Disclosed are a display panel, a method for controlling a display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes a light-emitting substrate and an optical modulation structure which are laminated; and the optical modulation structure supports a first state and a second state which are switchable. In the first state of the optical modulation structure, a first light-emitting unit forms an image at a first position. In the second state of the optical modulation structure, the first light-emitting unit forms an image at a second position. According to the present disclosure, with the optical modulation structure, each light-emitting unit is enabled to form two images at different positions in different states. In this way, the state of the optical modulation structure can be continuously switched without increasing the number of light-emitting units, thereby improving a display effect of the display panel.

A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a lower substrate and an upper substrate cell-assembled together; a light-emitting control layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate; and a plurality of pixel units defined by a plurality of data lines and gate lines intersected with each other. Each pixel unit includes a plurality of subpixel areas. One or more side surfaces of the lower substrate are configured to receive incidence of the collimated light. The light-emitting control layer is configured to control the light-emitting directions and the light-emitting colors of the subpixel areas, to allow the light-emitting directions of the subpixel areas toward the central portion of the display panel. The light-emitting control layer is also configured to control the display grayscale of the subpixel areas.

Stable, macroscopic single-crystal chiral liquid crystal compositions are described. The compositions include a single-crystal chiral liquid crystal material on a patterned surface. The patterned surface seeds a particular crystallographic orientation at the substrate-liquid crystal interface. Also described are methods of forming the single-crystal chiral liquid crystal compositions.

A display region of an electronic device is enlarged. Alternatively, a display region of an electronic device is protected. Alternatively, a display device for extending a display region is provided. A system includes an electronic device including a first display portion positioned on a first surface including an upper surface of a housing and a second display portion positioned on a second surface including a first side surface of the housing, and a display device including a third display portion positioned on a third surface of a support portion and a connection portion having a function of connecting with the housing and a function of reversibly changing the relative positions of the support portion and the housing between a first configuration and a second configuration. The first configuration is a configuration in which the support portion covers the first display portion such that the second display portion is visible. The second configuration is a configuration in which the support portion and the housing are opened such that the first display portion, the second display portion, and the third display portion are visible.

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of liquid crystal display, and specifically discloses a liquid crystal lens and liquid crystal spectacles. The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate and a second substrate arranged oppositely, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, and an electrode unit including a first electrode and a second electrode. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes an annular electrode. The first electrode is located on a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate, and the second electrode is located on a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate. Under an effect of the first electrode and the second electrode, liquid crystals in the liquid crystal layer further form a Fresnel lens having an adjustable focal distance.

When polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal is driven by comb-shaped electrodes, a large electric field is generated near the electrodes, and electrostriction results in degradations in the switching speed of polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal. This optical switching engine is manufactured by inserting polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal between parallel plates on which are formed conventional thin film electrodes, followed by bonding a polarization grating plate thereto, and disposing or bonding two silicon wedges having triangular cross sections to the sides thereof so as to have rotational symmetry with each other.

A pixel array substrate and a driving method of a pixel array substrate are provided. The pixel array substrate includes a substrate, at least one pixel structure located on the substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The at least one pixel structure includes a micro light emitting diode (μLED), a supporting wall, a first bottom electrode located between the supporting wall and the μLED, and a first top electrode disposed on the supporting wall and separated from the first bottom electrode. The μLED includes a first electrode, a first semiconductor layer electrically connected to the first electrode, a second semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer located between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a second electrode electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer. The liquid crystal layer is disposed on the first bottom electrode and located between the supporting wall and the μLED.

Stable, macroscopic single-crystal chiral liquid crystal compositions are described. The compositions include a single-crystal chiral liquid crystal material on a patterned surface. The patterned surface seeds a particular crystallographic orientation at the substrate-liquid crystal interface. Also described are methods of forming the single-crystal chiral liquid crystal compositions.

A method for obtaining a material containing mesogenic compounds forming a liquid crystal mix with a stabilized blue phase. The method includes the steps of a) inducing the liquid crystal mix, contained in a chemical composition, to form the blue phase, then b) illuminating the chemical composition with a light beam of visible wavelength in order to trigger the polymerization of monomers contained in the chemical composition, to obtain the material comprising the liquid crystal mix in the blue phase stabilized by the polymerized monomers. The chemical composition contains a mesogenic system and a chemical photo-initiator system adapted to trigger the polymerization of the monomers when illuminated by the light beam of visible wavelength, in which the mesogenic system includes the mesogenic compounds forming the liquid crystal mix, a chiral dopant adapted to induce the blue phase, and a monomer mix comprising the monomers adapted to polymerize.

A switchable window includes an electro-optical layer of or including an anisotropic gel of polymer stabilized highly chiral liquid crystal, for example, blue phase liquid crystal, encapsulated in, for example, a mesogenic polymer inclusive shell, that forms a self-assembled, three-dimensional photonic crystal that remains electro-optically switchable under a moderate applied voltage (e.g., electric field). The liquid crystal (LC) arrangement may be achieved via a polymer assembled blue phase liquid crystal system having a substantially continuous polymer structure case surrounding well-defined discrete bodies of liquid crystal material arranged in a cellular manner. These assembled structures globally connect to form a matrix. This provides for reduction of angular birefringence of highly chiral LC systems, which advantageously reduces haze in applications such as switchable windows.