Abstract

The technique, nanoparticles-induced vertical alignment (NIVA), was applied to fabricate a guest-host liquid crystal display (GH-LCD) without conventional alignment layers. The GH-LCD produced by NIVA exhibited a high reflectance of $\sim 59\%$ in the voltage-off state and a low threshold voltage of $\sim 2.1{\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{rms}}$. NIVA is very suitable to be applied for fabricating a plastic LCD requiring a low temperature process, and a flexible timepiece by using NIVA was demonstrated.

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