December 7-9, 2011 Crysoptix presents at The 18th International Display Workshops - IDW, Fukuoka, Japan
Oral presentation FMC1-2 entitled “Negative C-plate Coated Compensation Film”: Thin Birefringent Films (TBFs) with negative C-plate retardation function produced by coating technology have been prototyped on glass and TAC substrates. The TBF compensation films demonstrate a wide range of retardation values (up to 500nm). The key concepts of the manufacturing process and characteristics of the compensation films are discussed… (more…)

December 1-3, 2010 Crysoptix presents at IDW '10 - The 17th International Display Workshops, Fukuoka, Japan
Oral presentation FMC1-2 entitled “Negative Dispersion Retarder for 3D TV Applications”: Crysoptix has developed lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) materials for manufacturing coatable LCD retarders. LLC coated on plastic substrates produces a negative dispersion TBF™ retarder that provides an efficient optical compensation of LCD and can be used for 3D LCD applications: circular polarizers for screens and goggles; patterned retarders for stereoscopic imaging… (more…)

November 15, 2010 - new article Lyotropic liquid crystal guest–host material and anisotropic thin films for optical applications is available for download in Liquid Crystals journal. (download...)

May 23-28, 2010 - Crysoptix presents at The 2010 International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition of Society for Information Display (SID 2010), Seattle, Washington, USA

Poster presentation P-137 entitled “Thin Birefringent Film Retarders on Polypropylene Substrate”: Crysoptix thin birefringent film (TBF™) coated onto polypropylene (PP) substrate produces a retarder with strong anomalous spectral dispersion of birefringence, which provides the enhanced LCD optical compensation over the entire visible spectral range…(more...)

April 22, 2010 - Press Release

Crysoptix KK annonced the development of a full range of coatable Thin Birefringent Film (TBF™) retarders for efficient optical compensation of various LCD designs (TN, STN, VA and IPS modes). Crysoptix technology allows to produce low-cost printable retarders with functions of negative A-plate, negative C-plate, positive A-plate, biaxial BA-type and AC-type plate. Only single-layer retarder film is required for high quality compensation (more...)

December 9-11, 2009 - Crysoptix presents at The 16th International Display Workshops (IDW ’09), Miyazaki, Japan

Oral presentation FMC8-4 entitled “Manufacturing of Coatable Guest-Host Retarder for LCD”: Crysoptix developed a guest-host lyotropic liquid crystal material for manufacturing coatable LCD retarders. The biaxial BA-type birefringent films (retarders) contain, as a host component, supramolecules based on Crysoptix sulfonated aromatic compound. We enhanced guest-host system by NZ-factor adjusting agents that allow producing retarders with desired optical and good mechanical properties… (more…)

Poster presentation FMCp-30 entitled “Novel Coatable Negative C-plate Retarder”: We developed a new coatable negative C-plate retarder for efficient optical compensation of VA LCD. The cost effective Thin Birefringent Film (TBF™) technology can be applied to roll-to-roll manufacturing of polarizers by slot-die coating as well as in-cell retarders. The retarder properties and new LCD design are presented… (more…)

Poster presentation FMCp-38L entitled “PVA Polarizers Laminated with PET”: Conventional PET film (+A plate) when coated with Crysoptix Thin Birefringent Film TBFTM retarder can efficiently replace TAC substrate in LCD polarizer. New polarizer design for VA LCD and IPS LCD provides over 3 B USD cost reduction and improves durability … (more…)

May 31 – June 5, 2009
Crysoptix presents at 2009 International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition of Society for Information Display (SID 2009), San Antonio, Texas, USA
Poster presentation P-113 entitled “Materials for Light Efficient LCD”: The way to increase efficiency of modern LCD is to remove the absorbing optical components: color filter and dichroic polarizer. Non-absorbing polarizer together with sub-millisecond fast LC mode working in field-sequential RGB mode are the keys to future LCD… (more…)

March 26, 2009, Tokyo, Japan - Press Release, Information Display, New Products
Crysoptix, a designer and manufacturer of image-enhancing optical films for LCDs, has announced a new, low-cost range of coatable Thin Birefringent Film (TBF) retarders (films that allow viewing of an LCD screen from oblique angles). The new retarders are designed to provide efficient optical compensation for various LCD designs, including TN, STN, VA, and IPS modes… (more…)

January 22, 2009, Tokyo, Japan - Crysoptix KK Awarded Red Herring Top 100 Global Company Crysoptix KK, today announced that it has been awarded as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies. Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies are chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe and Asia Red Herring Top 100 Companies. Winning and finalist companies from the previous three years were eligible for this outstanding award… (more…)

December 5, 2008, Silicon Valley, CA - Red Herring awards Crysoptix KK for the 2008 Red Herring Asia 100. Award recognizes the 100 “most promising” Asian companies driving the future of technology Red Herring today announced that Crysoptix KK was a winner of the Red Herring Asia 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in Asia. The Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout Asia and identified the top 100 out of more than 1,000 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation… (more…)

December 3-5, 2008
Crysoptix presents at The 15th International Display Workshops (IDW ’08), Niigata, Japan

Oral presentation FMC4-3 entitled “Advanced wideband coatable LCD retarder with anomalous dispersion of optical anisotropy”: Crysoptix has introduced BA-type plate coatable retarder as an efficient tool for optical compensation of IPS and VA-LCD modes. Today we demonstrate the improved retarder possessing anomalous dispersion of optical anisotropy. A new method of tuning material properties using dye additives allows significantly suppressing colour shift during the LCD switching… (more…)

Poster presentation FMCp-13 entitled “Single-layer retarder for LCD”: We have developed a full set of coatable thin birefringent film (TBFTM) retarders for LCD. New printable retarders allow efficient optical compensation in VA and IPS LCD modes using a single-layer film. Replacement of conventional stretched polycarbonate retarders with submicron, solution-processed TBF provides substantial cost reduction of LCD optical components… (more…)

October 13-17, 2008 - The 8th International Meeting on Information Display, International Display Manufacturing Conference, and Asia Display 2008 (IMID&IDMC&ASID 2008), Ilsan, Korea

Oral presentation 24–3 entitled “Coatable Retarder Technology for LCD Home TV”: Crysoptix KK has developed low-cost coatable retarder technology. A full range of coatable retardation films with tunable value of biaxiality (NZ factor) has been developed for the first time. Tunable NZ factor allows efficient compensation of modern VA and IPS mode LCD with just single retardation film…(more…)

October 14, 2008 - Red Herring Releases List of 200 Finalists for the "Red Herring 100 Asia" Awards 2008, San Francisco, CA. Red Herring Magazine announced today that Crysoptix KK has been short listed forerunners of the Red Herring 100 Asia 2008 awards. The 100 winners will be announced at the Red Herring 100 Asia event in Hong Kong, on December 2-3, 2008. The 200 finalists are based in 16 countries/regions including China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Australia and Vietnam. The names of the 200 companies short-listed as finalists for the "Red Herring 100 Asia 2008" will be found online at http://herringresearch.com/eventspace/blgtrx_event_home/asia08/index.html…(more…)

October 7, 2008 - Nikkei Business Daily, Liquid crystal film Production Cost Reduced to 1/3, Russian Venture Business; Simple application of chemical compound.
Crysoptix, a Russian chemical venture (Minato Ward, Tokyo; President Pavel Lazarev), has developed technology that reduces the production cost of optical film for liquid crystal display (LCD) to one third of what it used to cost. The technology involves forming a retardation film — the key component — on a glass substrate by the simple application of a liquid chemical compound, making it unnecessary to lay down many layers of film. Its marketing will target LCD-related businesses in Japan…(more…)

May 18–23, 2008 - 2008 International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition of Society for Information Display(SID 2008), Los Angeles, California, USA.
Poster presentation P-183 entitled “Refraction control in optical films for LCD”: We developed a method for manufacturing of coatable Thin Birefringent Films (TBFTM) with control over values of three principal refraction indices. The control of ratios between principal refractive indices is based on varying formulation of the coatable material and conditions of post-treatment of the coated film. NZ factor of the obtained retarders ranges from 0.0 up to 0.8…(more…)

Poster presentation P-179 entitled “Modeling and Prototyping of Optically Compensated VA LCD”: A new double-layer thin retardation film developed by Crysoptix provides an efficient optical compensation of vertically aligned LCD. The advantages of Thin Birefringent Film (TBFTM) technology enable in-cell application of the retarder. The VA LC cell prototyping confirms the optical simulation data…(more…)

December 5-7, 2007 - The 14th International Display Workshops, FMC:  Workshop on FPD Manufacturing, Materials and Components (IDW ’07), Sapporo, Japan.
Oral presentation FMC6–3 entitled “Printable Thin Birefringent Film Retarders for LCD”: Crysoptix, KK. has developed Thin Birefringent Films (TBF™) retarders with negative C-plate and biaxial plate functions for manufacturing via printing technology from liquid self-assembling materials. The new coatable sub-micron retarders exhibit high optical anisotropy, low depolarization, high temperature stability, and environmental durability. The commercialization of TBF™ retarders on-TAC and as in-cell LCD retarders is discussed…(more…)

September 18, 2007 – Crysoptix presents at EURODISPLAY’07: XXVII International Display Research Conference (IDRC’07); XVI International Conference “Advanced Display Technologies” (ADT’07), Moscow, Russia.
Oral presentation S1-4 entitled “Temperature stable on-glass coatable retarders for in-cell LCD applications”: Crysoptix, KK. has developed coatable Thin Birefringent Films (TBFTM) retarders based on molecular engineering of organic materials. The films possess negative C-type and biaxial retardation functions. The TBFTM retarders exhibiting high temperature stability meet the requirements for in-cell application and create new opportunities for quality enhancement and cost reduction of LCDs. Application of internal TBFTM retarders for optical compensation of IPS LCD is considered…(more…)

June 22, 2007 – Dr. Pavel Lazarev presents an overview of Crysoptix technology and coatable birefringent optical films for LCD in the
technical article “Making flat panel TVs cheap and really thin” (SPIE Newsroom, section “Illumination & Displays”).  Coatable birefringent films on glass or plastic can replace absorbing and stretchable polarizers in liquid crystal displays, thus reducing both their cost and thickness…(more...)

May 24, 2007 –  Crysoptix presents at 2007 International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition of Society for Information Display (SID 2007), Long Beach, California, USA.
Oral presentation 51-3 entitled “Thin Coatable Birefringent Films and Their Application to VA and IPS Mode LCDs”: Crysoptix developed a novel approach to manufacturing coatable Thin Birefringence Film (TBF™) retarders based on molecular engineering of organic transparent materials. The advanced approach allows adjusting chemical structure of low molecular weight components with printing deposition  techniques (including roll-to-roll slot die) to produce the coatable sub-micron Thin Birefringent Films (TBF™) with the required three-dimensional refractive index and retardation. We designed a variety of TBF™ with negative A-plate, negative C-plate, and biaxial retardation functions. We have developed new designs of VA and IPS LCD modes based on experimental value of refractive indices for negative C-type and biaxial TBF™ retarders. Numerical simulation and device prototype testing have shown that application of the TBF™ retarders provides efficient optical compensation of LCD working in both VA and IPS modes… (more…)

December 6, 2006 – Crysoptix presents at the 13th International Display Workshops (IDW ’06), Otsu, Japan
Oral presentation FMC2 – 3 entitled "Vertically Aligned LCD Designs Optically Compensated by Thin Birefringence Films":
We developed optical compensation for Vertically Aligned mode LCDs using thin coatable Birefringent films produced by Crysoptix, KK. The new coatable retarder films compensate both the liquid crystal layer and polarizers. The new retarders provide near perfect viewing angle properties in the visible spectral range. We present data of numerical optimization and experimental results for Vertical Alignment mode LCD …(more...)

October 26, 2006 – Press release
Crysoptix, KK. is proud to announce that after extensive R&D efforts it has successfully produced and tested a new type of coatable retarder material suitable for application in LCD manufacturing industry… (more...)

October 4, 2006 – Crysoptix and Kontrakt Ltd. present at the XV International Symposium
“ADVANCED DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES” (ADT-2006), Moscow, Russia.
We presented an oral presentation “Thin crystalline film retarders for LCD”:
We have studied a new class of materials for LCD retarders produced by Cascade crystallization method. Advanced materials comprise the amphiphilic compounds and include salts of carboxylic and sulfonic acids with conjugated aromatic cores, which do not absorb light in visible range of light spectra…
We presented an oral presentation entitled “New transparent birefringent material for interference polarizer fabrication”:
We have developed new clear birefringent material for interference polarizer (I-Polar) fabrication. I-Polar can be used in backlight recycling systems aimed to improve LCD light efficiency and reduce power consumption of the displays. We produced anisotropic films by wet coating of the new material onto a substrate with thickness in the range of 60-90 nm…

August 13, 2006 – Crysoptix presents an invited paper at the Optics & Photonics 2006 (the International Society for Optical Engineering), Advances In Thin-Film Coatings For Optical Applications III.
Invited presentation 6286-10 entitled “Thin Coatable Birefringent Film”:
We developed coatable retarders for visible range of light. The Thin Birefringent Film (TBF™) retarders are based on the newly developed family of water-soluble salts of aromatic polycyclic compounds, which absorb light in the ultra violet region of light spectra…

September 12, 2005 – Intellectual Property Development Agreement signed with Kontrakt Technology ltd.
Crysoptix Limited is proud to announce the signing of the IP development agreement with Kontrakt Technology Limited (KTL) – the company located in London (more...). KTL is the company that provides the management of the IP Portfolio for Crysoptix Limited. Working with the leading Patent Law offices KTL allows Crysoptix to secure the world-wide protection of the intellectual property.

September 12, 2005 – Technology Development Agreement signed with Kontrakt Ltd. Kontrakt Limited Moscow provides a world-quality team and high quality facilities (more...). The team is working on development of new materials for more than 10 years. Kontrakt Ltd. provides the highest quality research for the new materials and among other are specializing in the new materials for the optical films. Kontrakt Ltd. used to work as a research team for Optiva Incorporated – the company that produced a revolutionary breakthrough in the new type of polarizers of Liquid Crystal Displays.