Efficiency of liquid-crystal light valves as polarization rotators

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Collings ◽  
Wei Xue ◽  
Giancarlo Pedrini
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Polarization Rotators

scholarly journals Polarization rotators fabricated by thermally-switched liquid crystal alignments based on rubbed poly(N-vinyl carbazole) films

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 7553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Di Chen ◽  
Ko-Ting Cheng ◽  
Cheng-Kai Liu ◽  
Andy Ying-Guey Fuh
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Polarization Rotators

Linear polarization rotators based on dye-doped liquid crystal cells

2010 ◽  
Vol 96 (19) ◽  
pp. 191103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Yi Huang ◽  
Hong-Yi Tsai ◽  
Yi-Hong Wang ◽  
Chong-Ming Huang ◽  
Kuang-Yao Lo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Linear Polarization ◽  
Crystal Cells ◽  
Polarization Rotators

Freeze-fracture TEM of the helical smectic A* phase

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 278-279
Author(s):  
K.J. Ihn ◽  
R. Pindak ◽  
J. A. N. Zasadzinski
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Grain Boundaries ◽  
Freeze Fracture ◽  
Smectic Phase ◽  
Layer Spacing ◽  
Screw Dislocations ◽  
Smectic A ◽  
Smectic Phases ◽  
Discrete Amount

A new liquid crystal (called the smectic-A* phase) that combines cholesteric twist and smectic layering was a surprise as smectic phases preclude twist distortions. However, the twist grain boundary (TGB) model of Renn and Lubensky predicted a defect-mediated smectic phase that incorporates cholesteric twist by a lattice of screw dislocations. The TGB model for the liquid crystal analog of the Abrikosov phase of superconductors consists of regularly spaced grain boundaries of screw dislocations, parallel to each other within the grain boundary, but rotated by a fixed angle with respect to adjacent grain boundaries. The dislocations divide the layers into blocks which rotate by a discrete amount, Δθ, given by the ratio of the layer spacing, d, to the distance between grain boundaries, lb; Δθ ≈ d/lb (Fig. 1).

Attractive mode force microscopy of chiral liquid crystal surfaces

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-269
Author(s):  
B.D. Terris ◽  
R. J. Twieg ◽  
C. Nguyen ◽  
G. Sigaud ◽  
H. T. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Crystal Surfaces ◽  
Free Surfaces ◽  
Control Range ◽  
Force Microscopy ◽  
Liquid Crystal Films ◽  
Chiral Liquid Crystal ◽  
Crystal Films ◽  
Electrostatic Charging ◽  
And Shifts

We have used a force microscope in the attractive, or noncontact, mode to image a variety of surfaces. In this mode, the microscope tip is oscillated near its resonant frequency and shifts in this frequency due to changes in the surface-tip force gradient are detected. We have used this technique in a variety of applications to polymers, including electrostatic charging, phase separation of ionomer surfaces, and crazing of glassy films.Most recently, we have applied the force microscope to imaging the free surfaces of chiral liquid crystal films. The compounds used (Table 1) have been chosen for their polymorphic variety of fluid mesophases, all of which exist within the temperature control range of our force microscope.

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