Evaluation of chiral dopants for LCD applications

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 805-812

  Bauer, Monika ^a   Boeffel, Christine ^a   Kuschel, Frank ^a   Zaschke, Horst ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IZM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Application requirements; Binaphthalenes; Carbohydrates; Induced cholesteric phase; Liquid crystals synthesis of chiral dopants; Phase stability; TADDOLs; Tartaric acid derivatives

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATES; PHASE STABILITY;

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; BINAPHTHALENES; INDUCED CHOLESTERIC PHASE; LIQUID CRYSTALS SYNTHESIS OF CHIRAL DOPANTS; TADDOLS; TARTARIC ACID DERIVATIVES;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 54049136548     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2358575     Document Type: Conference Paper

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