Manager Merck Performance Materials Ltd., Taoyuan, Taiwan, an affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany Taoyuan, Taiwan (Republic of China)
In recent years, and for the next generation of TVs and monitors, increasing resolution is a key trend. One challenge is keeping the transmittance while pixel density increases. Chiral Polymer Stabilized Vertical Alignment (C-PS-VA) technology uses LC mixtures with higher birefringence and a chiral dopant and increases transmittance by more than 10% compared to conventional Polymer Stabilized Vertical Alignment (PS-VA). This paper summarizes the recent developments of liquid crystal mixtures for C-PS-VA.