Light enters the display, goes through a polarizer, and is twisted by a liquid crystal material. The first successful LCDs used two types of liquid crystals – chiral and nematic. By combining ...

This change in orientation affects the light's ability to pass through the liquid crystal layer, enabling the display to produce images. An LCD consists of several layers, including two polarizing ...

More than $2 billion has been spent over the past 15 years in trying to develop the technology and infrastructure behind liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) displays. After a fitful start ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In ...

More information: Hiromasa Goto et al, Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral Polyisocyanides from Achiral Monomers with Living Polymerization in a Liquid Crystal Reaction Field, Macromolecules (2025).

Chiral molecules come in two mirror-image ... long-lasting multicolored image was projected on a liquid crystal display using ...

This synergistic combination opens up new possibilities for advanced applications in various fields, including displays, sensors, drug delivery, and photonics. Schematic representation of liquid ...

LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) IPS-LCD (In-Plane Switching Liquid Crystal Display) OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) The screen, when combined ...

Certain advanced technologies, such as 3D displays, biosensing, and security printing, can utilize circularly polarized ...