Liquid crystalline medium and liquid crystal display
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsMarkus Czanta, Atsutaka Manabe, Lars Lietzau, Michael Wittek
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Abstract
Dielectrically positive liquid crystalline media comprising a dielectrically neutral component, component A, comprising a dielectrically neutral compound of formula I wherein the parameters have the meaning given in the specification, in a high concentration, and a dielectrically positive component, component B, comprising one or more dielectrically positive compounds having a dielectric anisotropy of more than 3, are described. Also described are liquid crystal displays comprising these media, especially to active matrix displays and in particular TN and to IPS displays.
Claims23
A liquid crystal medium, comprising:
- a dielectrically neutral component, component A, comprising a dielectrically neutral compound of formula I
- a dielectrically positive component, component B, comprising one or more dielectrically positive compounds having a dielectric anisotropy of more than 3, which includes one or more compounds selected from the group of compounds of formulae II-1a to II-1e:
- wherein
- R2 is alkyl, alkoxy, fluorinated alkyl or fluorinated alkoxy with 1 to 7 C-atoms, or alkenyl, alkenyloxy, alkoxyalkyl or fluorinated alkenyl with 2 to 7 C-atoms,
- L21 to L24, are, independently of each other, H or F, and
- X2 is halogen, halogenated alkyl or halogenated alkoxy with 1 to 3 C-atoms or halogenated alkenyl or halogenated alkenyloxy with 2 or 3 C-atoms;
- and;
- one or more compounds of formula VI:
- wherein
- R61 and R62, are, independently of each other, alkyl, alkoxy, fluorinated alkyl or fluorinated alkoxy with 1 to 7 C-atoms, or alkenyl, alkenyloxy, alkoxyalkyl or fluorinated alkenyl with 2 to 7 C-atoms,
- and in case it is occurring twice in each occurrence independently of each other, is
- Z61 and Z62 are, independently of each other, and in case Z61 is present twice, also these independently of each other, —CH2CH2—, —COO—, trans- —CH═CH—, trans- —CF═CF—, —CH2O—, —CF2O— or a single bond, and
- r is 0, 1 or 2;
- wherein the concentration of the component A in the medium is from 30% to 65% by weight of the total medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.