Effects of dielectric relaxation in electrooptics of nematic cells

Oleg D. Lavrentovich; Hugh A. Wonderly; Mingxia Gu; Sergij V. Shiyanovskii

doi:10.1117/12.811035

3 February 2009 Effects of dielectric relaxation in electrooptics of nematic cells

Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Hugh A. Wonderly, Mingxia Gu, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii

Proceedings Volume 7232, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies IV; 723206 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811035
Event: SPIE OPTO: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Recent experimental and theoretical results that link the phenomenon of dielectric relaxation in nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) to their dynamics and fast electro-optical switching are presented. Namely, we illustrate that the dielectric torque acting on the uniaxial nematic liquid crystal depends not only on the present value of the field and the present orientation of the director, but also on the prehistory of these two parameters. The resulting "dielectric memory" effect leads to a spectacular but counter-intuitive effect: director relaxation during the "switch-off" stage can be accelerated if instead of the abrupt vertical back edge, one uses a voltage pulse with a non-instantaneously vanishing back edge. The acceleration effect can be enhanced with a short high voltage pulse at the end of the "switch on" process.

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Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Hugh A. Wonderly, Mingxia Gu, and Sergij V. Shiyanovskii "Effects of dielectric relaxation in electrooptics of nematic cells", Proc. SPIE 7232, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies IV, 723206 (3 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811035

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