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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 105, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4894727
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- Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI, Taiwan)
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Stabilizing a photopolymer-embedded blue phase liquid crystal precursor with linearly polarized UV light is investigated experimentally. When the UV polarization axis is perpendicular to the stripe electrodes of an in-plane-switching cell, anisotropic polymer networks are formed through the linear photo-polymerization process and the electrostriction effect is suppressed. As a result, the measured hysteresis is dramatically reduced from 6.95% to 0.36% and the response time shortened by similar to 2x compared to unpolarized UV exposure. To induce larger anisotropy in polymer networks for mitigating the electrostriction effect, high-intensity linearly polarized UV exposure is preferred. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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