Biaxial nematic phase in a thermotropic liquid-crystalline side-chain polymer

We report on variable-angle deuterium NMR measurements of nematic liquid-crystalline side-chain polymers, where we have found proof of the existence of a biaxial nematic phase in a system with a side-on attachment of the mesogenic group to the polymer backbone. This provides efficient coupling to the polymer backbone and thus stabilizes the as yet elusive biaxial phase. The experimental approach is validated on a uniaxial end-on nematic polymer, and the reliability of the results is investigated in detail using two-dimensional correlation spectra, providing information on director distribution effects.     

Static dielectric pretransitional effects in thermotropic liquid crystals

The paper presents a review of recent results on static dielectric behaviour in vicinity of weakly first order transition from isotropic liquid to a liquid crystalline nematic phase of compounds used in opto-electronic devices. Temperature behaviour of static permittivity and its derivative are interpreted in terms of a basic thermodynamic quantities increment (internal energy, entropy and Helmholtz free energy) induced by a probing electric field.     

On the polarization of chiral main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers

A mechanism of developing a polarization in a chiral main-chain liquid-crystalline polymer by aligning the dipoles of the monomers is explored. It is shown that the polarization of a pure liquid crystal elastomer is zero in equilibrium due to rotation of the director in the elastomer. A constraint or specific non-ideality in the elastomer is required to prevent this relaxation of the director in order to realize a non-zero polarization. Three methods that circumvent this result are explored. We consider the effect of an oscillating shear, the pinning effect of the layers in a smectic-A composed of chiral smectogens and a binary mixture of chiral main chains and non-chiral side chains. Each of these methods is shown to produce a polarization, which is much larger than that produced in a piezoelectric -quartz crystal per unit stress.Received: 26 May 2004, Published online: 3 August 2004PACS: 61.30.Vx Polymer liquid crystals - 77.65.-j Piezoelectricity and electromechanical effects     

基于Fokker-Planck方程的电介质材料短脉冲激光破坏机制分析

基于Pokker-Planck方程,建立一个描述短脉冲激光作用下电介质材料中导带电子能量分布随时间变化的模型,用数值方法计算电子能量分布与电子数密度随时间的演化过程,根据临界等离子体密度准则得到了不同激光脉冲宽度和波长下电介质材料（以SiO2为例）的破坏阈值。结果发现,尽管激光波长通过3种途径对材料破坏阈值的确定产生影响,但三者的共同作用导致在激光波长分别为1 060,800,532 nm时材料破坏阈值随脉宽变化曲线十分接近。讨论了碰撞电离、光致电离两种机制对材料激光破坏分别所起的作用：当激光脉宽大于1 ps时,碰撞电离对材料的破坏起主要作用;当激光脉宽小于1 ps时,光致电离对破坏阈值的影响越来越明显,但是碰撞电离仍然不可忽略,碰撞电离与光致电离同时起重要作用。     

基于Fokker-Planck方程的电介质材料短脉冲激光破坏机制分析

基于Pokker-Planck方程,建立一个描述短脉冲激光作用下电介质材料中导带电子能量分布随时间变化的模型,用数值方法计算电子能量分布与电子数密度随时间的演化过程,根据临界等离子体密度准则得到了不同激光脉冲宽度和波长下电介质材料(以SiO<,2>为例)的破坏阈值.结果发现,尽管激光波长通过3种途径对材料破坏阈值的确定...     

偶氮液晶聚合物薄膜的二维偏振全息记录

利用偏振全息记录的方法在一种含偶氮侧链的液晶聚合物薄膜中写入了二维偏振光栅.实验采用两束正交偏振的532 nm线偏光作为写入光,在样品同一点上分别记录了相互垂直的两个一维偏振光栅,继而对所构成的二维偏振光栅的特性进行了研究.实验结果表明：二维光栅的衍射效率比一维光栅低,其偏振特性是两个一维光栅元特性的叠加;二维光栅衍射效率对入射光偏振态的依赖性和光栅的偏振转换性质来源于材料中线双折射和圆双折射的共同作用. 关键词： 偏振全息 二维光栅 偶氮液晶聚合物     

Molecular dynamics of thermotropic liquid-crystalline polymer: Polydecamethyleneterephthaloyl-bis-4-oxybenzoate using2H NMR spectroscopy

²H NMR spectra of a selectively deuterated liquid crystalline, polydecamethylene-terephthaloyl-bis-4-oxybenzoate, have been investigated in the temperature range from 25 to 100°C. It was found that polymer regions exist with greatly differing molecular mobility. It was shown that the molecular mobility in the polymer depends on its thermal history. The molecular mobility in an aromatic fragment is caused by the vibrational motions of 1,4-phenylene rings with different amplitudes. The fractions of para-phenylene groups undergoing torsional vibrations with high amplitudes increase with temperature and flips of the central phenylene rings of mesogenic triads are observed. The mobility in aliphatic fragments is due to transgauche isomerization and translation motion with the participation of several bonds.     

介质极化的瞬时相位与振幅

求解电子运动的二阶微分方程，在旋转波近似下，介质在外场突然变化时产生的瞬态感应极化与外场同频，但相位总是落后，最大落后为π/2；振幅大小与初态有关，随时间按指数规律衰减，衰减快慢由介质的阻尼系数决定。     

Study of lanthanide liquid-crystalline complexes by Photoacoustic and luminescence spectroscopy

Lanthanide complexes Ln(bta)₃L₂ (Ln³⁺: Eu³⁺, Tb³⁺ and Ho³⁺; bta: benzoyltrifluoroacetonate; L: N-octadecyl-2-hydroxy-4-tetradecyloxybenzal- dimine) are synthesized. Their photoacoustic (PA) spectra are reported and interpreted. In the region of ligand absorption, PA intensity increases for Eu(bta)₃L₂, Tb(bta)₃L₂ and Ho(bta)₃L₂, respectively. It is found that the PA intensity of the ligand bears a relation to the intramolecular energy transfer process. By comparison with luminescence spectra, the energy transfer process and phase transition of lanthanide complexes are studied from two aspects: radiative and nonradiative processes.     

Luminescence quenching of lanthanides in complexes with β-diketones containing different fluorinated radicals

It is shown that luminescence quenching of lanthanide (Ln) ions by water molecules (OH-oscillators) entering the first coordination sphere of a complex decreases as the chain of the fluorinated radical lengthens from CF₃ to C₆F₁₃. The amounts of water molecules in binary and different-ligand Eu complexes with some fluoro derivatives of acetyl acetone are determined. It is established that, unlike OH-oscillators, the elimination of hydrogen oscillations at the central carbon atom by β-diketone deuteration provides the same increase (1.1–1.2 fold) in luminescence intensity in all the investigated Eu complex compounds. A. V. Bogatskii Physicotechnical Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 86, Lyustdorfskaya Read, Odessa, 270080, Ukraine. Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 2, pp. 217–220, March–April, 1997.     

电介质椭球内极化场强方向的研究

导出了椭球体内极化场强方向与外电场方向之间夹角大小的表达式,并对其进行了数值计算,分析认为对于椭球体而言,其体内的极化场强方向并不一定严格和外电场方向相反。     

NMR studies of chloroform@cryptophane-A and chloroform@bis-cryptophane inclusion complexes oriented in thermotropic liquid crystals

Oriented inclusion complexes of chloroform@cryptophane-A and chloroform@bis-cryptophane were prepared using a nematic thermotropic liquid crystal (ZLI 1132), and the alignment and magnetic resonance properties of these host-guest systems were studied via (13)C NMR of the labeled guests. Large (1)H-(13)C dipolar splittings for (13)CHCl(3) guests indicated significantly enhanced (approximately 2-fold) ordering for the trapped vs. free ligands under all conditions studied, with similar ordering observed for the two complexes-despite significant differences in size and motional freedom between the hosts. For each environment, variable-temperature studies permitted the sign and magnitude of the order parameter for chloroform's C-H bond to be independently determined from the (13)C chemical shift anisotropy (CSA) shifts (via the gradient method) and the restored (1)H-(13)C dipolar couplings. In both systems, the results are consistent with overall alignment of the complexes such that the cage principal axis lies roughly perpendicular to the LC director.     

亚波长光栅的偏振闪耀特性

 使用琼斯矩阵的方法推导了连续结构亚波长光栅的衍射方程,给出了光栅衍射效率表达式,对偏振特性与衍射特性进行了研究。发现连续结构亚波长光栅仅存在３个衍射级,总衍射效率为100%,且衍射效率可在衍射级间任意分配,0级的偏振态与入射光的偏振态相同,±1级衍射光偏振态与入射光无关,－1级为左旋圆偏振光,＋1级为右旋圆偏振光。通过设置入射光偏振态与光栅相位延迟等参数,可使光栅具有闪耀特性,据此可用于设计高效偏振光分束器和偏振光开关。     

Influence of the core polarization on the dielectric properties of polyvalent metals

We have measured the dispersion of plasmon excitations in polycrystalline Sn, Pb, Cd and Zn using electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in transmission. These metals show a remarkable deviation of their plasmon behaviour from standard theoretical expectations which can be attributed to the presence of shallow core levels in the energetic neighborhood of the plasmon energy. The position of the plasmon resonance in the long wavelength limit is in line with predictions from model assumptions taking into account the core level polarization effects. We show that not only the plasmon energy in the optical limit but also the plasmon dispersion is altered by the interaction of the charge carrier plasmon and the core level excitations. Received: 15 June 1998 / Revised and Accepted: 9 July 1998     

Detection of lanthanides and actinides in solutions based on laser-induced luminescence and chemiluminescence

This work is devoted to applications of the time-resolved laser- induced luminescence spectroscopy and time-resolved laser-induced chemiluminescence spectroscopy for detection of lanthanides and actinides. The limit of detection (LOD) of some lanthanides and actinides in solutions by the time-resolved laser luminescence spectroscopy is up to 10^?13 mole/liter. Unfortunately, Pu, Np, and some U compounds do not produce luminescence in solutions, but when excited by laser radiation, they can induce chemiluminescence. The characteristics of chemiluminescence induced by excited lanthanide and actinide complexes in solutions are considered. A key problem of chemiluminescence application for lanthanide and actinide detection in solutions is the increase of the detection selectivity. This problem can be solved by using the multistep schemes of chemiluminescence excitation. It is shown that the time-resolved luminescence laser spectroscopy and chemiluminescence laser spectroscopy can be successfully used for detection of lanthanides and actinides in solutions.     

铁电相变中极化与介电性的随机场效应

基于随机场Ising模型描述的有序无序相变中偶极子在电场作用下的反转运动, 研究了有序无序相变过程中电场与极化强度的关系. 认为tanh(x) 的函数关系与位移型二阶铁电相变极化强度随电场变化的实验结果完全相同. 由此得出基本结论: 偶极子的集体转向造成了极化强度的增大并等同于内电场的增加. 通过区分光学模和偶极子对介电隔离率的贡献, 考虑偶极子极化对介电常数复数形式的频率色散关系, 发现从高斯分布的居里温度可以导出二阶铁电相变过程中介电常数与温度和频率的色散关系. 关键词： 铁电相变 极化强度 随机场