Parametric study of the optical storage effect in mixed liquid-crystal systems
- 15 November 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 21 (10), 455-457
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1654216
Abstract
The lifetime τ of the storage effect in mixtures of cholesteric and nematic liquid crystals is found to depend exponentially on the L/P (thickness/pitch) ratio. τ can be changed from 1 min to several days by varying L/P from 2 to 15.Keywords
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