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Photo-controllable electro-optic response of liquid crystalline cells using photo-isomeric molecules
Authors:Jong-Ho Son  Seung-Ho Lee  Seung-Ho Hong  Wang-Cheol Zin
Institution:1. School of Electronic &2. Electrical Engineering , Sungkyunkwan University , Suwon , Korea;3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH , Pohang , Korea;4. Electrical Engineering , Sungkyunkwan University , Suwon , Korea;5. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH , Pohang , Korea
Abstract:A photo-controllable liquid crystal (LC) material was evaluated using a nematic LC mixture with azobenzene. This study aimed to determine the mechanisms that result in variations of material parameters specifically caused by the morphological change of guest molecules. The transition from rod-shaped trans isomers to bent-shaped cis isomers weakened the intermolecular ordering interactions and the decreasing order parameter caused variations of material parameters. The shift of dielectric response cannot be solely explained by the weakened intermolecular interactions but is also significantly influenced by the properties of the guest cis isomer itself. The bend elastic constant was more affected than the splay elastic constant, which implies that the shift of the elastic properties is due to the morphological shape of the cis isomer as well as the decreased molecular ordering. Thus, three different mechanisms are involved in the variations of the material properties: (i) weakened intermolecular ordering interactions, (ii) direct contribution of cis isomers, and (iii) molecular morphological interactions of the cis isomer with the host LCs. It was also demonstrated that the optical properties of twisted nematic (TN) cells can be controlled, and that the stability of the bend state in the optically compensated birefringence (OCB) mode cell can be improved.
Keywords:isomeric molecules  photo-controllable LC parameters  azobenzene  molecular morphology
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