ALCOM Center Patents
Resulting from Full or Partial NSF Support

NSF supported research at the Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM) has resulted in 25 patents and 13 patent applications.

Date	Number	Title	Inventors
10/5/93	5,251,048	Method and Apparatus for Electronic Switching of a Reflective Color Display	Doane, Yang,
11/23/93	5,264,950	Light Modulating Device with Polarizer and Liquid Crystal Interspersed as Spherical or Randomly Distorted Droplets in Isotropic Polymer	West, Carrell
5/24/94	5,315,419	Method of Producing a Homogeneously Aligned Chiral Smectic C Liquid Crystal Having Homeotropic Alignment Layers	Saupe, Jakli
6/14/94	5,321,533	Polymer Dispersed Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid Crystal	Kumar
11/29/94	5,368,770	Method of Preparing Thin Liquid Crystal Films	Saupe, Jakli
12/19/95	5,477,358	Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystal Display with Homeotropic Alignment and Negative Dielectric Anisotropy	Rosenblatt, Fisch, Crandall, Petschek
1/24/95	5,384,067	Grey Scale Liquid Crystal Material	Doane, Yang
8/1/95	5,437,811	Liquid Crystaline Light Modulating Device and Material	Doane, Yang, Chien
9/26/95	5,453,863	Multistable Chiral Nematic Displays	West, Yang
6/25/96	5,530,566	Polymer Dispersed Ferroelectric Smectic Liquid Crystal Formed By Inducing a Force During Phase Separation	Kumar
8/6/96	5,543,950	Liquid Crystalline Electrooptical Device	Lavrentovich, Nazarenko
12/3/96	5,580,950	Negative Birefringent Rigid-Rod Polymer Films	Harris, Cheng
2/11/97	5,602,662	Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Devices	Rosenblatt, Crandall, Petschek, Fisch
6/10/97	5,638,201	Optically Active Diffractive Device	Johnson, Bos, Chen, Vithana, Glenn, Holton, Smith
9/16/97	5,668,614	Pixelized Liquid Crystal Display Materials and Method	Doane, Chien
11/25/97	5,691,795	Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystalline Light Modulating Device & Material	Doane, Yang, Chien
12/9/97	5,695,682	Liquid Crystalline Light Modulating Device and Material DIV	Doane, Yang, Chien
6/18/98	5,766,694	Method for Forming Uniformly-Spaced Plastic Substrate Liquid Crystal Displays	West, Bos
10/20/98	5,825,448	Reflective Optically Active Diffractive Device	Bos, Chen, Johnson, Glenn, Holton, Smith
11/3/98	5,831,700	Polymer Stabilized Four Domain Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Display	Li, Bos, Chen
12/8/98	5,847,798	Polymer Stabilized Black-White Cholesteric Reflective Display	Yang, Ma
3/2/99	5,877,826	Dual Frequency Switchable Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Light Shutter and Driving Waveform	Yang, Xu
5/18/99	5,905,554	Non-birefringence Optical Adhesives and Films	Kyu
7/27/99	5,929,960	Method for Forming LCD Cell Walls Using a Patterned Electric Field	West, Rouberol, Ji, Francl
11/16/99	5,986,734	Organic Polymer O-Plate Compensator for Improved Gray Scale Performance in Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays	Winker, Ryang, Warren, Rosenblatt, Li, Chung
12/15/99	6,104,448	Pressure Sensitive Liquid Crystalline Light Modulating Device and Material	Doane, Yang, Chien
5/9/00	6,061,107	Bistable Polymer Dispersed Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Displays	Yang, Lu, Doane