Electrically induced bandwidth broadening in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals

2011 ◽  
Vol 110 (5) ◽  
pp. 053109 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. T. Tondiglia ◽  
L. V. Natarajan ◽  
C. A. Bailey ◽  
M. M. Duning ◽  
R. L. Sutherland ◽  
...  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (16) ◽  
pp. 6064-6069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitesh Khandelwal ◽  
Michael G. Debije ◽  
Timothy J. White ◽  
Albertus P. H. J. Schenning

A tunable infrared reflector has been fabricated using polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals containing a negative dielectric, anisotropic liquid crystal and a long and flexible ethylene glycol twin crosslinker.


2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 1465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent P. Tondiglia ◽  
Lalgudi V. Natarajan ◽  
Christopher A. Bailey ◽  
Michael E. McConney ◽  
Kyung Min Lee ◽  
...  

ACS Photonics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 1033-1041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung Min Lee ◽  
Vincent P. Tondiglia ◽  
Michael E. McConney ◽  
Lalgudi V. Natarajan ◽  
Timothy J. Bunning ◽  
...  

Crystals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Kyung M. Lee ◽  
Timothy J. Bunning ◽  
Timothy J. White ◽  
Michael E. McConney ◽  
Nicholas P. Godman

We have previously reported that the application of a DC field can adjust the position and/or bandwidth of the selective reflection notch in polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals (PSCLCs). The proposed mechanism of these electro-optic (EO) response is ion-facilitated electromechanical deformation of the polymer stabilizing network. Accordingly, the concentration of ions trapped within the polymer network should considerably influence the EO response of PSCLC. Our prior studies have indicated that photoinitiators can increase ion density in PSCLC by an order of magnitude. Here, we isolate the contribution of ionic impurities associated with liquid crystal monomers (LCMs) by utilizing initiator-less polymerization. PSCLCs prepared with LCM with low ion concentration show bandwidth broadening of the reflection band whereas PSCLCs prepared with LCM with high ion concentration exhibit a red shifting tuning of the reflection band. The extent of the tuning or bandwidth broadening of the CLC reflection band depends on the concentration of LCMs and the chirality of the LCM.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoekyung Kim ◽  
Yo Inoue ◽  
Junji Kobashi ◽  
Yasutaka Maeda ◽  
Hiroyuki Yoshida ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 267 ◽  
pp. 120-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Nemati ◽  
Shiyi Liu ◽  
Alireza Moheghi ◽  
Vincent P. Tondiglia ◽  
Kyung Min Lee ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (20) ◽  
pp. 6698-6702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Hu ◽  
Mei Chen ◽  
Qian Wang ◽  
Lanying Zhang ◽  
Xiaotao Yuan ◽  
...  

Soft Matter ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1256-1261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung Min Lee ◽  
Vincent P. Tondiglia ◽  
Timothy J. White

2002 ◽  
Vol 277 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Laux ◽  
F. Roussel ◽  
J.-M. Buisine

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