Electric field tuning of ferroelectric liquid-crystal microlaser

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna V. Ryzhkova ◽  
Pratibha Ramarao ◽  
Maryam Nikkhou ◽  
Igor Muševič
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Electric Field ◽  
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal

scholarly journals 21Ne and 131Xe NMR study of electric field gradients and multinuclear NMR study of the composition of a ferroelectric liquid crystal

2018 ◽  
Vol 149 (23) ◽  
pp. 234901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna K. Ahola ◽  
Petri Ingman ◽  
Reino Laatikainen ◽  
Jari Sinkkonen ◽  
Jukka Jokisaari
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Electric Field ◽  
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal ◽  
Electric Field Gradients ◽  
Multinuclear Nmr ◽  
Field Gradients ◽  
Nmr Study

scholarly journals ELECTRO-OPTICAL SWITCHING OF THE MAIN OPTICAL AXIS OF A FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL SPIRAL NANOSTRUCTUREIN A PLANAR-ORIENTED DISPLAY CELL

Doklady BGUIR ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
E. P. Pozhidaev ◽  
T. P. Tkachenko ◽  
A. V. Kuznetsov ◽  
I. N. Kompanets
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Electric Field ◽  
Optical Switching ◽  
Optical Axis ◽  
Modulation Frequency ◽  
Light Transmittance ◽  
Weak Electric Field ◽  
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal ◽  
Light Modulation ◽  
Small Pitch

In a known display cell with the nematic liquid crystal (NLC) and interdigital electrodes on one of the glass substrates, the “In-Plane Switching” (IPS) mode is implemented, in which the NLC main optical axis reorients in a plane parallel to substrates, providing the most correct color reproduction at different angles view, up to 178 ° horizontally and vertically. Unfortunately, the creation of interdigital metal electrodes complicates and increases the technological process cost and causes a decrease in image contrast. At the same time, experimental results and calculations based on classical electro-optics of crystals indicate that electrooptical switching in the IPS mode is a natural and intrinsic feature of a conventional (with continuous electrodes) display cell with a planar-oriented layer of the ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC), in which the effect of the deformed (by the electric field) helix FLC nanostructure is realized (DHF effect). In such a cell, the reorientation of the main optical axis under the influence of a weak electric field also occurs in the substrate plane if the FLC has a small pitch (about 100 nm or less) and a large tilt angle of molecules in the layer (about 38 ° or more). The dependences of the FLC cell light transmittance measured in this work, confirmed the achievement of the IPS electro-optical mode in the DHF FLC cell; moreover, the light modulation frequency was 1 kHz. Thus, while maintaining all the advantages of the IPS mode known in NLC, its implementation in FLC allows additionally obtaining technological advantages and multiple increase in modulation frequency.

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