| abstract |
A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first carrier; a second carrier; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second carriers; a first orientation layer on the first support and a second orientation layer on the second support, the first and second alignment layers each containing a photosensitive material for co-aligning the liquid crystal layer, the photosensitive material being a polysiloxane cinnamate of the following formula (I) or (II) includes: where in formulas (I) and (II) Z is OH, CH 3 or a mixture of OH and CH 3 , m is 10-100; l is 1-11; L is 0 or 1; K is 0 or 1 and X, X 1 , X 2 and Y are each independently H, F, Cl, CN, CF 3 , OCF 3 , C n H 2n + 1 or OC n H 2n + 1 , where n is 1-10. |