Abstract: A technique of producing a liquid crystal device, comprising: providing an assembly comprising a liquid crystal material contained directly between a polariser component and a first control component including a stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry; and containing further liquid crystal material directly between said polariser component of said assembly and another control component including another stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry.

Abstract: A technique of producing a liquid crystal device, comprising: providing an assembly (D) comprising a liquid crystal material (24) contained directly between a polariser component (14, 10, 8, 12, 16) and a first control component including a stack of layers (2) defining electrical control circuitry; and containing further liquid crystal material directly between said polariser component of said assembly (D) and another control component (C) including another stack of layers (20) defining electrical control circuitry.

Abstract: The present application relates to an organic electronic device, said electronic device comprising a multi-layer electrode as well as an organic semiconducting layer, as well as to a method for producing such organic electronic device.

Abstract: A technique, comprising: forming in situ on a support substrate: a first metal layer; a light-absorbing layer after the first metal layer; a conductor pattern after the light-absorbing layer; and a semiconductor layer after the conductor pattern; patterning the semiconductor layer using a resist mask to form a semiconductor pattern defining one or more semiconductor channels of one or more semiconductor devices; and patterning the light-absorbing layer using the resist mask and the conductor pattern, so as to selectively retain the light-absorbing layer in regions that are occupied by at least one of the resist mask and the conductor pattern.

Abstract: A technique comprising: forming an insulator over a first conductor pattern; patterning the insulator to form an insulator pattern which exposes the first conductor pattern in one or more via regions; forming a second conductor pattern over the insulator pattern, which second conductor pattern contacts said first conductor pattern in said one or more via regions; creating a more even topographic profile in said one or more via regions, with the second conductor pattern exposed outside the one or more via regions; forming a semiconductor (24) over the second conductor pattern for charge carrier transfer between the second conductor pattern and the semiconductor; and depositing a third conductor (26) over the semiconductor, for charge carrier transfer between the third conductor (26) and the semiconductor (24).

Abstract: A manufacturing process for forming a flexible assembly suitable for a curved sensor or display including a stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry is presented. The flexible assembly has a curved configuration and comprises at least first and second components (4, 8) laminated together in a stressed configuration due to their curvature. While the assembly is in said curved configuration at least the first and second components (4, 8) are cut to obtain one or more edges which are aligned to each other.

Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to a dielectric stack that includes a dielectric layer formed from a dielectric material that includes one or more constituent components each having a Tg value of 70° C. or lower and that is annealed at a temperature exceeding the highest Tg value of the one or more constituent components.

Abstract: A technique, comprising: producing at least first and second individual liquid crystal cells, wherein the first and second individual liquid crystal cells each comprise liquid crystal material between a respective pair of support components, and electrical circuitry operable to generate a refractive index pattern in the liquid crystal material; the method comprising adhering together at least the first and second liquid crystal cells to form a stack of liquid crystal cells; wherein the electrical circuitry of the first and second liquid crystal cells is operable together to generate a stack of refractive index patterns in the liquid crystal material of the stack of liquid crystal cells.

Abstract: Described are methods for assembling a display device by forcibly flexing a first component to conform to a curved surface, adhering the first component to the curved surface, forcibly flexing a second component to conform to an outer surface of the first component and adhering the second component to the first component. The first and second components each comprise at least one of: i) a touch sensor component or a component film of a touch sensor component; ii) at least one pair of orthogonal polariser sheets; iii) a liquid crystal cell comprising liquid crystal material contained between two containing films; iv) at least one encapsulation film; v) at least one diffuser sheet; vi) a backlight component; vii) a light-emitting diode unit; and viii) a circular polariser component, or a component film thereof, for use with a light-emitting diode unit.

Abstract: A method comprising: subjecting at least one or more barrier film components and one or more polariser film components for a liquid crystal display device to a first drying process; thereafter combining at least said barrier film components and polariser components to assemble upper and lower sub-assembly components; subjecting the upper and lower sub-assembly components to a second drying process; and thereafter combining the upper and lower sub-assembly components with at least a liquid crystal cell component to assemble a liquid crystal device.

Abstract: A technique of producing a liquid crystal device, comprising: providing a cell assembly comprising a liquid crystal material contained directly between (i) a polariser component comprising an active film and no more than one support film, and (ii) a first control component including a stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry; and containing further liquid crystal material directly between the polariser component of the assembly and another control component including another stack of layers defining electrical control circuitry.

Abstract: Method of forming and patterning in situ on a film component of a layer of spacer structure material to define spacer structures in at least active areas of a liquid crystal (LC) cell array. Applying counter component to the film component after dispensing sealant material onto one or more of the components in areas around each active area of the array, and after dispensing one or more drops of LC material onto one or more of the components in each active area of the array. The components are pressed together to spread the drops of LC material over the active areas so the sealant material for each LC cell interfaces with the LC material for the respective LC cell. Each deposition area has an inner perimeter, which is controllably varied across the array to compensate for variations in one or more properties of the spacer structures across the array.

Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) device comprising a stack of at least first and second LC cells in optical series, each of the first and second LC cells comprising two half-cells and LC material contained in a space at least partially defined by spacer structures forming an integral part of one or both half-cells; wherein the arrangement within an active area of the device of the spacer structures in one of the first and second LC cells is different to the arrangement within the active area of the device of the spacer structures in the other of the first and second LC cells; and wherein the difference between the two arrangements comprises an ordered aspect.

Abstract: A technique, comprising: removing a protective film from one side of a polarisation filter component to expose a dichroic doped polymer active film or a layer formed in situ on the dichroic doped polymer active film; and thereafter forming in situ on the side of the polarisation filter component one or more functional layers of a liquid crystal device.

Abstract: A technique of producing a stack defining a plurality of TFTs including at least source/drain electrodes and addressing lines at a source/drain level, wherein the method comprises: forming a patterned source/drain level stack comprising at least a first layer over the support substrate and a second layer over the first layer, to define at least said source/drain electrodes and said addressing lines; depositing semiconductor channel material over at least said source/drain electrodes and said addressing lines; and patterning the layer of semiconductor channel material by a patterning process; wherein the material of the first layer is more resistant to removal by said patterning process than the material of said second layer.

Abstract: A technique comprising: forming on a support film a first stack of layers defining an array of photodiodes; forming over the first stack of layers in situ on the support film a second stack of layers defining electrical circuitry by which the photoresponse of each photodiode is independently detectable via an array of conductors outside the array of photodiodes; wherein forming the first stack of layers comprises depositing an organic semiconductor material over a first electrode, and depositing a second electrode over the organic semiconductor material, wherein the electrical circuitry comprises transistors including photosensitive semiconductor channels, and the second electrode also functions to substantially block the incidence of light on the photosensitive semiconductor channels from the direction of the support film.

Abstract: A control component for a current-driven optical media is provided. The control component includes thin film transistors (TFT) for driving pixels of an active matrix optoelectronic device. An additional electrode is provided in a separate conducting layer within the control component in order to add a separate capacitance (C2) that is coupled to the gate electrode of the control component to supplement the capacitance (C1) already coupled between the gate and source electrodes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to azaborinine derivatives their synthesis as well as their use in organic electronic devices, particularly in organic light emitting devices, organic photovoltaic devices and organic photodetectors.

Abstract: A display device for conformal mounting on a curved surface inclined at an oblique angle relative to a horizontal plane, the display device comprising: a plurality of pixels, a first set of conductive lines connected to the plurality of pixels; and a second set of conductive lines connected to the plurality of pixels, wherein the first set of conductive lines and the second set of conductive lines are arranged to define a shape of each of the plurality of pixels such that the pixels appear, to a viewer, to extend at least one of horizontally or vertically across the display device when the display device is mounted on the curved surface.

Abstract: A technique, comprising: forming a stack comprising a semiconductor layer for providing the semiconductor channels of one or more transistors, and an insulator layer; and patterning the stack so as to form in a single process both: (i) one or more interconnection holes for connecting a conductor level on one side of the stack to a conductor level on the opposite side of the stack; and (ii) one or more leakage reduction trenches for reducing leakage paths via the semiconductor between conductor elements on one side of the stack.