Provided are a curved liquid crystal display device and a method of manufacturing thereof. The curved liquid crystal display device includes a bent first substrate, a second substrate which is disposed to opposite to the first substrate and bent, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first alignment inducing layer disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and a second alignment inducing layer disposed between the second substrate and the liquid crystal layer. One of the first alignment inducing layer and the second alignment inducing layer includes a polymerized reactive mesogen, and the remaining alignment inducing layer includes a polyimide. Display quality of the device may be improved.

An alignment film and a fabrication method thereof, a liquid crystal panel and a display device, relate to a field of liquid crystal display technology, which can avoid causing static electricity and generating dust during a rubbing process, as well as unevenness of alignment. The method comprises: dispersing discotic liquid crystal molecules containing hydrophobic branched chains in a solvent, to prepare a discotic liquid crystal molecule solution (101); and applying the discotic liquid crystal molecule solution on a substrate, and obtaining the alignment film after removing the solvent (102).

A liquid crystal composition including: a liquid crystal compound and a liquid crystal aligning agent containing at least one compound represented by Formula 1:

##STR00001## wherein in the Formula 1, X-*, *-L.sub.1-*, *-L.sub.2-*, *-L.sub.3-*, *C*, *-R-*, Y-*, n.sub.1, n.sub.2, and m is the same as defined in the specification.

A cholesteric liquid crystal mixture containing a compound represented by Z.sup.1Y.sup.1-A.sup.1-Y.sup.3-M.sup.1-Y.sup.4-A.sup.2-Y.sup.2Z.sup.2, a compound represented by Z.sup.3Y.sup.5-A.sup.3-Y.sup.7-M.sup.2-P, and a tri- or higher functional polymerizable monomer suppresses deposition of a liquid crystal at the time of forming a film, exhibits a wide characteristic reflection bandwidth of the film. Z.sup.1 to Z.sup.3 represent a polymerizable group; A.sup.1 to A.sup.3 represent an alkylene spacer having a chain of 1 to 30 atoms; M.sup.1 and M.sup.2 represent (-T.sup.1-Y.sup.8).sub.n-T.sup.2-; n indicates a natural number; T.sup.1 and T.sup.2 represent a hydrocarbon or heterocyclic ring; Y.sup.1 to Y.sup.5, Y.sup.7 and Y.sup.8 represent a single bond, O, CO, OCO, COO or OCOO; and P represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group.

A liquid crystal (LC) medium comprising one or more polymerizable compounds, its use for optical, electro-optical, and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PSA (polymer sustained alignment) or SA (self-aligning) mode. Also, an LC display of the PSA or SA mode comprising the LC medium, and a process of manufacturing the LC display using the LC medium, especially an energy-saving LC display and energy-saving LC display production process.