聚合温度及铁电液晶有序度对单体转化率的影响

采用琉醇和丙烯酸的混合物作为反应单体,利用红外光谱仪检测反应前后单体的C=C双键吸收峰的变化,研究了温度对单体转化率的影响。制备了单体含量为10%的聚合物稳定铁电液晶器件,研究了铁电液晶有序度对单体的影响。实验表明:随着温度的增加单体的转化率增加,随着铁电液晶有序度的增加单体的转化率增加;在铁电液晶中单体的转化率主要受有序度的影响;制备聚合物稳定铁电液晶器件最佳的聚合条件为近晶A相(SmA)下聚合。     

全息聚合物弥散液晶器件电光特性的研究

研究了全息聚合物弥散液晶(HPDLC)器件的电光特性，研究了添加不同表面活性剂对聚合物界面对液晶的锚定能的影响机理，寻求到了低工作电压的实现方法. 分析了聚合物基体与液晶折射率不匹配性对器件对比度的影响，测量了HPDLC器件的响应时间和弛豫时间，得到了平均100μs的快速响应. 关键词： 全息聚合物弥散液晶 电光特性 表面活性剂 对比度 响应时间     

半“V”字形铁电液晶器件的制备

实验研究了N*-Sc*相变时施加直流电压的强度对铁电液晶分子层排列和电光性能的影响,由此筛选了合适的直流电压强度,并研制了可实现连续灰度级的半“V”字形铁电液晶样品.实验说明N*-Sc*相变时施加直流电压强度大有利于获得性能良好的器件.采用N*-Sc*相变施加4V/μm直流电压,制备半“V”字形铁电液晶器件,经测试器件饱和电压为5V,对比度为112.8,上升时间和下降时间分别为622.14 μs和374.7 μs.     

聚合物网络稳定铁电液晶中的条纹织构的研究

对聚合物网络稳定的铁电液晶体系进行了研究.实验表明,在聚合物网络单体聚合过程中施加低频交变电场，在偏光显微镜下观察到均匀的液晶分子排列出现一新的条纹织构.从体系自由能的角度对条纹织构给出合理的解释. 关键词：     

表面活性剂含量对全息聚合物分散液晶光栅电光特性的影响

研究了含表面活性剂Actyflon-G04的全息聚合物分散液晶透射光栅的表面形貌和电光特性,通过理论分析得出驱动电压和膜的锚定能及表面自由能的关系.实验结果表明,在Actyflon-G04含量为4wt%-8wt%时光栅相分离程度高,相界面平滑,聚合物层的致密度增加.光栅的衍射效率达到96%,接近理想值.实现了在提高光栅衍射效率的同时降低驱动电压,使光栅的电光特性得到改善.     

聚合物网络稳定液晶的电光偏振片

制备了一种散射偏振片,它是由非晶态单体形成的聚合物网络、向列液晶和涂有聚酰亚胺的ＩＴＯ玻璃基板组成。聚酰亚胺被反向平行摩擦,液晶分子则沿摩擦方向取向,并被单体形成的网络所稳定。根据聚合物网络液晶的电光特性可知。入射偏振光束被散射或透射相应地取决于其偏振方向平行还是生趣于基板的摩擦方向。平行时,光的散射强度通过电场可被强烈地调节;垂直时,光的透过率很高,几乎不依赖施加的电场。这种偏振器件具有低的驱动     

连续灰度铁电液晶器件制备

采用N*-Sc*序列相铁电液晶,通过控制在N*-Sc*相变时施加电压的频率和幅值,制备了不同分子层排列结构的器件,获得了“V”字形和半“V”字形的电光特性曲线,从而可以实现连续灰度.根据铁电液晶自发偶极矩与电场力矩的相互作用原理,分析了器件形成不同分子层排列结构及呈现“V”字形和半“V”字形电光特性的原因.     

聚合物网络稳定液晶膜的制备与研究

实验发现在液晶中添加少量的预聚物单体,利用光聚合诱导相分离的方法可以形成反型显示模式的聚合物网络稳定液晶膜。该膜在平时呈现透明态,在电场的调节下呈散射态。本文观察了在不同光照时间、不同光强下制得样品的聚合物网络织构,分析了在聚合过程中形成网络的形状、大小与致密程度,并对实验结果进行了相关的讨论。     

表面摩擦处理对全息聚合物分散液晶光栅电光特性的影响

为了提高全息聚合物分散液晶光栅的衍射效率并降低其驱动电压,改善光栅的电光特性,研究了表面平行摩擦取向对全息聚合物分散液晶光栅电光特性的影响.理论分析认为,改善相分离结构和降低液晶微滴之间的有序度差异是优化光栅电光特性的根本所在.由于进行表面取向处理后的液晶和单体之间达到扩散匹配,使得相分离的程度大幅提高,在衍射能力增强的同时驱动电压也实现了大幅下降,而且,表面取向作用也使光栅内的液晶分子均匀排列,降低了液晶微滴之间的有序度差异,从而减少了光栅的散射损失.实验结果表明:进行取向处理后的光栅其衍射效率由传统光 关键词： 全息聚合物分散液晶 衍射效率 驱动电压     

挠曲电效应对向列相液晶盒电光效应的影响

研究挠曲电效应对向列相液晶盒电光效应的影响.通过变分理论得到液晶指向矢满足的微分方程和边界条件,利用差分迭代的方法计算强锚定和弱锚定液晶盒中液晶指向矢的分布情况.借助琼斯矩阵的方法,计算两种液晶盒电光特性曲线.此外,在计算中同时考虑了挠曲电表面和体积效应.     

Integrated Electro-Optic Switches Based on Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Waveguides

Two integrated electro-optic switches based on smectic C * ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) planar waveguides oriented in the bookshelf geometry have been designed and realized. In order to test the first switch, a particular waveguide structure consisting of a three-stage device, having a thin FLC film middle stage and two glass waveguides as other stages, has been designed and realized. The second one is realized by a planar waveguide with a smectic C * ferroelectric liquid crystal overlayer. In this article the design, the realization, and the experimental characterization of electro-optical switches are reported. The electro-optical behavior and the response time of both devices have been studied for different configurations for both TE and TM polarization. Our main aim was to demonstrate the feasibility of an integrated electro-optic device based on a FLC waveguide, and our experimental results provide a number of interesting indications about device optimization and practical applications.     

Electro-optic and dielectric studies of silica nanoparticle doped ferroelectric liquid crystal in SmC* phase

We present the results based on the electro-optic and dielectric properties of silica nanoparticle (SNP) doped ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) in SmC* phase. Switching time, spontaneous polarization and rotational viscosity decreases with increase in the silica concentration. An improvement in switching time after doping the silica nanoparticle is due to enhancement in anchoring energy exist between silica nanoparticle and ferroelectric liquid crystal. We noticed that the dielectric permittivity and dielectric strength decreases with increasing the concentration of silica nanoparticle in SmC* phase. Relaxation frequency increases with increasing the silica concentration and temperature in SmC* and decreases as we approaches towards transition temperature.     

Effect of polymer viscosity on morphological and electro-optic properties of aligned polymer dispersed ferroelectric liquid crystal composite films

A room temperature ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture was dispersed in UV curable polymers of different viscosity in 30:70 wt/wt ratio. These polymer dispersed ferroelectric liquid crystal (PDFLC) composite films were prepared by polymerization induced phase separation technique. It was found that the polymer viscosity influences the droplet size and the electro-optic properties. The spontaneous polarization of PDFLC decreases with an increase in polymer viscosity. The droplet morphology and electro-optic properties of these materials have been investigated in an aligned configuration.     

Dynamics of domain-wall motion in ferroelectric liquid crystals in an electric field

The director reorientation in smectic liquid crystals with ferroelectric properties has been considered in the case where the interaction of liquid-crystal molecules with the surface leads to a partial unwinding of the helical structure of the liquid crystal and the reorientation occurs as a result of the domain-wall motion. The dependences of the velocity of domain-wall motion on the electric field strength, electric field variation frequency, boundary conditions, spontaneous polarization, and viscosity of the liquid crystal have been determined. It has been demonstrated that an increase in the electric field variation frequency or the polar part of the anchoring energy and the spontaneous polarization of the liquid crystal at a constant field frequency results in an increase of the velocity of domain-wall motion. As a consequence, the time of the electro-optic response of the liquid crystal in weak electric fields (from 0.4 to 2.0 V/μm) decreases by a factor of more than three.     

Experimental design to measure the anchoring energy on substrate surface by using the alternating-current bridge

The anchoring property of the substrate surface of liquid crystal cells plays an important role in display and nondisplay fields. This property directly affects the deformation of liquid crystal molecules to change the phase difference through liquid crystal cells. In this paper, a test method based on the alternating-current bridge is proposed to determine the capacitance of liquid crystal cells and thus measure the anchoring energy of the substrate surface. The anchoring energy can be obtained by comparing the capacitance–voltage curves of twisted nematic liquid crystal cells with different anchoring properties in experimental and theoretical results simulated on the basis of Frank elastic theory. Compared with the other methods to determine the anchoring energy, our proposed method requires a simple treatment of liquid crystal cells and allows easy and high-accuracy measurements, thereby expanding the test ideas on the performance parameters of liquid crystal devices.     

Local measurement of the zenithal anchoring strength

We present an electro-optic method for measuring the zenithal anchoring strength of nematic liquid crystals, based on the determination of the distortion produced by a small electric field. This method yields the zenithal anchoring strength at small applied torques, and remarkably, only needs local measurements (optical path difference versus applied voltage, sample thickness), in contrast to the classical methods that use measurements integrated over the entire sample. We determine the zenithal anchoring strength for two nematic liquid crystals (5 CB and 5 OCB) with positive dielectric anisotropy, onto poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) treated surfaces, that yield planar liquid crystal cells. We find that the anchoring at the PTFE-5 CB interface is strong, with an extrapolation length approximately 30 nm, and independent of temperature far enough from the isotropic transition. We observe a pretransitional weakening of the anchoring strength near the nematic-isotropic transition, due to the reduction of the orientational order parameter at the interface. With 5 OCB, we measure a stronger anchoring, with an extrapolation length approximately 15 nm. This result may be explained by the increase of the van der Waals interactions between the liquid crystal molecules and the surface, due to the presence of the oxygen atom.     

Influence of silica nanoparticles on dielectric spectroscopy and polarization switching responses of novel ferroelectric liquid crystals

Silica (SiO₂) nanoparticles in different wt/wt% ratios were dispersed in a novel room temperature ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture. Dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (50 Hz–1 MHz) and electro-optic responses were investigated. Dielectric permittivity gradually decreases by about 40% up to 1 kHz with increasing SiO₂ concentration in the chiral smectic C phase. However, an increase of up to 1.5% has been observed for all the silica-doped samples above 2 kHz. We noticed an increase in optical transmission with increasing SiO₂ concentration from 0.01 to 0.1 wt/wt%.     

一种新型偶氮染料在扭曲向列相液晶显示取向中的应用

研究了一种新型偶氮材料sy03在光控取向中的应用。将sy03加入聚酰亚胺SE-3310(Nissan)与N,N-二甲基甲酰胺(DMF)的混合溶液中作为90°扭曲向列相液晶显示(Twisted nematic liquid crystal display,TN-LCD)的光取向材料,测量由它作为取向膜的扭曲向列型盒的电光特性与仅用SE-3310取向的扭曲向列型盒电光特性比较,发现sy03偶氮的加入使得扭曲向列型盒的响应时间短到98 ms、阈值电压也降低到1.7 V左右。而且随曝光时间的增加,响应时间和衬比度都有所提高,电光响应曲线也更为陡峭。加热到150℃后,其电光特性并没有明显变化,证明了它良好的热稳定性。最后通过测量偏振紫外吸收光谱,分析得出液晶分子易取向方向与激发光源偏振方向垂直。     

Proposal for a simple integrated optical ion-exchange waveguide polarizer with a liquid crystal overlay

A simple, compact electro-optic polarizer based on an ion-exchanged glass channel waveguide covered with a nematic liquid crystal (LC) is proposed. A full-vectorial beam propagation method is employed to simulate this device for the first time. For the cases of zero and strong LC surface anchoring, the performance of the proposed polarizer under different applied voltages is analyzed numerically. Analysis indicates that surface anchoring of the liquid crystal is a key issue influencing the performance for the proposed optical polarizer device.