Room-temperature switching behavior of ferroelectric liquid crystals in thin cells
- 15 December 1985
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 47 (12), 1277-1279
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.96303
Abstract
Ferroelectric liquid crystal confined between glass plates with a conductive coating and an alignment promoting layer is examined for bistability and threshold behavior. Bistability and the presence of a dynamic threshold are established in thin cells around 1–2 μm thick. When 1/(pulse width) is plotted versus the voltage of the pulse required to switch the sample, a linear relationship between these two quantities is observed above about 4 V.Keywords
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