Fast spatially localised electrooptical mode in vertically aligned nematic LCs with negative dielectric anisotropy

ABSTRACT

Electro-optical switching and the liquid crystal (LC) director distribution are studied in spatially periodic electric field for vertically aligned LC with negative dielectric anisotropy. Two electro-optical switching modes characterised by different switching times are observed. These modes are well distinguished optically by choosing proper geometry for the polarisers axes orientation. One of these modes is significantly faster as compared to the other. The fast switching is explained in terms of localised near-to-surface director reorientation. The 3D-numerical simulation shows very good agreement with the experiment: it points out the existence of the disclination lines and field-stabilised walls responsible for the localised director field switching and its relaxation. Possibilities of enhancing the fast mode for high-speed light modulators are discussed.     

Correlation effects and interaction energy of π-electron shells in cumulene and acetylene molecules

By means of Hartree—Fock energy variance calculations it has been shown that the specific electroncorrelation energy in extended cumulene molecules is approximately 0.3 eV/electron and the specific energy of interaction between -electron shells is 0.1 eV/electron.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 29, No. 6, pp. 514–517, November–December, 1993.     

Response signal in a femtosecond pump-probe experiment in a condensed medium with account of the memory induced by the relaxation medium

For a model molecular system with one vibrational degree of freedom and three electronic states coupled by pump and probe laser pulses in a condensed medium, the response signal in a femtosecond pump-probe experiment is calculated. The potential curves of all three states are described by the Morse potential. Calculations are performed using two qualitatively different approaches to describing the medium-induced relaxation: with memory of the relaxation process and without memory (Markovian approximation). The temporal evolution of the vibrational wave packet in the intermediate electronically excited state is described using a master equation for the density matrix of the molecular system, which is derived within the framework of the Nakajima-Zwanzig formalism. It is demonstrated that, at short delay times, when the proposed approach is applicable, taking into account memory effects can substantially change the form of the pump-probe experiment signal in comparison with the signal calculated in the Markovian approximation.     

The quenching of excited F(2 P 1/2) and Cl(2 P 1/2) atoms by N2(X 1Σ g + ) molecules

The rate constant for the quenching of excited F(² P _1/2) and Cl(² P _1/2) atoms in collisions with N₂ molecules were calculated. The electron interaction matrix between N₂(X ¹Σ _g ⁺ ) and F and Cl atoms in the ² P _j state calculated asymptotically taking into account quadrupole-quadrupole, dispersion, and exchange interactions was used. The dynamic problem of electronic transitions was solved using the modified wave number approximation, the exactly solvable semiclassical exponential nonadiabatic bond model, and the method of phase functions.     

Electron-vibrational energy exchange in collisions of electronically excited N2(A 3Σ u + ) molecules with Zn(X 1 S) atoms

The interaction matrix between the N₂ molecule in the X ¹Σ _g ⁺ and A ³Σ _u ⁺ states and the Zn atom in the ¹ S and ³ P states calculated earlier by the asymptotic method was used to find the rate constants for the electron-vibrational energy exchange N₂(A ³Σ _u ⁺ , v) + Zn(¹ S) → N₂(X ¹Σ ₈ ⁺ , v′) + Zn(³ P). The calculations were performed by the transition state method, and the probabilities of transitions between intersecting electron-vibrational terms of the system in motion along the reaction coordinate were determined by the Landau-Zener equation. The calculated electron excitation transfer constants between N₂(A ³Σ _u ⁺ , v = 1, 0) and Zn(¹ S) over the temperature range 300–900 K were on the order of 10^?11?10^?12 cm³/s.