A liquid crystal display device, being widely used in the fields such as electronic tags, electronic papers, business cards and flexible display screens or the like, and a driving method for the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device has an upper substrate, a lower substrate and one or more layers of an encapsulated liquid crystal sandwiched between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The layers of the encapsulated liquid crystal include two different liquid crystal microcapsules uniformly mixed. Combined with a driving method of a combination of high-low voltage and high-low temperature, a color display effect of high contrast and repeatable writing can be achieved.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for an electronic display are disclosed. More specifically, the invention and disclosure relates to an electronic display that has a diffuse, paper-like reflectance characteristic for visible light, while being retroreflective and non-diffuse for infrared light, for easy image detection and analysis with infrared cameras, while preserving viewing properties of an electronic paper display for humans.

A cholesteric liquid crystal display device and a driving method for improving non-uniform image quality of the cholesteric liquid crystal display device. The cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes a cholesteric liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal drive unit. The cholesteric liquid crystal display panel is composed of multiple row circuit structures and multiple column circuit structures. The liquid crystal driving unit sequentially outputs column driving voltages to a plurality of column circuit structures in a scanning manner. After scanning the multiple column circuit structures, the liquid crystal driving unit applies an unselected voltage to the multiple column circuit structures together with more than 18 times the scanning unit time course, so as to make the brightness of the overall picture more uniform.

Provided is a liquid crystal handwriting board. The liquid crystal handwriting board includes: a liquid crystal panel, a photosensitive assembly, and a control assembly; wherein the liquid crystal panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate that are opposite; the photosensitive assembly includes a plurality of photosensitive elements; and the control assembly is electrically connected to the liquid crystal panel and the photosensitive assembly, and is configured to determine position information of a pixel region for erasure by detecting position information of target light irradiated to the liquid crystal panel by the photosensitive assembly and supply a pixel voltage to the plurality of pixel electrodes in the pixel region for erasure, such that a voltage difference is present between the plurality of pixel electrodes in the pixel region for erasure and the common electrode.

Multi-state switchability is highly desirable in optoelectronic devices. For liquid crystal (LC) based devices, the stability of any configuration is achieved through a balance between imposed interactions and the LC's orientational elasticity. In most cases, the latter acts to resist deformation. By combining surface topography and chemical patterning, provided here are the effects of saddle-splay orientational elasticity, a property that, despite being intrinsic to all LCs, is routinely suppressed. Utilizing theory and continuum elastic calculations, provided here are example conditions for which, even using generic, achiral LC materials, spontaneously broken surface symmetries develop. Also provided are multi-stable devices in which a weak, but directional, applied field switches between spontaneously-polar surface state domains. The disclosed approach is useful in low-field and fast-switching optoelectronic devices, beyond those attainable by current technologies.

The present application relates to a novel liquid crystal compound and a use thereof. The novel liquid crystal compounds of the present application can exhibit a smectic A phase over a wide temperature range. The novel liquid crystal compounds of the present application can be usefully used in the technical fields to which smectic A liquid crystals can be applied, for example, bistable devices.

Compositions comprising liquid crystal composition(s) and isotropic liquid composition(s), and optionally, one or more salt(s) and methods of using same. In various examples, a composition is a bistable liquid crystalline emulsion. In various examples, a composition exhibits reversible emulsification and/or demulsification when subjected to an electric field. An optical device can comprise the composition(s). In various examples, device is an optical device, such as, for example, a light shutter, which may be a bistable light shutter or the like, a display, a television, a sensor, a window, which may be a smart window, an energy efficient window, a privacy window, or the like, a smart label, an electronic paper, an electrooptical device, or the like.

A variable area flowmeter having a float and having a display unit, the display unit includes a pointer element, the pointer element is connected directly or indirectly to the float such that the pointer element is mechanically deflected by the float during the measuring process. The variable area flowmeter that operates particularly reliably and is flexibly applicable at the same time is achieved in that the display unit comprises at least one bi-stable display which only requires an energy supply in order to modify the displayed representation and/or to restore the representation.

Provided is a liquid crystal handwriting board. The liquid crystal handwriting board includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a third substrate, a first liquid crystal layer, and a second liquid crystal layer; wherein the first substrate includes: a first base, and a first pixel electrode and a transparent electrode, wherein the first pixel electrode is insulated from the transparent electrode, and the first pixel electrode is closer to the second substrate than the transparent electrode is; wherein the first substrate, the first liquid crystal layer and the second substrate are configured to form a display portion of the liquid crystal handwriting board; and the first substrate, the second liquid crystal layer and the third substrate are configured to form a writing portion of the liquid crystal handwriting board.

The invention provides a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a bistable liquid crystal display panel, and belong to the field of bistable liquid crystal display technology, which can solve the problem of high transmittance in black state and low transmittance in light state in the conventional bistable liquid crystal display device. The display substrate of the invention comprises a base substrate and a biphenyl polymer layer provided on the base substrate. The manufacturing method of the display substrate comprises: applying biphenyl monomers on a base substrate; and applying an electric field parallel to the base substrate to the biphenyl monomers, so that the biphenyl monomers are polymerized into a biphenyl polymer layer. The invention may be applied to a bistable liquid crystal display device, especially a bistable liquid crystal display device using cholesteric liquid crystal.