Chiral Electo-Optic Modulations in Liquid Crystalline Phases of Bent-Shaped Molecules

카이랄 바나나액정에서의 전광변조 실험

  • Araoka, Fumito (Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology) ;
  • Kim, Ah-Young (Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Park, Byoung-Choo (Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Wu, J.W. (Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University) ;
  • Takezoe, Hideo (Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  • Published : 2001.02.01

Abstract

Ferro/antiferroelectricty of liquid crystalline phase of bent-core molecules has attracted great attention since the first discovery of antiferroelectric switching in achiral bent-shaped molecules by Watanabe et at. in 1996. This materials show interesting properties usually observed in chiral system, for example, chiral textures, ferro/antiferrroelectricity, strong SHG activity and linear optical activity. (omitted)

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