A liquid crystal lens, a display device and a driving method of the display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a driving electrode layer and blue phase liquid crystals disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; the driving electrode layer includes driving electrodes, each driving electrode includes at least two electrode pairs, the electrode pair includes two sub-electrodes which are disposed opposite to each other and can be applied with a voltage separately, and all the sub-electrodes in the same driving electrode are insulated from each other; the sub-electrodes of different electrode pairs in the same driving electrode are unparallel to each other; and the blue phase liquid crystals at different positions have deformations of different degrees in electrical fields with different intensities generated by the different sub-electrodes.

A modulator material layer includes a polymer matrix formed of a plurality of cross-linked polymer molecules and a plurality of droplets of liquid crystals within the polymer matrix. A planar macrocycle dye is dispersed within the plurality of droplets of liquid crystals. The planar macrocycle dye can include one or more of a phthalocanine, a porphyrin, a naphthalocyanine, a metallophthalocyanine, a metalloporphyrin, or a metallonaphthalocyanine.

The present invention relates to liquid crystal media comprising polymerizable mesogenic compounds with a bent shape, and to electro-optical displays comprising these media as light modulation media. In particular the electro-optical displays according to the present invention are displays, which are operated at a temperature, at which the liquid crystal modulation media are in an optically isotropic phase, preferably in a blue phase.

Disclosed herein is a method for obtaining a material comprising 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 liquid crystal lens, a display device and a driving method of the display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a driving electrode layer and blue phase liquid crystals disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; the driving electrode layer includes driving electrodes, each driving electrode includes at least two electrode pairs, the electrode pair includes two sub-electrodes which are disposed opposite to each other and can be applied with a voltage separately, and all the sub-electrodes in the same driving electrode are insulated from each other; the sub-electrodes of different electrode pairs in the same driving electrode are unparallel to each other; and the blue phase liquid crystals at different positions have deformations of different degrees in electrical fields with different intensities generated by the different sub-electrodes.

The present invention relates to mesogenic media and to electro-optical displays comprising these media as light modulation media. In particular, the electro-optical displays according to the present invention are displays, which are operated at a temperature, at which the mesogenic modulation media are in an optically isotropic phase, preferably in a blue phase.

A polymer-dispersed blue-phase (PDBP) liquid crystal film is formed from a polymer-based latex and blue-phase liquid crystals that are combined using an emulsification process or a polymerization-induced phase separation process. The resultant PDBP liquid crystal film includes droplets formed by the polymer-based latex that encapsulate the blue-phase liquid crystals therein, so as to allow the blue-phase liquid crystals to have a blue phase at room temperature. As such, the PDBP liquid crystal film is conducive for use in manufacturing processes, such as LCD (liquid crystal display) manufacturing processes, while providing desirable optical features, such as field-induced birefringence at low switching voltages.

A dual frequency liquid crystal may be stabilized in the blue phase by a polymer matrix to provide an improved blue phase temperature range having a magnitude of at least about 65 C. Polymer-stabilized, blue phase dual frequency liquid crystal compositions and methods for producing polymer-stabilized, blue phase dual frequency liquid crystals are disclosed.

A blue phase liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. In the display device, there is a pixel electrode or a common electrode arranged right opposite to each of the viewing angle switching electrodes. In a narrow viewing angle mode, a vertical electric field can be generated between two electrodes that are arranged right opposite to each other, so that liquid crystal molecules in the vertical electric field can be in a vertical alignment state. According to the present disclosure, since almost all oblique light can pass through the liquid crystal molecules in the vertical alignment state, the probability that the viewing angle switching dead area occurs can be reduced to a large extent.

Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a manufacture method thereof. The liquid crystal display device is a blue phase liquid crystal display device. The alignment layer is not required. The liquid crystal composition forming the liquid crystal layer comprises liquid crystal material, quantum dots material mixed in the liquid crystal material, polymeric monomer and chiral material; the polymeric monomer is polymerized to form a polymer network under a blue phase temperature range as forming the liquid crystal layer, which can stabilize the blue phase liquid crystal, and thus to expand the blue phase temperature range. The grain size of the quantum dots material in the liquid crystal composition is in the nano scale, which can expand the blue phase liquid crystal temperature range. Namely, the blue phase temperature range of the liquid crystal material has already been expanded before the polymeric monomer is polymerized.