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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 1-REGULAR PAPERS BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS & REVIEW PAPERS
Volume 43, Issue 5A, Pages 2580-2584Publisher
JAPAN SOC APPLIED PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.43.2580
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metal nanoparticle; liquid crystal; FM-LCD; TN-LCD; frequency modulation; fast switching; Maxwell-Wagner theory
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The electrooptic characteristics of a twisted nematic (TN) liquid crystal display (LCD) fabricated by doping Ag nanoparticles protected with NLC, 5CB (K-15, Merck) molecules have been investigated, and it is shown that the device exhibits a unique electrooptic response characteristic that is sensitive to the high-frequency components of the operating voltage together with the conventional root-mean-square voltage response. We call this device frequency modulation (FM) TN-LCD. The FM-TN-LCD is switched by switching the frequency of the operating voltage while its amplitude is kept unchanged. As an example, the frequency switched from 20 Hz to 500 Hz or 50 Hz to 2 kHz, and the switching is performed with the time constant of 21 ms for the rising process and 3 ins for the falling process. This device shows a peculiar response to a burst AC square wave, where the decay time is reduced by several times compared to that of an undoped TN-LCD. The mechanism of the FM-TN-LCD is investigated through the study of its dielectric properties.
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