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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 103, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4817724
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- DOE [DE-FG0206ER 46331]
- NSF [DMR 1121288]
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We report on fast electro-optic switching (response time 0.1 ms) of a blue-phase-polymer templated nematic with a broad-temperature range of thermodynamic stability and hysteresis-free performance. The nematic fills a polymer template that imposes a periodic structure with cubic symmetry and submicron period. In the field-free state, the nematic in polymer template is optically isotropic. An applied electric field causes non-zero optical retardance. The approach thus combines beneficial structural and optical features of the blue phase (cubic structure with submicron periodicity) and superior thermodynamic stability and electro-optic switching ability of the nematic filler. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
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