A liquid crystal panel and a method of fabricating the same are described. For the liquid crystal panel, an optical alignment treatment is performed to irradiate a polarized ultraviolet light to an optical alignment layer in advance. Thus, when a polymerizing step is performed, tilting directions of the liquid crystal molecules can be made uniform, thereby solving the problem of reducing an optical transmittance existing in the conventional technology.

The invention relates to a light modulation element comprising a polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystalline medium sandwiched between two substrates (1), provided with a common electrode structure (2) and a driving electrode structure (3) individually, wherein the substrate with driving and/or common electrode structure is additionally provided with an alignment electrode structure (4) which is separated from the driving and or common electrode structure on the same substrate by an dielectric layer (5), characterized in that the light modulation element comprises at least one alignment layer (6) directly adjacent to the liquid crystalline medium.

The invention is further relates to a method of production of said light modulation element and to the use of said light modulation element in various types of optical and electro-optical devices, such as electro-optical displays, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), non-linear optic (NLO) devices, and optical information storage devices.

A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate having a display region and a non-display region, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, at least a data line and at least a scan line disposed in the display region, a liquid crystal layer, a plurality of spacers and a seal disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a light shielding layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and including a light transmitting portion and a light shielding portion, and an alignment layer and a plurality of particles disposed on the light transmitting portion and the light shielding portion. A first surface roughness corresponding to the light transmitting portion of the non-display region is greater than a second surface roughness corresponding to the light shielding portion of the non-display region.

The present invention relates to a liquid crystal (LC) display of the FFS type comprising a liquid crystal medium with negative dielectric anisotropy and a di- or multireactive polymerizable compound, and an alignment layer inducing planar alignment in the LC medium.

An encapsulated polymer stabilized cholesteric texture (EPSCT) light shutter is formed from a cholesteric liquid crystal and monomer that is encapsulated into micron sized, polymer-coated droplets by either an emulsification or phase separation process. The polymer-coated droplets are disposed between transparent electrodes, where they are irradiated by ultra-violet (UV) light to polymerize the monomer.

The present invention provides an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, a liquid crystal film layer, a display panel and a preparing method thereof. The ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer is characterized in that the mass percent of the vinyl acetate monomeric unit is 20-35% and the number average molecular weight of the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer is 10,000-100,000. The ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers of the invention form a network structure and have sheet shape in microscopic morphology, which allow liquid crystal molecules to be anchored in meshes of the network structure and therefore to be induced to orientate in accordance with the arrangement of the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, thereby achieving the instant read-in and output of the display information. Particularly, with the ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, the adapted orientation of the liquid crystal molecules under the bending state of the display panel is achieved and the instant read-in and output of the display information is realized.

This application discloses a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. A light-adjusting liquid crystal cell of the display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a light-adjusting liquid crystal layer and a sealing layer. The ultraviolet light transmittance of the first substrate in a display area is less than a predetermined threshold, and the ultraviolet light transmittance of the second substrate in the display area is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold. During the curing of frame glue, it can prevent pre-polymerized molecules from being exposed to light in advance. During the curing of the pre-polymerized molecules, it can make the pre-polymerized molecules have a cross-linking reaction to form a polymer network.

Provided are a light controlling apparatus and a method of fabricating the same. The light controlling apparatus comprises: a first electrode unit and a second electrode unit facing each other; a liquid crystal unit between the first electrode unit and the second electrode unit, the liquid crystal unit including: a liquid crystal; a network having a first polymer polymerized from a first monomer having a similar shape as the liquid crystal and a second polymer polymerized from a second monomer having a shape different from the first monomer; and a wall having the first polymer and the second polymer.

An LCD panel includes a first and a second substrate structure. The second substrate structure includes multiple sub-pixel areas. The first substrate structure has a first substrate, a common electrode layer, an insulation layer, multiple sub-photo spacers, a first conductive film layer and a first alignment film layer. The sub-photo spacers are located above corresponding sub-pixel areas and are separated from the second substrate structure. The first conductive film layer is disposed on the insulation layer and covers the multiple sub-photo spacers. The first alignment film layer covers the first conductive film layer except a portion that covers the sub-photo spacers, and also covers the insulation layer except a portion that is covered by the first conductive film layer. Utilizing the sub-photo spacers to realize a more even alignment of the liquid crystal molecules such that manufacturing process of the liquid crystal panel is simplified, and the cost is reduced.

A tunable parametric mixer comprising a pump laser, a nonlinear waveguide, and a refractive index tuner. The pump laser is configured to generate pump photons. The nonlinear waveguide comprises a cladding and a core. The core is made of nonlinear optical material and the cladding in made of a material with a tunable index of refraction. The nonlinear waveguide is configured to convert the pump photons into signal and idler photons. The refractive index tuner is configured to change the refractive index of the cladding to dynamically tune the dispersion properties of the nonlinear waveguide in order to alter a spectral location of a gain band of the parametric mixer.