METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTERACTION BETWEEN SUBSTRATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:JP2000275640A

    公开(公告)日:2000-10-06

    申请号:JP8390199

    申请日:1999-03-26

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reversibly vary the alignment of liquid crystal molecules, according to the intensity of light by allowing a polymer of a photopholymerizable compd. which is made to be present on the inner surface of one of substrates which constitute a liquid crystal cell. SOLUTION: A polymer of a liquid crystalline compd., consisting of a coupled product of a divinyl compd. and an azobenzene compd., is made to be present on the surface of a substrate in contact with a liquid crystal. The liquid crystalline compd. is represented by CH2=C(R1)COO(CH2)nN(R2)-Ph-N=N-Ph-COO-PH- CH=CH2. In this formula, each of R1 and R2 is a hydrogen atom or 1-8C alkyl group, Ph is a paraphenylene group, and n is a number 1 to 20. The divinyl compd. has two vinyl groups in the molecule and has 1,000 mol.wt. or smaller, preferably 400 or smaller. The lower limit of the mol.wt. is about 250. The compd. expressed by the formula is preferably used. In the formula, A is a straight-chain molecular skeleton, and each of R3 to R8 is a hydrogen atom or substituent.

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