such a way that O or S atoms are not linked directly to one another, and in which, in addition, one or more H atoms may be replaced by F or Cl, or H,
- on each appearance, independently of one another, denotes
- denotes
- Z1 denotes —C≡C—, —(CO)O— or —CF2O—,
- Z2 denotes a single bond, —(CO)O— or —CF2O—,
- L11, L12, independently H, F or Cl,
- L13 H, CH3 or CH2CH3,
- X1—CN, —SCN, —OCF3 or F,
- n denotes 1 or 2,
- and one or more additional compounds selected from the group of formulae II, III and VI to IX:
- in which
- R21 and R22 are independently of each other defined as R1, preferably alkyl or alkoxy with 1 to 7 C-atoms, alkenyl, alkenyloxy or alkoxyalkyl with 2 to 7 C-atoms or C3-5-cycloalkyl-(CH2)0-1,
- is
- n independently 0 or 1,
- denotes
- in which
- L3 is CH3, OCH3 or CH2CH3,
- denotes
- R31 and R32 are independently of each other defined as R1,
- R61 is defined as R1,
- R62 is defined as R1, and
- L61, L62 are independently H or methyl,
- l denotes 0 or 1,
- R71 is defined as R1,
- R72 is defined as R1, and
- L71, L72 independently H or methyl,
- independently denote
- R81 is defined as R1,
- R82 is defined as R1,
- L81, L82 independently H or methyl,
- denotes
- Z8 denotes —(CO)—O—, —CH2—O—, —CF2—O— or —CH2—CH2—,
- o denotes 0 or 1,
- R91 and R92 independently of one another have the meaning given for R72,
- denotes
- and
- p is 0 or 1.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.