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LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 599-602Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0267829031000097466
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Two 3 mm thick microscope glass plates, having one face plus their two long edges coated by a thick metallic film, are spaced 75 mum apart by mylar spacers. Because of the metallic coatings on the inner faces the structure acts as a single metallic slit. The space between the two coated plates is filled with aligned nematic liquid crystal (E7, Merck/BDH) and the cell is inserted in an absorber aperture. This single metallic slit geometry supports resonant modes when microwaves are incident with their polarization (E-field) perpendicular to the slit. The structure gives a set of Fabry-Perot-like resonant transmission frequencies. These frequencies move when a voltage is applied between the two plates, the liquid crystal being first aligned homogeneously, then realigning homeotropically with the applied field. By minotoring these changes a fast and easy to use procedure for determining the permittivity and its anisotropy for nematic liquid crystals in the microwave region has been developed. The parameters determined for E7 are epsilon(e) = 3.17 (n(e) = 1.78 +/- 0.01) and epsilon(o) = 2.72 (n(o) = 1.65 +/- 0.01), (Deltan approximate to 0.13) in the 40.0-60.0 GHz region.
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