International Display Workshops General Incorporated Association

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

[LCT4-3(Invited)] Polar Liquid Crystals for Highly Ordered Nematics

*Atsutaka Manabe1, Matthias Bremer1, Martin Kraska1, Melanie Klasen-Memmer1 (1.Merck KGaA (Germany))

liquid crystals, ferroelectric nematic, high polar order, dielectric constant

https://doi.org/10.36463/idw.2021.0050

We report liquid crystals that show ferroelectric nematic phases. We have modified the bridged three-ring structure reported previously to investigate structure-property relationships. Small changes in the length of the flexible chain and variation of the bridge structure cause large differences in the phase sequence as well as in the ferroelectric-nematic transition temperatures. In addition, as a first step toward industrially relevant mixture design, a binary...