An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a reflective layer having an excellent diffuse reflectivity and a wide reflection wavelength range. Another object of the present invention is to provide a reflective layer having an excellent diffuse reflectivity and a wide reflection wavelength range. The method for producing a reflective layer of the present invention includes: a step 1 of applying a composition selected from the group consisting of the following composition X and the following composition Y onto a substrate to form a composition layer; a step 2 of heating the composition layer to align a liquid crystal compound in the composition layer into a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase state; a step 3 of cooling or heating the composition layer in a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase state to reduce a helical pitch; and a step 4 of irradiating at least a partial region of the composition layer with light, between the step 1 and the step 2, between the step 2 and the step 3, or after the step 3, to photosensitize a chiral agent A or a chiral agent C in the composition layer. Composition X: a composition including a liquid crystal compound, a chiral agent A whose helical twisting power is changed upon light irradiation, and a chiral agent B whose helical twisting power is increased upon cooling or heating. Composition Y: a composition including a liquid crystal compound and a chiral agent C whose helical twisting power is changed upon light irradiation and whose helical twisting power is increased upon cooling or heating.

A liquid crystal composition, and a liquid crystal display element or liquid crystal display comprising the liquid crystal composition, and belongs to the field of liquid crystal display, wherein the liquid crystal composition comprises a compound represented by formula I, one or more compounds represented by formula II, one or more compounds represented by formula III, one or more compounds represented by formula IV, and at least one polymerizable compound, and has a large dielectric anisotropy (Δε) and a large optical anisotropy (Δn), and has an obvious advantage in the development of a liquid crystal display having a high transmittance and a low cell thickness. ##STR00001##

An electro-optical display element in the areas of displays for watches, pocket calculators, large display panels as used in railway stations, airports and sports arenas, displays of portable or desktop computers, navigation systems and video applications, which upon the application of a voltage to the display element achieves that the longitudinal axis of molecules in a liquid-crystalline media orients itself in such a way that the larger of the dielectric constants becomes effective, which electro-optical display element contains two plates of a capacitor.

The present invention relates to polymers that include residues of at least one monomer represented by the following Formula (I). With reference to Formula (I), at least one of E1 and E2 independently is, or is independently substituted with, at least one reactive group, such as a (meth)acryloyl group. Monomers represented by Formula (I) and monomer residues thereof have alignment properties, such as photoalignment properties. The present invention also relates to alignment layers that include such polymers, and articles of manufacture, such as optical elements, that include one or more such alignment layers. ##STR00001##

The invention relates to a compound of formula I,

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wherein R.sup.11, R.sup.21, A.sup.11, A, Z, X.sup.11, X.sup.21, Y.sup.11, Y.sup.12, Sp.sup.11, Sp.sup.21, o and p have one of the meanings as given in claim 1. The invention further relates to method of production of a compound of formula I, to the use of said compounds in LC media and to LC media comprising one or more compounds of formula I. Further, the invention relates to a method of production of such LC media, to the use of such media in LC devices, and to LC device comprising a LC medium according to the present invention. The present invention further relates to a process for the fabrication such liquid crystal display and to the use of the liquid crystal mixtures according to the invention for the fabrication of such liquid crystal display.

The invention relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, in particular based on a mixture of polar compounds, and to the use thereof for an active-matrix display, in particular based on the VA, SA-VA, IPS, PS-IPS, FFS, PS-FFS, UB-FFS or PS-UB-FFS effect.

Disclosed are a liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal display element, and a liquid crystal display, said liquid crystal composition comprising one or more compounds represented by formula I, one or more compounds represented by formula II, one or more compounds represented by formula III and one or more compounds represented by formula IV, ##STR00001##
The liquid crystal composition of the present invention has a good stability to light and heat and a lower viscosity, and can attain a wider refractive index and a high clearing point (a wide service temperature range), and in particular, the liquid crystal composition has a high light transmittance, thus allowing a display device to have a high brightness or an energy saving effect.

A dielectric negative liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal display element and a liquid crystal display containing the liquid crystal composition belong to the field of liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal composition of the present disclosure includes a compound represented by formula I, a compound represented by formula II, two or more compounds represented by formula III and one or more compounds represented by formula IV. The liquid crystal composition of the present invention has high dielectric anisotropy, high elastic constant K, low rotational viscosity, can be used to develop large dielectric, fast response liquid crystal display elements or liquid crystal displays.

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The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal material, a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel, and a display panel. The display panel includes a thin film transistor substrate, a color film substrate, a polymer layer structure, and a liquid crystal layer. During the preparation, after three different irradiations, the liquid crystal material is directly polymerized into the first polymer layer structure and the second polymer layer structure under the irradiations, eliminating the black matrix structure and the polyimide alignment film structure, improving the display effect of the panel, and reducing preparation costs.

Provided are liquid crystal compounds and mixtures incorporating the same. The liquid crystal compounds of the invention generally comprise a cyclopentane group and at least two other rings. In one embodiment, the liquid crystal compounds of the invention comprise a cyclopentane group and at least two other rings, one of which is a fused ring system.