DYNAMIC SCATTERING IN NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS
- 1 July 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 13 (1), 46-47
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1652453
Abstract
A new electro‐optic effect based on the disruptive effects of ion transport through certain classes of nematic liquid crystals is presented. The initially transparent liquid scatters light strongly (appears white) when subjected to fields of 5 × 103 V/cm. Reflective contrast ratios of better than 20:1 with efficiencies of 45% of the standard white have been obtained.Keywords
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- Liquid Crystals in an Electric FieldNature, 1963