Liquid crystal photonics: optical switching and image storage using nematic liquid crystals and ferroelectric liquid crystals

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Shishido ◽  
Osamu Tsutsumi ◽  
Akihiko Kanazawa ◽  
Takeshi Shiono ◽  
Tomiki Ikeda
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Optical Switching ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals ◽  
Image Storage

scholarly journals Electro-Optical Switching of Dual-Frequency Nematic Liquid Crystals: Regimes of Thin and Thick Cells

Crystals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olha Melnyk ◽  
Yuriy Garbovskiy ◽  
Dario Bueno-Baques ◽  
Anatoliy Glushchenko
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Optical Switching ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Optical Response ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
Optical Performance ◽  
Dual Frequency ◽  
Crystal Cells ◽  
Cell Thickness

Conventional display applications of liquid crystals utilize thin layers of mesogenic materials, typically less than 10 µm. However, emerging non-display applications will require thicker, i.e., greater than 100 µm, layers of liquid crystals. Although electro-optical performance of relatively thin liquid crystal cells is well-documented, little is known about the properties of thicker liquid crystal layers. In this paper, the electro-optical response of dual-frequency nematic liquid crystals is studied using a broad range (2–200 µm) of the cell thickness. Two regimes of electro-optical switching of dual-frequency nematics are observed and analyzed.

New structure induced by elastic anisotropy in cylindrical nematic liquid crystal

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 4705-4717
Author(s):  
Zhang Qian ◽  
Zhou Xuan ◽  
Zhang Zhidong
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystal ◽  
Elastic Anisotropy ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Gennes Theory

Basing on Landau–de Gennes theory, this study investigated the chiral configurations of nematic liquid crystals confined to cylindrical capillaries with homeotropic anchoring on the cylinder walls. When the elastic anisotropy (L2/L1) is large enough, a new structure results from the convergence of two opposite escape directions of the heterochiral twist and escape radial (TER) configurations. The new defect presents when L2/L1≥7 and disappears when L2/L1<7. The new structure possesses a heterochiral hyperbolic defect at the center and two homochiral radial defects on both sides. The two radial defects show different chiralities.

scholarly journals The concept of biaxial surface potential and polymer aligning layers in electro-optical cells based on helical nanostructures of ferroelectric liquid crystal

2021 ◽  
Vol 2056 (1) ◽  
pp. 012044
Author(s):  
T P Tkachenko ◽  
A A Zhukov ◽  
E P Pozhidaev
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Surface Potential ◽  
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal ◽  
Alignment Quality ◽  
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals ◽  
Helical Pitch

Abstract The paper considers the possibility of controlling the alignment quality of helical nanostructures of ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) within the concept of biaxial surface potential due to variation the FLCs helical pitch p0 and polymer aligning layers structures.

Optically isotropic liquid crystal media formulated by doping star-shaped cyclic oligosiloxane liquid crystal surfactants in twin nematic liquid crystals

Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 3772-3779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Namil Kim ◽  
Dae-Yoon Kim ◽  
Minwook Park ◽  
Yu-Jin Choi ◽  
Soeun Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Isotropic Liquid

The formation of an optically isotropic liquid crystal (LC) medium by doping the star-shaped LC molecular surfactant in a nematic LC medium may allow us to develop new electro-optical LC devices.

Microwatt optical switching and bistability in dyed nematic liquid crystals

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley D. Lloyd ◽  
Chang H. Wang ◽  
Brian S. Wherrett
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Optical Switching ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals

Microphase-Stabilized Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (MSFLC):  Bistable Switching of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal−Coil Diblock Copolymers

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1538-1545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoping Mao ◽  
Jianguo Wang ◽  
Christopher K. Ober ◽  
Martin Brehmer ◽  
Mary Jane O'Rourk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Diblock Copolymers ◽  
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal ◽  
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals ◽  
Bistable Switching

scholarly journals Electrically Controlled Diffraction Grating in Azo Dye-Doped Liquid Crystals

Polymers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuen-Lin Tien ◽  
Rong-Ji Lin ◽  
Chi-Chung Kang ◽  
Bing-Yau Huang ◽  
Chie-Tong Kuo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Azo Dye ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Dielectric Anisotropy ◽  
Linear Effect ◽  
Periodic Distribution ◽  
The Difference

This research applies the non-linear effect of azo dye-doped liquid crystal materials to develop a small, simple, and adjustable beam-splitting component with grating-like electrodes. Due to the dielectric anisotropy and optical birefringence of nematic liquid crystals, the director of the liquid crystal molecules can be reoriented by applying external electric fields, causing a periodic distribution of refractive indices and resulting in a diffraction phenomenon when a linearly polarized light is introduced. The study also discusses the difference in the refractive index (Δn), the concentration of azo dye, and the rising constant depending on the diffraction signals. The experimental results show that first-order diffraction efficiency can reach ~18% with 0.5 wt % azo dye (DR-1) doped in the nematic liquid crystals.

scholarly journals A comparative study of nematic liquid crystals doped with harvested and non-harvested ferroelectric nanoparticles: phase transitions and dielectric properties

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (56) ◽  
pp. 35438-35444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Lin ◽  
A. Daoudi ◽  
F. Dubois ◽  
J.-F. Blach ◽  
J.-F. Henninot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Dielectric Properties ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Dielectric Spectroscopy ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy

Broadband dielectric spectroscopy is used to determine the dielectric properties and phase transitions of the 4-n-octyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl liquid crystal (8CB) doped with harvested and non-harvested ferroelectric nanoparticles.

Orientation, interaction and laser assisted self-assembly of organic single-crystal micro-sheets in a nematic liquid crystal

Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (38) ◽  
pp. 7674-7679 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. V. Rasna ◽  
K. P. Zuhail ◽  
U. V. Ramudu ◽  
R. Chandrasekar ◽  
J. Dontabhaktuni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Single Crystal ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystal ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Directed Assembly ◽  
Orientation Interaction ◽  
Organic Single Crystal

In this paper we report first experimental study on the orientation, interaction and directed-assembly of single crystal micro-sheets in nematic liquid crystals.

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