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A New Alignment Technology for Liquid Crystals is Under Development

by Arthur Berman

An international team of researchers headed by Dimitri Ivanov of the Laboratory of Functional Organic and Hybrid Materials at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Moscow, Russian Federation) is developing a new means …

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MSU Working on FLCD

by Bob Raikes

We noted a number of articles appearing that talked about developments in the Moscow State University of Ferroelectric LC materials which can be used in frame-sequential LCDs, which would have the advantage of not …

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BC18 Merck Describes its Business

by Bob Raikes

Dr Mark Verrall is the global head of R&D for liquid crystals for Merck, the leading supplier of LC materials, globally, although he works for the US subsidiary, which doesn’t use the Merck name …

Merck to Work with Leeds University on LC Applications

by Bob Raikes

Merck said that it is working with the University of Leeds to develop a range of digital optical applications with liquid crystals under its “Emerging Innovation – LC 2021” strategic initiative. Mark Verrall, Head …

Peach: Innovative Liquid-crystal Technology Makes Displays as Hard as Sapphire

by Isaac Oburu

Liquid Glass is the replacement of classic screen protector films. The liquid glass, which is applied with a cloth, forms within a few minutes an ultra-hard nano-coating which protects the display and glass surfaces, …

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An Improved 2D-Autostereoscopic 3D Display Technology

by Arthur Berman

A team of researchers led by Haiyu Chen at the State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) is developing a switchable 2D – autostereoscopic 3D …

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BC13 EMD/Merck Looks to the Future

by Bob Raikes

Brian Daniels is Senior VP and Business Unit Head for EMD Performance Materials (previously AZ Electronic Materials) and he started by getting his audience to focus on the future from 2030 onwards. EMD is …

University of Florida Reports on Development of New LCD Mixture for Extreme Temperatures

by Norbert Hildebrand

Shin-Tson Wu, Pegasus Professor of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida – College of Optics and Photonics, USA together with support from Xi’an Modern Chemistry Research Institute in Xi’an, China, and DIC Corporation, …

LC Materials Are Still Improving, Says Merck (BC16)

by Bob Raikes

The first session in the afternoon was on emerging technologies and applications to increase profit. There were 9 panelists and speakers overall. Roman Maisch is a Senior VP at Merck and he looked at …

Merck Supports High-Res Trend at SID

by Tom Allen

Merck is to present its expanded product range at SID 2015 (stand 224), using its own LCD materials, as well as new specialised materials from the acquisition of AZ Electronic Materials. Ultra-bright fringe field …

Researchers Achieve Full Opaque/Transparent Switching

by Tom Allen

A team at Pusan National University (Korea) has developed a liquid crystal (LC) technology that can switch between transparent and opaque states, quickly. Existing transparent displays are constantly open to the background, and so …

Light Polymers Removes Steps From Coating Production

by Tom Allen

US-based Light Polymers has developed a lyotropic liquid crystal material that can be used for coating LCD and OLED displays. The material, CF001, has flat dispersion of retardation and can be used for compensation …