The Sevtchenko Institute is part of the University of Belarus. It is a research arm of the university and interacts with the academic departments, such as physics and chemistry. An organizational chart showing where students and faculty in the academic departments work in the Sevtchenko Institute is shown in Figure Sevtchenko.2 . The institute also has a research staff. Under the direction of Dr. Vladimir Bezborodov, this is a nicely integrated program that incorporates aspects from innovative synthesis to the formulation of useful mixtures for displays.
Wide temperature range nematic materials with very large dielectric anisotropies.
These materials are of high interest in the display community, and have been licensed internationally by chemical suppliers of liquid crystal display materials. The materials have a usually high dielectric constant that is very important for MIM technology because of the high capacitance of the MIM circuit. The basic structure is given in Figure Sevtchenko.3 . High resistivity nematic TN materials for active matrix substrates. These are materials with resistivities as high as 1,014 ohm cm.