Electric-field-induced texture and phase transformation of liquid-crystal films
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 53 (2), 916-920
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.330560
Abstract
The electric-field-induced liquid-crystal (LC) cholesteric-to-nematic (C-N) phase transformation and its relaxation (N-C) are examined using the anisotropic color absorption properties of a dichroic dye dopant. A tristability is observed. The stable memory associated with the tristability has potential application to display devices. The N-C relaxation characteristics are found to be related to the ratio of LC-film thickness to pitch length (d/p).Keywords
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