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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4865558
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- Royal Society
- German Research Council [DFG Lo 1922/1-1]
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Electro-optic switching in short-pitch polymer stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystals was studied and the relative contributions of flexoelectric and dielectric coupling were investigated: polymer stabilization was found to effectively suppress unwanted textural transitions of the chiral nematic liquid crystal and thereby enhance the electro-optical performance (high optical contrast for visible light, a near ideal optical hysteresis, fast electro-optic response). Test cells were studied that possessed interdigitated electrodes to electrically address the liquid crystal. Based on simulations, a well-fitted phenomenological description of the electro-optic response was derived considering both flexoelectro-optic and Kerr-effect based electro-optic response. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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