A liquid crystal composition includes the following compounds: (in a range of 21.5 to 26.5 parts by weight) a compound represented by a first chemical formula, (in a range of 2.5 to 7.5 parts by weight) a compound represented by a second chemical formula, (in a range of 12.5 to 17.5 parts by weight) a compound represented by a third chemical formula, (in a range of 5.5 to 10.5 parts by weight) a compound represented by a fourth chemical formula, (in a range of 7.5 to 12.5 parts by weight) a compound represented by a fifth chemical formula, (in a range of 2 to 7 parts by weight) a compound represented by a sixth chemical formula, (in a range of 10.5 to 15.5 parts by weight) a compound represented by a seventh chemical formula, and (in a range of 13 to 18 parts by weight) an compound represented by an eighth chemical formula 8.

An electronic device includes a solar cell, a first light modulating layer, a transmittance-adjustable lens and a control circuit. At least a portion of the first light modulating layer is disposed on the solar cell. The control circuit is electrically connected to the solar cell and the transmittance-adjustable lens.

A device having scattering which can be varied by liquid crystals includes a stack with a first electrode, an electroactive layer with the liquid crystals being stabilized by the polymeric network, a second electrode. The material exhibits, starting from a temperature referred to as T1, a mesophase referred to as P. At a temperature T′ greater than or equal to T1, the stack is capable of exhibiting at least three variable scattering states, which are stable and reversible, in the visible region.

A transparent display device and a backlight module are provided. The transparent display device includes: a scattered display panel including a display side; a first base substrate on a side of the scattered display panel facing away from the display side; a light source on a side of the first base substrate; and a dot-array structure between the scattered display panel and the first base substrate. The first base substrate includes a light incident surface and a light emitting surface. The dot-array structure includes a plurality of protrusions, and orthographic projections of the plurality of protrusions on the light emitting surface are distributed in an array. An orthographic projection of each protrusion on a first plane is in an inverted trapezoidal shape in a direction from the first base substrate to the scattered display panel.

A privacy glazing structure may include an electrically controllable optically active material that provides controlled transition between a privacy or scattering state and a visible or transmittance state. To make electrical connections with electrode layers that control the optically active material, the privacy glazing structure may include electrode engagement regions. In some examples, the electrode engagement regions are formed as notches in peripheral edges of opposed panes bounding the optically active material. The notches may or may not overlap to provide a through conduit in the region of overlap for wiring. In either case, the notches may allow the remainder of the structure to have a flush edge surface for ease of downstream processing.

The invention relates to a liquid crystal device comprising at least two opposing transparent substrates, at least one liquid crystal switching layer sandwiched between said opposing substrates comprising one or more polymerised photoreactive mesogens of formula I,

R.sup.11-Sp.sup.11-X.sup.11[-A-Z].sub.o-A.sup.11-CY.sup.11═CY.sup.12[—C═O].sub.x[—O].sub.y-A[-Z-A].sub.p—X.sup.21-Sp.sup.21-R.sup.21  I

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, p, x and y have one of the meanings as given in claim 1, and one or more nematogenic compounds, an electrode structure provided on one or both of the opposing substrates, wherein one or more of said substrates are additionally provided with an optical grating or a lens structure adjacent to the LC switching layer. The invention is further related to a method of production of said liquid crystal device, to the use of said Liquid Crystal device in various types of optical and electro-optical devices, and to electro-optical devices comprising the liquid crystal device.

A functional element having electrically controllable optical properties having a plurality of side edges includes a stacking sequence having a first carrier film, a first planar electrode divided by an isolation line into at least two segments, an active layer, a second planar electrode, and a second carrier film, wherein on a first side edge in a first region, the second carrier film, the second planar electrode, and the active layer have a first cutback and in a second region, the first carrier film, the first planar electrode, and the active layer have a second cutback, a group of first bus bars electrically conductively contacts the first planar electrode, and each segment of the first planar electrode is electrically conductively contacted by a bus bar from the group of the first bus bars, and at least one second bus bar electrically conductively contacts the second planar electrode.

Layered assemblies are disclosed, that include a variable transmittance layer having opposing first and second sides; at least a first reflectance color-balancing layer positioned on the first side of the variable transmittance layer; and a transmittance color-balancing layer positioned on the first side or the second side of the variable transmittance layer. The variable transmittance layer may be variable between a dark state and a light state, and may have a dark state transmittance spectrum when in the dark state and a different light state transmittance spectrum when in the light state.

A control system for independent alternating-input (“IAI”) devices includes multiple IAI devices and an analog switch component. The control system may also include a bus-generating component. The analog switch component includes multiple switches configured to connect of disconnect input connection points of the analog switch component and voltage input points of the IAI devices. The analog switch component opens or closes switches, responsive to a digital control signal, to provide voltage signals to the voltage input points of the IAI devices. In some cases, the IAI devices activate or deactivate based on the provided voltage signals. In some cases, the bus-generating component provides a first voltage signal to a first voltage input point of an IAI device, and the analog switch component controls the switches to provide a second voltage signal to a second voltage input point of the IAI device.

A method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment layer, a liquid crystal alignment layer, and a display device. The method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment layer includes: S1, dripping liquid crystals and performing cell-assembling, wherein a liquid alignment material is added to the liquid crystals and the alignment material is curable and includes molecules capable of inducing alignment of liquid crystal molecules S2, applying an electric field or a magnetic field, wherein the direction of the electric field is approximately the same as a preset direction of the liquid crystal alignment layer, and the direction of the magnetic field is perpendicular to the preset direction of the liquid crystal alignment layer; and S3, performing curing while maintaining the electric field or the magnetic field until the alignment material completes the curing reaction.