Liquid crystal displays and liquid crystalline media with homeotropic alignment

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PATENT NO 10273409
APP PUB NO 20180022997A1
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15666176

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The present invention relates to liquid-crystalline media (LC media) having negative or positive dielectric anisotropy comprising self-aligning mesogens (SAMs) which effect homeotropic (vertical) alignment of the LC media at a surface or the cell walls of a liquid-crystal display (LC display). The invention therefore also encompasses LC displays having homeotropic alignment of the liquid-crystalline medium (LC medium) without conventional imide alignment layers. The LC media may be supplemented by a polymerizable or polymerized component, which serves for stabilization of the alignment, for adjustment of the tilt angle and/or as passivation layer.

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MERCK PATENT GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRANKTER HAFTUNGFRANKFURTER STRASSE 250 DARMSTADT 64293

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Graziano, Archetti Darmstadt, DE 3 50
Taugerbeck, Andreas Darmstadt, DE 59 775

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