Polymerizable liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal display device thereof
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of polymerizable liquid crystal composition and the PS(polymer stabilizing containing the type liquid-crystal composition) escope.
Background technology
Liquid-crystal display (also referred to as LC indicating meter, referred to as " indicating meter " or " LCD ") the normally TN(twisted-nematic of current use) those of type.But these have the defect of striking contrast degree view angle dependency.
In addition, known so-called VA(vertical orientation) indicating meter, it has wider visual angle.The liquid crystal cell of VA indicating meter is containing liquid crystal media layer between two transparency electrodes, and wherein this liquid crystal media has negative dielectric (DC) anisotropy (Δ ε) value usually.In the switched off state, the molecule of liquid crystal layer is perpendicular to electrode surface (vertical plane ground) orientation or the orientation with inclination vertical plane.When voltage is applied on electrode, occur liquid crystal molecules parallel in electrode surface reprovision to.
In addition, known OCB(is optical compensation curved) indicating meter, it is based on birefringence effect and have so-called " bending " orientation and usually positive (DC) anisotropic liquid crystal layer.When applying voltage be, occur liquid crystal molecule perpendicular to electrode surface reprovision to.Usually containing one or more Birefringent optical phase shift films, to prevent from bending the less desirable to optical transparency of box in the dark state.OCB indicating meter has wider visual angle and shorter time of response compared with TN indicating meter.
Especially, there will be a known in IPS(face and switch) indicating meter, it contains the liquid crystal layer between two substrates, wherein only has a substrate to have electrode layer, usually has the structure of comb shape.Thus upon application of a voltage, the electric field with the remarkable component being parallel to liquid crystal layer is produced.This cause the reprovision of liquid crystal molecule in aspect to.
In addition, proposing so-called FFS(fringing field to switch) indicating meter is (especially see S.H.Jung etc., Jpn.J.Appl.Phys., the 43rd volume, No.3,2004,1028), it contains two electrodes equally in same substrate, but contrary with IPS indicating meter, they wherein only one be the form of the electrode of structurizing (comb shape), and another electrode is non-structured.Produce strong so-called vertical component and strong horizontal component thus.Both IPS indicating meter and FFS indicating meter have low contrast gradient view angle dependency.
The another kind development of the type of the above-mentioned indicating meter mentioned is so-called " PS " (" polymer stabilising ") indicating meter, and it is also known as term " PSA " (" polymer-stabilized alignment ").Wherein, will a small amount of (such as 0.3%, typically >=0.1% to≤5%, preferably reach≤scope of 3% in) polymerizable compound adds liquid crystal media, and introducing liquid crystal and afterwards with the voltage applied, usually making it be polymerized in situ in-between the electrodes by UV photopolymerization or be cross-linked.These mixtures also optionally can comprise initiator, such as, describe in US6784665.Preferably in the mixture comprising polymerizable compound, add initiator, such as, from Ciba's with the amount of 0-1%
1076.By the mesomorphic of polymerizability or liquid crystalline cpd, also referred to as " reactive mesogen " (RM), add liquid crystal compound and confirmed to be suitable for especially.Meanwhile, PSA principle is used for various traditional liquid-crystal display.Such as known PSA-VA, PSA-OCB, PSA-IPS/FFS and PS-TN indicating meter.As can be verified in testing cassete, PSA method causes the stabilization of the initial orientation of liquid crystal in box.In PSA-OCB indicating meter, therefore may realize the stabilization of warp architecture, thus make bias voltage reduce or save even completely.When PSA-VA indicating meter, reduce from " tilt angle " measured perpendicular to display surface, this has positive effect to the time of response wherein.When PSA indicating meter, the specially polymerization of reacting property mesomorphic in liquid crystal compound.Its prerequisite is that liquid crystal compound itself does not comprise any polymerizable components.
In addition, verified so-called positivity VA indicating meter is particularly advantageous embodiment.In these indicating meters, use Dielectric positive liquid crystal media.Here under no-voltage original state, the initial orientation of liquid crystal is vertical plane, is namely substantially perpendicular to substrate.Apply voltage to interdigitated electrodes, it produces the field being arranged essentially parallel to liquid crystal media layer, and this causes liquid crystal being converted into the orientation being arranged essentially parallel to substrate.Also the usual interdigitated electrodes by the type is used for IPS indicating meter.Corresponding polymer stabilising (PSA) also demonstrate that be successful in these positivity VA indicating meters.The remarkable reduction of time of response can also be realized.
Particularly for monitor and particularly TV application, and for movable application (mobile TV) and " notebook " TV(NBTV), still require the advantage that the optimization u.PSA method of the contrast gradient of time of response and liquid-crystal display and brightness (being namely also projectiveness) can provide crucial herein.Particularly when PSA-IPS, PSA-FFS and PSA-positivity VA, can realize shortening the time of response, and not have significant adverse to affect on other parameter, such as, especially, the view angle dependency that the contrast gradient of these indicating meters is favourable.
Disclose the indicating meter comprising liquid crystal compound at such as WO2009/156118A1, it has positive dielectric anisotrop.
But, when having been found that in for PSA indicating meter, from liquid crystal compound well known in the prior art and RM, still there is various defect.Preferably should not add light trigger by means of UV light to be polymerized, this may be favourable to some application.In addition, " material system " that comprise liquid crystal compound (hereinafter also referred to " liquid crystal host mixture " or also referred to as " body mixture ") and polymerizable components of selection should have minimum possible rotary viscosity and the possible electric property of the best.Here should emphasize so-called " voltage keeps ratio " (being called for short VHR or HR).Especially for PSA indicating meter, be the most important thing with the high VHR after UV rayed, because UV exposes the necessary part in normally indicating meter preparation process, but in the indicating meter certainly also exposing as " normally " and appeared at.
But, produced problem is, up to the present also the liquid crystal compound of not all and the combination of polymerizable components are all suitable for PSA indicating meter, because such as, VHR is often not enough to for TFT indicating meter, or because the stabilization of the orientation of liquid crystal compound can not be satisfactory.
Especially, expect to have for the available type material of PSA indicating meter, it has significantly less shortcoming for practical application.
Therefore, exist to PSA indicating meter, particularly IPS and FFS type, with for the liquid crystal media of this class display and the great demand of polymerizable compound, they do not demonstrate above-mentioned defect or only not half demonstrate these defects, and there is the performance of improvement.Especially, there is the great demand for PSA indicating meter and the material for PSA indicating meter, it promotes that high ratio resistance has large operating temperature range simultaneously, short time of response (or even at low temperatures), and low threshold voltage, a large amount of gray scale, high-contrast and wide viewing angle, and also there is high-voltage maintenance ratio (particularly also after uv exposure), and there is the time of response of improvement especially.
For more common indicating meters with especially when PSA-IPS and PSA-FFS indicating meter, it is necessary for having the novel liquid crystal medium improving performance.Especially, address-time must be improved for many type useds.Therefore, it is necessary for having relatively low viscosity, especially having the liquid crystal media of relatively low rotary viscosity.
Therefore, great demand is existed to the liquid crystal media with the character being applicable to practical application, this character such as wide nematic phase range, correspond to suitable optical anisotropy (Δ n), suitable high Δ ε and the low viscosity in particular for the time of response short especially of type of display used.
Summary of the invention
The object of this invention is to provide a kind of liquid-crystal composition, it possesses the liquid crystal media with suitable Δ n, suitable high Δ ε and nematic phase range, it does not have the shortcoming of prior art material, or at least only in the degree significantly reduced, has these shortcomings.
One aspect of the present invention relates to a kind of liquid-crystal composition, comprises:
The compound of one or more general formula Is
The compound of one or more general formula Is I
and
The compound of one or more general formula III
Wherein,
R
l, R
2and R
3identical or different, represent that H, carbonatoms are alkyl or the alkoxyl group of 1-7 independently of one another, or carbonatoms is the thiazolinyl of 2-7;
P
1and P
2identical or different, represent independently of one another
or
Sp
land Sp
2identical or different, represent that carbonatoms is spacer groups or the singly-bound of 1-6 independently of one another;
X
1and X
2identical or different, represent-O-,-COO-,-OCO-,-OCO-O-or singly-bound independently of one another;
with
identical or different, Isosorbide-5-Nitrae-phenylene that on representative ring, one or more hydrogen can be substituted by fluorine or methyl independently of one another;
represent
or
Z
1represent singly-bound ,-CH=CH-or-CH
2cH
2-;
L
lrepresent H or F;
A and b is identical or different, represents 0 or 1 independently of one another; And
At least one in the compound of wherein said a kind of general formula Ш or the compound of described multiple general formula Ш is the compound of general formula Ш-1
Wherein,
R
4represent that carbonatoms be the alkyl of 1-7 or carbonatoms is the thiazolinyl of 2-7;
L
2represent H or F.
In embodiments of the invention, the compound of preferred described general formula I accounts for the 0.01-5.0% of described liquid-crystal composition gross weight; The compound of described general formula II accounts for the 40-85% of described liquid-crystal composition gross weight; And the compound of described general formula Ш accounts for the 10-55% of described liquid-crystal composition gross weight, and the compound of wherein said general formula Ш-1 accounts for the 2-25% of described liquid-crystal composition gross weight.
Liquid-crystal composition of the present invention also comprises:
Meet the one or more of compounds in the compound of general formulae IV:
Wherein,
R
5represent that carbonatoms be the alkyl of 1-7 or carbonatoms is the thiazolinyl of 2-7;
with
identical or different, represent independently of one another
or
wherein
in one or more hydrogen can be substituted by fluorine;
C represents 0 or 1.
In some embodiments of the present invention, particularly preferably the compound of described general formula I accounts for the 0.05-1.0% of described liquid-crystal composition gross weight; The compound of described general formula II accounts for the 40-70% of described liquid-crystal composition gross weight; The compound of described general formula Ш accounts for the 15-40% of described liquid-crystal composition gross weight; And the compound of described general formulae IV accounts for the 1-30% of described liquid-crystal composition gross weight, and the compound of wherein said general formula Ш-1 accounts for the 5-20% of described liquid-crystal composition gross weight.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the compound of described general formula I is selected from one or more of compound in the group that Compound I-1 forms to I-5:
and
In some embodiments of the present invention, the compound of described general formula II is selected from one or more of compound in compound ii-1 to the group of II-18 composition:
and
In some embodiments of the present invention, the compound of described general formula Ш is selected from one or more of compound in the group of compound Ш-2 to Ш-7 composition:
and
In some embodiments of the present invention, the compound of described general formula III-1 is selected from one or more of compound in the group that compound III-1-1 to III-1-3 forms:
and
In some embodiments of the present invention, the compound of described general formula I V is selected from one or more of compound in the group that compound IV-l to IV-l1 forms:
and
The present invention relates to a kind of liquid-crystal display on the other hand, and it comprises:
Two plate bases; And
Liquid crystal aligning layer;
Wherein, described two plate bases, in display area, wherein there is not electrode in a plate base; Described liquid crystal aligning layer comprises liquid-crystal composition of the present invention.
The present invention relates to the liquid-crystal display comprising liquid-crystal composition of the present invention, particularly PS indicating meter, preferred PS-IPS or PS-FFS escope, especially preferably PS-FFS escope.
Another aspect of the invention relates to according to liquid-crystal composition of the present invention purposes in a liquid crystal display, the purposes particularly in the PS escope containing liquid-crystal composition.
The present invention is by carrying out combination experiment to above-claimed cpd, by with the comparison contrasted, determine the liquid crystal media comprising above-mentioned liquid-crystal composition, there is suitable refractive anisotrop, suitable high dielectric anisotropy, suitable nematic temperature range and the characteristic such as response speed faster.
In the present invention if no special instructions, described ratio is weight ratio, and all temperature are degree celsius temperature, and FFS testing cassete is selected in the test of described response time data, and electrode is wide is 4 μm, and interelectrode distance is 6 μm, and box is thick is 4 μm.
Embodiment
Below with reference to specific embodiments, the present invention is described.It should be noted that, the following examples are example of the present invention, are only used for the present invention is described, and are not used for limiting the present invention.When not departing from purport of the present invention or scope, other combination and the various improvement in design of the present invention can be carried out.
For ease of expressing, in following embodiment, the coded representation of unit structure listed by table 1 of liquid-crystal composition:
The unit structure code of table 1 liquid crystalline cpd
Compound for following structural formula:
This structural formula as represented by code listed in Table 1, then can be expressed as: nCCGF, and the n in code represents the C atomicity of left end alkyl, and such as n is " 3 ", namely represents that this alkyl is-C
3h
7; C in code represents cyclohexyl.
In following examples test event to write a Chinese character in simplified form code name as follows:
Cp(DEG C): clearing point (to row-isotropic phase transition temperature)
Δ n: optical anisotropy (589nm, 20 DEG C)
Δ ε: dielectric anisotropy (1KHz, 25 DEG C)
γ 1: reverse viscosity (mPa*s, at 20 DEG C)
τ off: until reach the time (ms) when transmitance 10% is cut off
Wherein, refractive anisotrop use Abbe refractometer under sodium lamp (589nm) light source, 20 DEG C test; Measurement box is TN90 type, thick 7 μm of box.
Each composition adopted below in an example, all can be synthesized by known method, or be obtained by commercial sources.These synthetic technologys are conventional, and each liquid crystalline cpd that obtains meets electrical type compound standard after tested.
According to the proportioning of each liquid-crystal composition of following examples regulation, prepare liquid-crystal composition.The preparation of described liquid-crystal composition carries out according to the ordinary method of this area, and as taked the modes such as heating, ultrasonic wave, suspension, ratio mixing is obtained according to the rules.
Prepare and study the liquid-crystal composition provided in the following example.Show composition and its performance parameter test result of each liquid-crystal composition below.
Comparative example 1
Be mixed with the liquid-crystal composition LC-1 of comparative example 1 by each compound listed in table 2 and weight percentage, it is filled between liquid-crystal display two substrates and carries out performance test, and test data is as shown in the table:
Table 2 liquid crystal combination composition formula and test performance thereof
In liquid-crystal composition LC-1, add the polymerizable compound I-1 as follows accounting for described liquid-crystal composition LC-1 gross weight 0.2%, and be polymerized under 365nm UV optical condition, form polymerizable liquid crystal composition M1, the τ off of gained mixture is 34.6ms.
Embodiment 1
Be mixed with the liquid-crystal composition LC-2 of embodiment 1 by each compound listed in table 3 and weight percentage, it is filled between liquid-crystal display two substrates and carries out performance test, and test data is as shown in the table:
Table 3 liquid crystal combination composition formula and test performance thereof
In liquid-crystal composition LC-2, add polymerizable compound I-1 as follows, the weight ratio of described polymerizable compound I-1 and described liquid-crystal composition LC-2 is 0.2:100, and be polymerized under 365nm UV optical condition, form polymerizable liquid crystal composition M2, the τ off of gained mixture is 25.3ms:
This polymerizability liquid-crystal composition is applicable to PS-FFS type liquid-crystal display.
Embodiment 2
Be mixed with the liquid-crystal composition LC-3 of embodiment 2 by each compound listed in table 4 and weight percentage, it is filled between liquid-crystal display two substrates and carries out performance test, and test data is as shown in the table:
Table 4 liquid crystal combination composition formula and test performance thereof
In liquid-crystal composition LC-3, add polymerizable compound I-1 as follows, the weight ratio of described polymerizable compound I-1 and described liquid-crystal composition LC-3 is 0.4:100, and be polymerized under 365nm UV optical condition, form polymerizable liquid crystal composition M3, the τ off of gained mixture is 25.6ms:
This polymerizability liquid-crystal composition is applicable to PS-FFS type liquid-crystal display.
Embodiment 3
Be mixed with the liquid-crystal composition LC-4 of embodiment 3 by each compound listed in table 5 and weight percentage, it is filled between liquid-crystal display two substrates and carries out performance test, and test data is as shown in the table:
Table 5 liquid crystal combination composition formula and test performance thereof
In liquid-crystal composition LC-4, add polymerizable compound I-1 as follows, the weight ratio of described polymerizable compound I-1 and described liquid-crystal composition LC-4 is 0.2:100, and be polymerized under 365nm UV optical condition, form polymerizable liquid crystal composition M4, the τ off of gained mixture is 24.8ms:
This polymerizability liquid-crystal composition is applicable to PS-FFS type liquid-crystal display.
Embodiment 4
Be mixed with the liquid-crystal composition LC-5 of embodiment 4 by each compound listed in table 6 and weight percentage, it is filled between liquid-crystal display two substrates and carries out performance test, and test data is as shown in the table:
Table 6 liquid crystal combination composition formula and test performance thereof
In liquid-crystal composition LC-5, add polymerizable compound I-4 as follows, the weight ratio of described polymerizable compound I-4 and described liquid-crystal composition LC-5 is 0.2:100, and be polymerized under 365nm UV optical condition, form polymerizable liquid crystal composition M5, the τ off of gained mixture is 25.3ms:
This polymerizability liquid-crystal composition is applicable to PS-FFS type liquid-crystal display.
Known by the test data of above-mentioned comparative example 1, embodiment 1, embodiment 2, embodiment 3 and embodiment 4, liquid-crystal composition of the present invention has suitable dielectric anisotropy, suitable refractive anisotrop and less viscosity.Therefore, adopt the indicating meter response speed containing liquid-crystal composition of the present invention faster, be applicable to PS indicating meter, especially in PS-IPS and PS-FFS indicating meter.