Colorless molecular dopants for low-operating-voltage nematic liquid crystals

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 428, Issue , 2005, Pages 17-32

  Haddock, Joshua N ^a   Kippelen, Bernard ^a   Mathine, David L ^b   Schmidtke, Johanna ^c   Kumaraswamy, Sriram ^c   Marder, Seth R ^c,d   Kwon, Ohyun ^d   Zojer, Egbert ^d   Brédas, Jean Luc ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorless dopants; Dielectric anisotropy; Nematic liquid crystal; Order parameter; Steric hindrance; Threshold voltage

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; VISCOSITY;

COLORLESS DOPANTS; DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; ORDER PARAMETERS; STERIC HINDRANCE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 18144425577     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/154214090892609     Document Type: Article

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