Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel including a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, an alignment layer, a polymer layer, scan lines, data lines, pixel structures, first capacitor bottom electrodes and second capacitor bottom electrodes, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. Each pixel structure has a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. Each first capacitor bottom electrode is disposed between the first pixel electrode and the first substrate. Each second capacitor bottom electrode disposed between the second pixel electrode and the first substrate includes a first pattern and a plurality of second patterns. The first pattern extends from a first side to an opposite second side of the second pixel electrode. The second patterns connected to the first pattern are disposed on the first side and the second side. The second pattern at least partly overlaps a region between the second pixel electrode and the data line.

Abstract: Single-layered color cholesteric liquid crystal display devices and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The color cholesteric liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate structure having a base and periodic protrusion banks. A second substrate structure is disposed opposite the first substrate structure to enclose the periodic protrusion banks, and divide a plurality of color sub-pixel channels. A plurality of color cholesteric liquid crystals are respectfully filled in each of the color sub-pixel channel, wherein the base and the periodic protrusion banks are made of continuously integral material.

Abstract: There are provided a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) display not using a backlight unit and a method of fabricating the same. The PDLC display comprises a rear substrate over which a thin film transistor (TFT), a first electrode, and a second electrode are formed, a front substrate apart from the rear substrate and having a first black matrix formed thereon corresponding to a region where the TFT is formed, a PDLC layer disposed below the first black matrix and formed between the front and rear substrates, a light source formed on one side of the PDLC layer and configured to provide light to the side of the PDLC layer, and a first reflection plate formed on the other side of the PDLC layer and configured to reflect light incident via the PDLC layer.

Abstract: A display device for capturing and displaying images along a single optical axis, having an image capture device for capturing the objective image through the display panel when the display device is in a second transmissive state; an image supply source for providing an image to a display panel when the display panel is in a first display state; a mechanism for alternating placing the display panel between the first display state and second transmissive state such that an image can be viewed on the display screen and the object can be captured such that the alternating between the first display state and the second transmissive state is substantially imperceptible to a user of the display panel; and a mechanism for providing digitally image processing for captured images prior to display.

Abstract: A plurality of liquid crystal cells are formed by encapsulating pieces of liquid crystal material with in a plurality of first sealing members, respectively, between a pair of flexible substrate base materials. Only respective parts of the pair of substrate base materials are contained inside a vacuum container, and the liquid crystal cells are formed inside the vacuum container reduced in pressure.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display device that includes a first alignment film and a second alignment film that are provided on opposing face sides of a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first alignment film and the second alignment film and that includes liquid crystal molecules with negative dielectric constant anisotropy, wherein the first alignment film includes a compound in which a first polymer compound that includes a cross-linked functional group or a polymerized functional group as a side chain is cross-linked or polymerized, the second alignment film includes a compound in which a second polymer compound is cross-linked or polymerized, and a pretilt is conferred on the liquid crystal molecules by cross-linking or polymerizing the first polymer compound by the first alignment film and vertically aligning the liquid crystal molecules by the second alignment film.

Abstract: A liquid crystal etalon includes a chiral nematic material contained in a liquid crystal cell having alignment surfaces configured to bias the chiral nematic material toward a twisted liquid crystal configuration with a twist less than 360°. Electrodes are arranged to apply an operative electrical bias to the liquid crystal cell. Mirrors disposed about the chiral nematic material define a resonant optical cavity. At a first electrical bias the etalon is transmissive for light of a first wavelength via a selected liquid crystal twist angle and cavity thickness at which different non-equal eigenmodes reach resonance conditions simultaneously. In a projector embodiment, a projection system with a field sequential image projection light source is coupled with the liquid crystal etalon, the etalon electrodes are patterned into pixels defining a display area, and the projector is operated in a field sequential illumination mode.

Abstract: A display panel including a substrate, a first electrode layer, a plurality of partition structures, a liquid display medium, a cap layer, a buffer layer and a second electrode layer is provided. The first electrode layer is disposed on the substrate. The partition structures are disposed on the first electrode layer, exposing a part of the first electrode layer. The liquid display medium is disposed on the first electrode layer between the partition structures. The cap layer is formed on the liquid display medium, and a buffer layer is formed on the cap layer. The second electrode layer is disposed on the buffer layer.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a liquid-crystalline polymer composition comprising a nanostructured hollow-carbon material and a liquid-crystalline polymer. The nanostructured hollow-carbon material may comprises particles, each particle of which is selected from the group consisting of a particle which is composed of a carbon part and a hollow part and has a structure that the hollow part is entirely enclosed by the carbon part; and a particle which is composed of a carbon part and a hollow part and has a structure that the hollow part is partly enclosed by the carbon part.

Abstract: A display device having a light-emitting element and a see-through capability, with which a variety of display modes can be exhibited depending on a use application or situation. In such a display device having a see-through capability, between a first display portion having pixels including dual-emission type light-emitting elements and a second display portion having a light-scattering liquid crystal layer, a shutter-shaped light-blocking unit is provided so that a variety of display modes can be exhibited depending on use applications or situations by selecting modes of the first display portion, the second display portion, and the shutter-shaped light-blocking unit.

Abstract: A reflective polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) display device may include a plurality of first and second electrodes on the first and second substrates, the first and second substrates separate from each other, a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer between the plurality of first and second electrodes, the PDLC layer including polymer, liquid crystal, and a chain transfer reagent, and a specular reflection plate on the first substrate.

Abstract: In order to improve durability, a display apparatus includes a substrate; an encapsulation substrate facing the substrate; a display unit disposed between the substrate and the encapsulation substrate; a sealing unit disposed between the substrate and the encapsulation substrate so as to bond the substrate and the encapsulation substrate and spaced from the display unit; and a protective member formed over at least one surface among surfaces of the substrate and the encapsulation substrate, except surfaces facing the display unit. The protective member includes a base, a plurality of capsules comprising monomers, and a catalyst inducing polymerization of the monomers.

Abstract: A display device includes a main display unit and a liquid crystal display cover coupled with the main display unit. The liquid crystal display cover is movable between open and closed positions with respect to the main display unit. The liquid crystal display cover includes a lower substrate, an upper substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The lower substrate includes a plurality of first pixels thereon. The upper substrate faces the lower substrate and has a first common electrode thereon. The liquid crystal layer is between the lower substrate and the upper substrate.

Abstract: Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to ruggedized switchable glazings, and/or methods of making the same. The PDLC stack of certain example embodiments includes an outer substrate, a low-E UV blocking coating deposited on an inner surface of the outer substrate, a first PVB or EVA laminate, a first PET layer, a first TCO layer, the PDLC layer, a second TCO layer, a second PET layer, a second PVB or EVA laminate, and an inner substrate. The substrates may be glass substrates. The low-E UV blocking coating may include at least two layers of or including silver and/or may include one or more IR layers. Thus, certain example embodiments may advantageously reduce one or more problems associated with residual haze, color change, flicker, structural changes in the polymer and/or the LC, degradations in state-switching response times, delamination, etc.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has at least a pair of transparent substrates, polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, and a transparent film having an absolute value |Re| of in-plane retardation Re of 10 nm or smaller in the visible light region, having an absolute value |Rth| of thickness-wise retardation Rth of 30 nm or smaller in the visible light region, having an absolute value |Re(400)?Re(700)| of difference between values of in-plane retardation Re at 400 nm and 700 nm of 10 nm or smaller, and having an absolute value |Rth(400)?Rth(700)| of difference between values of thickness-wise retardation Rth at 400 nm and 700 nm of 35 nm or smaller.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate with a gap therebetween, a thin film transistor formed over the first substrate, an interlayer insulating film formed over the thin film transistor, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor, at least one common electrode formed over the interlayer insulating film such that an electric field in parallel with the first substrate is produced by the common electrode and the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A reflective polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) display device includes a PDLC layer between first and second electrodes, the PDLC layer including polymers, liquid crystals, and dichroic dyes having negative dichroism.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal sealed between two substrates, and a polymer layer for regulating a pretilt angle of liquid crystal molecules and/or tilt directions at a time of driving. One of the substrates has a color filter layer formed on a side of the one substrate. A plurality of stripe-like electrode patterns are provided on the color filter layer. The patterns are periodically arranged so that when polymerizable components mixed in the liquid crystal layer are polymerized to form the polymer layer while a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer between the electrode patterns and a second electrode on the other substrate, liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are aligned in the extending directions of stripe-like electrode patterns.

Abstract: A grafted polymer and its use in polymer/liquid crystal composite films, and more particularly in PDLC films, is disclosed. The grafted polymer includes (alkyl)acrylic acid or (alkyl)acrylamide moieties. At least one of the moieties is grafted with an alkylphenol or with an alkoxylated alkylphenol.

Abstract: A display device may include a first substrate, a second substrate, reflective plates and a transparent electrode. The first substrate and the second substrate may be facing each other. The reflective plates may be on a surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate. The transparent electrode may be disposed on a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate. Color filters and a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer may further be included in the display device. The color filters may be on the reflective plates, and the PDLC may be between the first substrate and the second substrate. The PDLC layer may include a polymer and liquid crystals dispersed in the polymer.

Abstract: A method for driving a display device includes cumulatively applying a reset pulse of a predetermined level to a first electrode and applying a common voltage to a second electrode opposed to the first electrode to form an initial state of a plurality of cholesteric liquid crystal capsules included in a liquid crystal layer between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: There is provided a diffractive display device having small non-uniformity of luminance within a surface, and a finder device and a camera using the diffractive display device. The diffractive display device includes a pair of substrates 24a, 24b and an optical material layer 26 arranged between the pair of substrates 24a, 24b. First illuminating means 22a for entering light through the side surface of the pair of substrates 24a, 24b and second illuminating means 22b for entering light through the side surface of the pair of substrates 24a, 24b from a direction different from the light from the first illuminating means 22a are arranged. A first portion 30a of the optical material layer 26 diffracts the light from the first illuminating means 22a and emits it from a substrate surface, and a second portion 30b diffracts the light from the second illuminating means 22b and emits it from the substrate surface.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal substrate in which a matrix of reflecting electrodes is formed on a substrate, a transistor is formed corresponding to each reflective electrode and a voltage is applied to the reflective electrode through the transistor. A silicon oxide film having a thickness of 500 to 2,000 angstroms is used as the passivation film and the thickness is set to a value in response to the wavelength of the incident light to maintain a substantially constant reflectance.

Abstract: A polymerizable liquid crystal compound shown by the following formula (I), a polymerizable liquid crystal composition that includes the polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a chiral compound polymerizable with the polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a liquid crystalline polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable liquid crystal compound or the polymerizable liquid crystal composition, and an optical anisotropic article that includes the liquid crystalline polymer. The polymerizable liquid crystal compound shows a liquid crystal phase over a wider temperature range, is chemically stable, can be inexpensively produced, and has a wide selective reflection wavelength band ?? (i.e., a large value ?n).

Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a display element including a pair of first and second substrates which are opposed to each other, and a microcapsule enclosing a display material changed in optical characteristics in response to an electric impulse, the microcapsule being sandwiched between the first and second substrates; and a protective film sealing the display element. In the display device, a first electrode is provided on the surface of the first substrate which faces the second substrate, a second electrode is provided on the surface of the second substrate which faces the first substrate, and a spacer is provided in the space between the periphery of the facing surface of the first substrate and the first electrode.

Abstract: There are provided particles for display media capable of properly controlling change in an amount of charge by heating and an information display panel, by using the particles for display media capable of eliminating a display failure and reduction in contrast ratio.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of forming an array of polymer dispersed liquid crystal cells, to an array formed by such method and to uses of such array.

Abstract: Example embodiment are directed to a reflective display device including a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer between a first substrate and a second substrate, and a mirror reflection plate on the first substrate.

Abstract: A PCLC flake/fluid host suspension that enables dual-frequency, reverse drive reorientation and relaxation of the PCLC flakes is composed of a fluid host that is a mixture of: 94 to 99.5 wt % of a non-aqueous fluid medium having a dielectric constant value ?, where 1<?<7, a conductivity value ?, where 10?9>?>10?7 Siemens per meter (S/m), and a resistivity r, where 107>r>1010 ohm-meters (?-m), and which is optically transparent in a selected wavelength range ??; 0.0025 to 0.25 wt % of an inorganic chloride salt; 0.0475 to 4.75 wt % water; and 0.25 to 2 wt % of an anionic surfactant; and 1 to 5 wt % of PCLC flakes suspended in the fluid host mixture. Various encapsulation forms and methods are disclosed including a Basic test cell, a Microwell, a Microcube, Direct encapsulation (I), Direct encapsulation (II), and Coacervation encapsulation. Applications to display devices are disclosed.

Abstract: There are provided a display that can block light so that a display on an image display device is invisible from a wide range of view angles in an oblique direction, and a view angle control element employed therein. In a narrow view angle state, a view angle control liquid crystal panel (2) prevents light in a predetermined wavelength region that has been incident at a polar angle of ?H or more from being transmitted through a polarizing plate (22) by using a phase difference imparted by a liquid crystal cell (21). In the narrow view angle state, a view angle control liquid crystal panel (3) prevents light that has been incident at a polar angle of ?L or more, among light that has been transmitted through the polarizing plate (22), from being transmitted through a polarizing plate (32) by using a phase difference imparted by a liquid crystal cell (31). Consequently, light forming a polar angle of ?L or more is blocked as a whole, which allows the narrow view angle state to cover a wide range.

Abstract: A liquid crystal compound having a good durability against light, a polymerizable liquid crystal composition and an optically anisotropic material are provided. Further, an optical element having a good durability against light and an optical information writing/reading device employing such an element are provided. The liquid crystal compound is represented by a general formula CH2?CR1—COO-(L)k-E1-E2-(E3)m-R2. E1 is preferably a trans-2,6-decahydronaphthalene group and E2 is preferably a trans-1,4-cyclohexylene group. A phase difference plate 4 produced by employing the compound has a good durability against light, and accordingly, it is possible to achieve an optical head device employing a blue laser as a light source 1 and being suitable for large capacity writing/reading.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to face each other, a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a black matrix provided on the first substrate, where a display region for displaying an image and a frame region around the display region are defined, and in the frame region, the black matrix includes a plurality of light-blocking regions spaced apart from one another.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel including a lower substrate, an upper substrate and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate is provided. The liquid crystal layer includes at least one liquid crystal molecule and a stabilized alignment polymer, which is polymerized by a plurality of photosensitive monomers and formed on at least one of the surface of the upper substrate or the lower substrate. The photosensitive monomer is represented by the following chemical formula: P1-A1-(Z1—RS—Z2-A2)n-P2 Wherein, n?1; “P1” and “P2” are independently a polymerizable group; “A1” and “A2” are independently a aryl group; “Z1” and “Z2” are independently a linking group; and “RS” is straight-chain or branched-chain alkyl having 1 to 6 carbons or a derivative thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a patternable coatable electrically conductive layer comprising a fluid-coated electrically conductive material, wherein the fluid-coated electrically conductive material has sufficient conductivity to induce an electric field strong enough to change the optical state of a light modulating material and a display comprising a substrate, at least one patternable coatable electrically conductive layer comprising a fluid-coated electrically conductive material, wherein said fluid coated electrically conductive material has sufficient conductivity to induce an electric field strong enough to change the optical state of a light modulating material which has a first and a second field-switched stable optical state, and an imaging layer comprising said light modulating material disposed over said at least one patternable fluid-coated electrically conductive layer.

Abstract: A projector has a transmissive spatial light modulator backlit by a collimated illuminator that includes a light source that outputs red, green, blue (RGB) light, and a combiner disposed in light-receiving relation to the light source for mixing or combining the RGB light. The combiner has cavity features associated therewith for outputting collimated light, where such light preferably has a divergent cone angle less than plus or minus fifteen degrees (+/?15°).

Abstract: A polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) display device includes a first substrate having a reflective layer on a surface thereof and a second substrate facing the first substrate. A first electrode and a second electrode may be formed on inner surfaces of the first and second substrates, and a PDLC layer may be between the first substrate and the second substrate. The PDLC layer may include a first liquid crystal layer region including dispersed polymers and liquid crystals, and a second liquid crystal layer region between the first liquid crystal layer region and the second substrate, the second liquid crystal layer region not including polymers.

Abstract: Described herein are the materials, mechanisms and procedures for optimizing various performance parameters of HPDLC optical devices in order to meet differing performance requirements. These optimization tailoring techniques include control and independent optimization of switchable HPDLC optical devices to meet the demanding requirements of anticipated applications for, inter alia, the telecommunications and display industries. These techniques include optimization of diffraction efficiency, i.e., index modulation, polarization dependence control, haze, cosmetic quality, control of response and relaxation time, voltage driving for on and off switching, and material uniformity. This control and independent optimization tailors properties of switchable HPDLC optical devices according to the specific requirements of the application of the switchable HPDLC optical device.

Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to a reflective color display device including a first substrate and a second substrate spaced apart from each other; a plurality of first and second electrodes respectively on the first and second substrates; a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer between the first and second electrodes and including a polymer and liquid crystals in the polymer; and a CMY color filter on the second substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a counter electrode, a pixel array structure, at least one alignment layer and at least one polymer layer is provided. The counter electrode is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the first substrate. The pixel array structure is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the second substrate. The alignment layer is disposed between the counter electrode and the liquid crystal layer and between the pixel array structure and the liquid crystal layer. The polymer layer is disposed between the alignment layer and the liquid crystal layer, and a material of the polymer layer includes polymer monomers and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA). A content of PMMA in the polymer layer is greater than 1 ppm and smaller than 15000 ppm.

Abstract: By providing a pixel electrode layer in a center of a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a first common electrode layer and a second common electrode layer, a structure in which the following two optical elements are stacked can be obtained: a first liquid crystal element including the first common electrode layer, the liquid crystal layer, and the pixel electrode layer; and a second liquid crystal element including the pixel electrode layer, the liquid crystal layer, and the second common electrode layer.

Abstract: A light source portion having laser light sources emitting red light, green light, and blue light and conventionally disposed integrally with the liquid crystal display panel is spatially separated from the liquid crystal display panel. Accordingly, the power supply, the optical system, and the heat source are incorporated into the light source portion and are thereby completely separated from the liquid crystal display panel. A laser beam emitted from the light source portion is guided to the liquid crystal display panel via a fiber. In this manner, it is possible to achieve a liquid crystal display device capable of significantly reducing the liquid crystal display panel in thickness and weight.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided. The method includes the steps stated below. At first, providing an LCD panel including a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The liquid crystal layer includes several photo-sensitive monomers and several liquid crystal molecules. The LCD panel has at least a first pixel and a second pixel. Afterwards, correspondingly driving the first pixel and the second pixel by the first voltage and the second voltage. At last, applying a ultra-violet source onto the LCD panel to enable several photo-sensitive monomers to polymerize several alignment polymers on the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: A new light modulating material using interconnected unidirectionally oriented microdomains of a liquid crystal, dispersed in a stressed polymer structure, is provided. The light modulating material is prepared by dissolving the liquid crystal in an uncured monomer and then curing the monomer so that the polymer forms a well-developed interpenetrating structure of polymer chains or sheets that is uniformly dispersed through the film. When the film is subjected to stress deformation the liquid crystal undergoes a change in its unidirectional orientation. The concentration of the polymer is high enough to hold the shear stress, but is as low as possible to provide the highest switch of the phase retardation when an electric field is applied. The new materials are optically transparent and provide phase modulation of the incident light opposed to the low driving voltage, linear electro-optical response, and absence of hysteresis.

Abstract: A bi-stable chiral splay nematic mode liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a gate line and a data line on an inner surface of the first substrate; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a reflecting plate on the thin film transistor, the reflecting plate including an embossing pattern; a first passivation layer including a flat top surface on the reflecting plate; a first electrode on the first passivation layer; a second passivation layer on the first electrode; at least one second electrode and at least one third electrode on the second passivation layer; a fourth electrode on an inner surface of the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer including bi-stable chiral splay nematic liquid crystal molecules between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: The color filter may include a pixel unit having a plurality of sub-pixels of different colors, wherein the plurality of sub-pixels respectively include flat plate metal layers and a plurality of color PDLC layers on the flat plate metal layers, and the plurality of color PDLC layers each include a polymer, a plurality of liquid crystal drops dispersed in the polymer, and a plurality of color display materials mixed in the liquid crystal drops.

Abstract: A light-regulation membrane easy for installation and maintenance is disclosed to include a PDLC film having two conducting layers prepared by high-reflection black and transparent materials made by means of depositing titanium oxide on a base layer of polyethylene terephthalate by means of spattering deposition and electrically connected to an external power source and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the conducting layers, a surface structure consisting of a hard coating layer and an anti-stain layer on one side of the PDLC film, and an adhesion layer formed the opposite side of PDLC film and releasably adhered to a transparent object. So, the transparency of the light-regulation membrane can be regulated from opaque to clear or reversely while the transmittance of the PDLC film being adjusted by the power, and then any light source passing through the light-regulation membrane can be controlled.

Abstract: A liquid crystal electro-optical device comprises a pair of substrates, at least one of them being light-transmitting, electrodes provided on said substrates, an electro-optical modulating layer being sandwiched by said pair of substrates, and a black coating formed between the electro-optical modulating layer and one of the substrates. The electro-optical modulating layer comprises a dichroic dye and a liquid crystal material embedded in a transparent material which is cured except in a portion situated under the black coating.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymerizable liquid crystal composition that includes a polymerizable reactive homeotropic alignment liquid crystal mixture solution and a primary or secondary amino compound, a homeotropic alignment liquid crystal film using the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. According to the present invention, regardless of the alignment film, a stable homeotropic alignment liquid crystal film may be manufactured.

Abstract: A variable focus liquid crystal lens includes a nematic liquid crystal/monomer mixture having a spatially inhomogenous polymer network structure, and an electrode for applying a substantially uniform voltage to the nematic liquid crystal/monomer mixture. The lens is created within a cell by applying a substantially uniform electric field to the nematic liquid crystal/monomer mixture within the cell, while simultaneously irradiating the nematic liquid crystal/monomer mixture using a laser beam having a shaped intensity distribution, so as to induce formation of a spatially inhomogenous polymer network structure within the cell.

Abstract: A resizable polymer-stabilized, thermotropic liquid crystal device formulation is used in passive or active light-regulating and temperature-regulating films, materials and devices, including construction materials. Implementations of the device may be composed of five basic elements: one or more transparent substrates, a transparent surface treatment, a liquid crystal mixture, a stabilizing polymer, and spacer beads. The polymer-stabilized liquid crystal is coated and cured on at least one substrate. The transparent surface treatment and the stabilizing polymer network are selected to provide phase separation, curing, and adhesion within the LC mixture. The substrate or substrates may be polarizing or nonpolarizing.