Spontaneous induction of the uniform lying helix alignment in bimesogenic liquid crystals for the flexoelectro-optic effect

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Gardiner, Damian J ^a   Morris, Stephen M ^a   Hands, Philip J W ^a   Castles, Flynn ^a   Qasim, Malik M ^a   Kim, Wook Sung ^b   Choi, Su Seok ^b   Wilkinson, Timothy D ^a   Coles, Harry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LG Display Co Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; COMPLEX PROCESSING; DEVICE TEMPERATURE; ELECTRICAL INDUCTION; FLEXOELECTRO-OPTIC EFFECT; IN-PLANE; IN-PLANE ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; OPTIC AXIS; UNIFORM LYING HELIX;

ALIGNMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84863177609     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3682305     Document Type: Article

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