Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.439, 1945-1945, 2005
New FLC compounds with high optical anisotropy and the compositions based upon them
Continuing our interest in the ferroelectric liquid crystalline materials for display applications we have synthesized new chiral aryl esters of 4-alkyl-3-methylbiphenyl-4'-carboxylic acids. Using different percentage of these compounds and aryl esters of 4-alkyl-3-chlorobiphenyl-4'-carboxylic acids we have designed the FLC mixtures with values of spontaneous polarization from 30 to 170 nC/cm(2), tilt angle from 20 degrees to 40 degrees,, helical pitch (> 0.2 mu m) and the constant value of the optical anisotropy (similar to 0.35).