47.2: An Essential Role of Diluters on the Fast Response Time for High Birefringence Liquid Crystals

Abstract

A new liquid crystal diluter was designed and synthesized to balance trade‐offs between low viscosity, high Δn, and large Δε in the LC mixture. Research results indicated that this diluter had excellent properties of low melting point, high Δn, and large Δε. Meanwhile, in a high‐Δn LC mixture, it could effectively reduce the viscoelastic coefficient (γ1/K11), and increase the As while maintaining an equivalent LC phase temperature range and Δn. It means that the LC diluter plays an essential role to improve the response time of LCs.