Yasuhiro Haseba

TL;DR: A difluoroxymethane derivative represented by general formula (I), which is lowly viscous, has a high permittivity anisotropy and is useful as a low-voltage liquid crystal material for various liquid crystal displays (wherein 1, m and n represent each 0 or 1; rings A1 to A3 represent each independently a 6-membered ring such as trans-1, 4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; Z 1 to Z 3 represent each covalent bond or a bonding group such

TL;DR: In this article, a polymer/liquid crystal complex is a complex of a polymer and an optically active liquid crystal composed of a mixture of 1-40 wt.% active and optically inactive liquid crystal material having a nematic phase, the absolute value of the product of refractive index anisotropic and dielectric constant anisotropy of 0.5-60 and a viscosity of ≤ 1,000 mPas, exhibiting a Kerr constant of ≥ 1×10 -9 mV -2 and having optically isotropic state in

TL;DR: In this article, a novel liquid-crystal compound represented by general formula (1), which is highly dielectrically anisotropic, reduced in the temperature dependence of threshold voltage, and improved in the solubility in other liquidcrystal materials at low temperature, was presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the problem of providing a polymer/liquid crystal composite material having a high content of the liquid crystal, high transparency and isotropy and showing a high electric birefringence Δn E over a wide range of temperatures and a photo-element containing the composite material, e.g. a liquid crystal display, is addressed.

TL;DR: In this article, an electrically and chemically stable liquid crystalline compound which exhibits a significantly large value of De and a high voltage holding ratio was provided. The compound is a phenyldioxane derivative represented by formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R represents a C1-C20 alkyl group, each of n 1 and n 2 represents 0 or 1; each of Q 1 through Q 6 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, or a chlorine atom.