Materials Aspects for fast switchable NLC/FLC Devices

  • Haase, Wolfgang (Eduard-Zintl-Institute for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry) ;
  • Bezborodov, Vladimir (Eduard-Zintl-Institute for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Institute of Applied Physics Problems, Belarusian State University) ;
  • Lapanik, Valery (Eduard-Zintl-Institute for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Institute of Applied Physics Problems, Belarusian State University) ;
  • Podgornov, Fedor (Eduard-Zintl-Institute for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Nonlinear Optics Laboratory, South Ural State University)
  • Published : 2007.08.27

Abstract

In this review, several aspects for improving the quality of materials parameters of Nematic Liquid Crystals (NLCs) and Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals (FLCs) will be discussed. In particular the decrease of the response time is a need. It will be demonstrated that the materials parameters of NLCs and FLCs can be improved among other ways due to optimization of chemical structures of the NLCs and /or FLCs mixtures, due to doping them with nanomaterials and by using fast elastic relaxation processes.

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