The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates consisting of first and second substrates arranged to face each other, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates, a pixel electrode disposed on at least one of the first and second substrates, a common electrode disposed on at least one of the first and second substrates, a light source section including a light-emitting element, and a photoconversion layer including pixels of three primary colors consisting of red (R), green (G), and blue (B). The photoconversion layer contains a light-emitting nanocrystal having an emission spectrum of any of red (R), green (G), and blue (B) upon receiving light emitted from the light source section on at least one of the three primary colors. The liquid crystal layer contains a liquid crystal composition containing a compound represented by General Formula (i) at 10% to 50% by mass.

Compounds of formula I

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liquid crystal media containing these compounds, and high-frequency components containing these media, especially microwave components for high-frequency devices, such as devices for shifting the phase of microwaves, tunable filters, tunable metamaterial structures, and electronic beam steering antennas, phased array antennas, and devices containing these components, and furthermore optical components containing these liquid-crystalline media, operable in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The present invention relates to compositions comprising a combination of benzothiadiazole and thiadiazoloquinoxaline derivatives, to liquid-crystalline media containing the compositions, and to the use of the compositions and the media in optical, electronic and electro-optical devices, in particular in devices for regulating the passage of energy from an outside space into an inside space, for example in switchable windows.

The invention relates to a polymerisable LC material comprising at least one di- or multireactive mesogenic compound of formula T,
R.sup.T1-(A.sup.T1Z.sup.T1).sub.m1-G.sup.T1-(Z.sup.T2-A.sup.T2).sub.m2-R.sup.T2T
and at least one compound of formula CO-1, ##STR00001##
wherein the parameter are R.sup.T1, A.sup.T1, Z.sup.T1, m1, G.sup.T1, Z.sup.T2, A.sup.T2, m2, R.sup.T2, L.sup.1 to L.sup.3, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, and n are defined as given in claim 1. Furthermore, the present invention relates also to a method for its preparation, a polymer film with improved thermal durability obtainable from the corresponding polymerisable LC material, to a method of preparation of such polymer film, and to the use of such polymer film and said polymerisable LC material for optical, electro-optical, decorative or security devices.

The present invention has an object to provide a polymerizable liquid crystal compound used for formation of an optically anisotropic film having excellent reciprocal wavelength dispersion and moisture-heat resistance, a polymerizable liquid crystal composition, an optically anisotropic film, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. The polymerizable liquid crystal compound of the present invention is a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (1), in which a Clog P value of a group represented by Ar in Formula (1) is 4.3 or more and less than 7.0. ##STR00001##

Provided are a liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal cured layer, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each of which suppresses streak defects and has excellent temporal stability. The liquid crystal composition includes a liquid crystal compound and a basic compound, in which a pKa of a conjugate acid of the basic compound is 4 to 10.

An object of the present invention is to provide: an optical element in which incident light can be transmitted or reflected at an angle in the predetermined direction and the wavelength dependence of the amount of transmitted light or reflected light is small; and an optical element including the optical element. The optical element according to the present invention comprises: an optically-anisotropic layer that is formed using a composition including a liquid crystal compound and an infrared absorbing colorant, in which the optically-anisotropic layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, and an absorption of the infrared absorbing colorant in a wavelength range of 700 to 2000 nm in a minor axis direction is higher than an absorption of the infrared absorbing colorant in a wavelength range of 700 to 2000 nm in a major axis direction.

A polarizing plate and a display device including the same. The polarizing plate includes a retardation layer exhibiting ultraviolet blocking characteristics even in a state where the retardation layer does not include any ultraviolet absorber or light stabilizer. The polarizing plate can be used alone or in combination with an appropriate sunscreen or a light stabilizer as needed to selectively block ultraviolet rays in a region requiring blocking, without affecting display performance, such as color senses and image quality, of a display device. The polarizing plate can also be formed with a small thickness without requiring a separate ultraviolet blocking layer, and also has excellent durability, because the polarizing plate exhibits a certain ultraviolet blocking property even in the absence of an ultraviolet absorber or light stabilizer.

An object of the present invention is to provide a polymerizable liquid crystal compound having excellent solubility, which is used for the formation of an optically anisotropic film having excellent durability, a method for producing the same, a polymerizable liquid crystal composition, an optically anisotropic film, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. The polymerizable liquid crystal compound of the embodiment of the present invention is a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (1), L.sup.1-SP.sup.1-A.sup.1-D.sup.3-G.sup.1-D.sup.1-Ar-D.sup.2-G.sup.2-D.sup.4-A.sup.2-SP.sup.2-L.sup.2 . . . (1) in Formula (1), the ClogP value of the group represented by L.sup.1-SP.sup.1-A.sup.1-D.sup.3-G.sup.1-D.sup.1 and the ClogP value of the group represented by L.sup.2-SP.sup.2-A.sup.2-D.sup.4-G.sup.2-D.sup.2 are different from each other, and at least one of the ClogP values is 3.3 or more.

The present invention relates to an assembly of switching layers for dimming and scattering of light and to window elements comprising the arrangement of switching layers.