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OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 161, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2023.109127
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Metasurface; Liquid crystal; Fast response; Fully electrically driven
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This paper proposes a fully electrically controlled method for reorientation of liquid crystal (LC) molecules and demonstrates its application in simplifying the metasurface preparation and shortening the response time of LC devices at terahertz frequency band. By incorporating interdigitated electrodes and applying different bias voltages, the permittivity of LC material can be dynamically tuned, leading to simplified device structure and improved response compared to traditional LC metasurfaces.
This paper proposes a method for reorientation of the liquid crystal (LC) molecules with a fully electrically controlled method and demonstrates its application in simplifying the metasurface preparation and shortening the response time of LC devices at terahertz frequency band. By incorporating the interdigitated electrodes and applying different bias voltages to adjacent fingers, the permittivity of LC material, which is closely related to the orientation of the molecules, can be dynamically tuned from minimum to maximum. The polyimide (Pi) film has an indispensable role in the initial orientations of the LC molecules in traditional LC metasurfaces. However, the transverse electric field generated by the interdigitated electrodes helps the LC molecules orientation and the Pi film is not required in the design, which greatly simplifies the structure and fabrication process of the device. Meanwhile, the proposed strategy overcomes major shortcomings like complex processing and slow relaxation time brought in by the Pi alignment layer in most of the reported LC devices. The experimental results show that the response of the proposed LC metasurfaces was increased by one order of magnitude compared with tradi-tional LC metasurfaces.
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