液晶电光特性研究

随着近几年液晶显示技术在诸多领域的广泛应用和新技术的推出,人们一直致力于改善液晶器件显示性能的研究。在液晶显示器应用中,电光特性是一个很重要的参数,介绍了采用激光测量的方法获得液晶的电光特性、阈值电压及视角特性。分析了液晶分子在交流电场作用下重新取向后的扭曲特性,测试了不同电压下液晶分子的透光率和扭曲角度,结果表明:该方法是可行的,向列相液晶具有0.92 V较低阈值电压和较为陡峭的电光曲线,水平方向上在-60~+50有较好的视角特性,垂直方向上在-40~+20有较好的视角特性。该结论为偏光器件的设计与制作提供了依据。     

Effective permittivity of liquid crystal nanodispersions and composites with different pore structure

The volume filling fraction dependence of the effective permittivity of the nematic liquid crystal 4-n-pentyl-4’-cyanobiphenyl embedded in different porous membranes and dispersed with aerosil nanoparticles was determined using broadband dielectric spectroscopy in the frequency range from 10⁶ to 10⁹ Hz. The experimental data were analyzed and compared with some existing theories based on the effective medium approximation and their modifications. The obtained effective permittivities as a function of the volume filling fraction lie between the lower limits of the Wiener and Hashin–Shtrikman bounds. The observed shift of the experimental points reflects the changes in the structure of the investigated composites.     

Temperature studies of dielectric permittivity and mass density pretransitional anomalies in binary mixtures

Results of temperature studies of dielectric permittivity and mass density in binary mixtures are presented. The anomaly of dielectric permittivity as a function of temperature in nitrobenzene-n-alkanes binary mixtures has been studied. Molar dielectric permittivity which takes into account the anomaly of dielectric permittivity and the mass density anomaly has been introduced.     

Non-uniformities in polymer/liquid crystal mixtures

We theoretically study interfacial properties between two coexisting phases in mixtures of a flexible polymer and a low-molecular-weight liquid crystal. By numerically solving Euler equations for compositional and orientational order parameter fields, we calculate the order parameter profiles and interfacial tensions for nematic-isotropic and isotropic-isotropic phase equilibria. We find that the order parameter profiles are non-monotonic at some temperatures. The nematic-isotropic interfacial tension increases with decreasing temperature and is approximately proportional to (T - T(NI))(n) at temperatures below the nematic-isotropic transition temperature (T(NI)) of the pure nematogen. The value of the exponent n is strongly affected by the existence of a triple point.     

Non-uniformities in polymer/liquid crystal mixtures

We theoretically model the nucleation of nematic droplets during phase ordering in mixtures of a flexible polymer and a low-molecular-weight liquid crystal. By appealing to classical nucleation theory (CNT), we calculate the energy barrier to nucleation and the size of a critical nucleus. We study the influence of a metastable intermediate phase on the nucleation of the nematic. Below a triple point in the phase diagram, there are two distinct mechanisms for the formation of a nematic nucleus: 1) direct nucleation from the isotropic phase and 2) nucleation via a precursor metastable isotropic phase. We calculate the crossover concentration as a function of temperature, delineating the regions of the phase diagram in which each mechanism prevails. In the latter case, the presence of a hidden metastable isotropic-isotropic binodal may either promote or delay the nucleation of a nematic phase. Received 9 August 2002 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: matuyama@chem.mie-u.ac.jp     

A molecular theory of the dielectric permittivity of a nematic liquid crystal

We present a theory of the dielectric permittivity in which the intermolecular dipole-dipole correlations are treated explicitly. The results for the static permittivity agree with those which have previously been obtained by continuum calculations. The frequency dependence of the permittivity is related to two relaxation times which contain the effects of only short range intermolecular correlations. Approximate relationships are derived between these times and independently measurable properties.     

Measurement of the interlayer elastic constant in a liquid crystal close to the smectic A—nematic transition

Brillouin scattering has been used to obtain first order elastic constants in 8CB. In contrast to earlier measurements the interlayer constant is found to be finite as T approaches the smectic A—nematic transition. These results confirm recent theoretical predictions.     

胆甾相液晶温控旋光色散特性的研究

胆甾相液晶的螺距易受温度和电压的影响,螺距变化时,胆甾相液晶的旋光色散特性发生相应的变化。实验证明:温度对胆甾相液晶旋光色散特性的影响与所对应的波长范围有关,在不同的波长范围内,温度对其旋光色散特性的影响规律不同;温度对胆甾相液晶旋光色散特性的影响还与所测试的波长离该温度下选择反射波带的远近有关,离选择反射波带越近,温度对其旋光色散特性的影响越大。实验表明:温度变化时,胆甾相液晶的旋光色散特性的变化是偏振透射谱移动的一个重要原因。     

Electro-optic characteristics as a function of pretilt angle in the optically compensated splay liquid crystal cell

Optically compensated splay (OCS) mode, where the liquid crystals (LCs) are almost homeotropically aligned with rubbed surfaces at parallel directions and a mid-director orients parallel to the substrate, was known to show a wide-viewing-angle due to self-compensation effect. The device requires a setting voltage and phase transition time in order for LC to have a transition from almost vertical alignment to the splay state. The setting voltage, transition time, and response time of the device as a function of surface pretilt angle were studied. The results indicate that with decreasing surface pretilt angle in the OCS cell, both phase transition time and setting voltage decrease and response time becomes faster.     

表面液晶-垂直腔面发射激光器温度特性的研究

本文利用向列相液晶层作为激光偏振调控单元,涂覆于垂直腔面发射激光器（VCSEL）表面,测量并分析了不同温度下VCSEL正交线偏振光的阈值电流、峰值光功率和I-P特性. 实验结果表明：温度为293 K时,涂覆液晶后激光偏振第一跳变点和第二跳变点之间的电流值ΔI增大了2.2 mA,比无液晶时增大1倍. 温度为313 K、注入电流为3 mA时,两种正交线偏振光的光功率差ΔP由133.6 μW增大到248.8 μW,进一步增加了线偏振光的各向异性. 表面液晶层的引入有效地扩大了VCSEL的正交线偏振态稳定范围和光功率差,为实现液晶VCSEL高温单偏振稳定的设计和器件制备提供了理论和实验基础. 关键词： 垂直腔面发射激光器 向列相液晶 偏振态     

Correlation of magnetic anisotropy with dielectric anisotropy in fluorinated phenyl bicyclohexane liquid crystal

Temperature dependence of magnetic anisotropy of homologous nematic fluorinated phenyl bicyclohexane liquid crystals is measured by a magneto-electric method.The result shows that the diamagnetic property is slightly influenced by the positions and the numbers of fluorine atoms substituted at the phenyl ring.By investigating the correlation of the dielectric anisotropy with the magnetic anisotropy,a novel explanation is proposed for the behaviour of the molecular dipole-dipole dimerization in the polar liquid crystal compounds.     

Blue phase liquid crystal phase transition for cyano compound chiral nematic liquid crystal mixtures with three two-ring core structures and chiral dopant concentrations

Blue phase (BP) temperature range of a chiral nematic liquid crystal (LC) mixture is dependent upon the host nematic LC chemical structure and chiral dopant concentration. In this study, we investigated BP phase transition behaviour and helical twisting power (HTP) using three chiral dopant concentrations of cyano compound chiral nematic LC mixtures incorporating three two-ring core structures in the host nematic LCs. The effect of the host nematic LC core structure, HTP and chiral dopant concentrations were considered on BP temperature ranges, for two types of complete BPI and BPII without isotropic phase (Iso) and two types of coexistence state of BPI+Iso and BPII+Iso.     

Dielectric investigation on some binary mixtures of hockey-stick-shaped liquid crystal and octyloxy-cyanobiphenyl

We report the measurement of temperature-dependent dielectric parameters in some binary liquid crystal mixtures comprising of a hockey-stick-shaped mesogen 4-(3-decyloxyphenyliminomethyl) phenyl-4-decyloxycinnamate (SF7) and calamitic compound 4′-octyloxy-4-cyanobiphenyl (8OCB). All the investigated mixtures possess a large positive dielectric anisotropy (Δε), although a noticeable reduction has been found by increasing the diverse-shaped dopant concentration. Investigation on the pretransitional behavior in the vicinity of isotropic to nematic (I–N) phase transition suggesting a tricritical character for all the studied mixtures. Parameterization of dielectric permittivity close to the nematic to smectic-A (N–Sm-A) phase transition exhibits non-universal values of the critical exponents describing a second-order nature of the transition. Systematic variation of critical exponents against dopant concentration and McMillan ratio reveals a well consistency with those obtained from the high-resolution optical birefringence measurements.     

Nematic-smectic transitions in mixtures - a liquid crystal tricritical point

It is pointed out that a tricritical point analogous to that in He³-He⁴ mixtures should occur in mixtures of liquid crystals with first and second order nematic-smectic transitions.     

Observation of relaxation modes in room temperature ferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures

The dielectric measurements in SmC* and SmA phases of a room temperature ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture FLC-6980 in the cells of different thickness in planer alignment have been carried out in the frequency range 100 Hz to 1 MHz. A relaxation mode (called NRM) whose dielectric increment is less than the Goldstone mode has been observed in the SmC* phase. This mode appears due to the surface effect. Goldstone mode and the soft mode was observable in the vicinity of SmC*-SmA transition temperature (T _C*A). The dielectric parameters of the Goldstone mode, new mode and the soft mode have been studied as a function of frequency and temperature. The calculated values for f_NRM, δε^NRM and distribution parameter α_NRM are found to be 325 kHz, 6 and 0.156 for 5μm thick planer cell at 37°C. It is seen that in the vicinity of theT _C*A, soft mode obeys the Curie-Weiss law given by mean field theory. The results have been compared with materials of large spontaneous polarization.     

Electrooptical Kerr constant and third-order susceptibility measurements in nematic liquid crystals and their mixtures

We report for the first time the determination of the real part of the third order nonlinear susceptibilities ⁽³⁾ (–, , 0, 0) in the isotropic phase of two nematic liquid crystalsp-(ethoxybenzylidine)-p-butylaniline (EBBA) andp-(methoxybenzylidene)-p-butylaniline (MBBA) from electrooptic Kerr effect experiments. The highest value of ⁽³⁾ observed near nematic-to-isotropic transition temperature, at 632.8 nm is found to be 1.067×10^–20 m²V^–2 for EBBA and 6.602×10^–20 m²V^–2 for MBBA.