Photoswitching of ferroelectric liquid crystals using chiral thioindigo dopants: The development of a photochemical Switch Hitter

Chemical Record

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 288-295

  Lemieux, Robert P ^a,b,c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirality; Ferroelectric liquid crystal; Photochromism; Thioindigo

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; HOLOGRAPHY; ISOMER; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLARIZATION;

EID: 2142754568     PISSN: 15278999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tcr.10067     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Sage, I.C. In Handbook of Liquid Crystals; D. Demus; J.W. Goodby; G.W. Gray; H.-W. Spiess; V. Vill, Eds. Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 1998; Vol. 1, p 731.
2. Dijon, J. In Liquid Crystals: Applications and Uses; B. Bahadur, Ed. World Scientific: Singapore, 1990; Vol. 1, Chap 13.
3. Goodby, J.W.; Blinc, R.; Clark, N.A.; Lagerwall, S.T.; Osipov, M.A.; Pikin, S.A.; Sakurai, T.; Yoshino, K.; Zeks, B. Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Principles, Properties and Applications; Gordon & Breach: Philadelphia, 1991.
4. Walba, D.M. Science 1995, 270, 250.
5. Lagerwall, S.T. Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, 1999.
6. Goodby, J.W.; Chin, E.; Leslie, T.M.; Geary, J.M.; Patel, J.S. J Am Chem Soc 1986, 108, 4729.
7. Goodby, J.W.; Chin, E. J Am Chem Soc 1986, 108, 4736.
8. Walba, D.M. In Advances in the Synthesis and Reactivity of Solids; T.E. Mallouck, Ed. JAI Press, Ltd.: Greenwich, CT, 1991; Vol. 1, p 173.
9. Clark, N.A.; Lagerwall, S.T. Appl Phys Lett 1980, 36, 899.
10. Moddel, G. In Spatial Light Modulator Technology: Materials, Devices and Applications; U. Efron, Ed. Marcel Dekker: New York, 1995; p 287.
11. Crossland, W.A.; Wilkinson, T.D. In Handbook of Liquid Crystals; D. Demus; J.W. Goodby; G.W. Gray; H.-W. Spiess; V. Vill, Eds. Wiley-VCH: Weinhein, 1998; Vol. 1, p 763.
12. Ikeda, T.; Sasaki, T.; Ichimura, K. Nature 1993, 361, 428.
13. Sasaki, T.; Ikeda, T.; Ichimura, K. J Am Chem Soc 1994, 116, 625.
14. Walton, H.G.; Coles, H.J.; Guillon, D.; Poeti, G. Liq Cryst 1994, 17, 333.
15. Sasaki, T.; Ikeda, T. J Phys Chem. 1995, 99, 13013.
16. Blinov, L.M.; Kozlovsky, M.V.; Nakayama, K.; Ozaki, M.; Yoshino, K. Jpn J Appl Phys 1996, 35, 5405.
17. Negishi, M.; Tsutsumi, O.; Ikeda, T.; Hiyama, T.; Kawamura, J.; Aizawa, M.; Takehara, S. Chem Lett 1996, 319.
18. Oge, T.; Zentel, R. Macromol Chem Phys 1996, 197, 1805.
19. Langhoff, A.; Giesselmann, F. Ferroelectrics 2000, 244, 283.
20. Komitov, L.; Tsutsumi, O.; Ruslim, C.; Ikeda, T.; Ichimura, K.; Yoshino, K. J Appl Phys 2001, 89, 7745.
21. Siemensmeyer, K.; Stegemeyer, H. Chem Phys Lett 1988, 148, 409.
22. Walba, D.M.; Ros, M.B.; Clark, N.A.; Shao, R.; Johnson, K.M.; Robinson, M.G.; Liu, J.Y.; Doroski, D. Mol Cryst Liq Cryst 1991, 198, 51.
23. Dinescu, L.; Lemieux, R.P. J Am Chem Soc 1997, 119, 8111.
24. Dinescu, L.; Maly, K.E.; Lemieux, R.P. J Mater Chem 1999, 9, 1679.
25. Dinescu, L.; Lemieux, R.P. Liq Cryst 1996, 20, 741.
26. Maly, K.E.; Wu, G.; Lemieux, R.P. Liq Cryst 2001, 28, 457.
27. Vlahakis, J.Z. Ph.D. Thesis, Queen's University, 2003.
28. Collins-Gold, L.; Möbius, D.; Whitten, D.G. Langmuir 1986, 2, 191.
29. Dinescu, L.; Lemieux, R.P. Adv Mater 1999, 11, 42.
30. Vlahakis, J.Z.; Wand, M.D.; Lemieux, R.P. J Am Chem Soc 2003, 125, 6862.
31. Cheon, K.S.; Selinger, J.V.; Green, M.M. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2000, 39, 1482.