• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.771-777
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• 2014

In this paper, we study ferroelectric configurations of liquid crystals by nonlocal interaction energy associated with the polarization.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.571-588
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• 2010

We introduce the Landau-de Gennes model in order to understand molecular structures in ferroelectric liquid crystals. We investigate equilibrium configurations of the governing energy functional by means of bifurcation analysis. In particular, we obtain periodic solutions of the functional, which is a signature of a rich variety of applications of ferroelectric materials.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.129-134
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• 2011

The universal current reversal method is used for the simultaneous measurement of response time (${\tau}$), azimuthal angle (${\varphi}_o$), spontaneous polarization ($P_S$), and rotational viscosity (${\gamma}_{\varphi}$) of two ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs). The application of AC field in FLCs results in reorientational current, which is further analyzed to obtain various parameters. The variation in the parameters with temperature follows the typical trend predicted by the theory. The theoretical curve fits well into the experimental data. Its comparison with traditional current reversal method is confirmed to address certain limitations of that method.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.503-511
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• 2014

In this paper, we investigate the role of nonlocal interaction energy on nucleations of periodic solutions in a one-dimensional problem arising in smectic liquid crystals.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.31-36
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• 2012

Ferroelectric liquid crystal parameters, spontaneous polarization, and transition temperature were studied as a function of cell thickness. These parameters were found to increase with increasing cell thickness, but an exception was observed for the transition temperature in the case of a thin cell. A simple Landau model is presented to interpret the theoretical and experimental observations. The anomalous behavior is attributed to the electroclinic effect and is explained using the Landau model.

• Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.193-197
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• 2018

In this paper, we consider a simplified energy functional for ferroelectric liquid crystals. With a special ansatz, we study existence of local minimizer with a certain symmetry.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.287-288
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• 2004

We report on the development of ferronematic liquid crystals, new materials that consist of a dilute suspension of ferroelectric particles in a nematic liquid crystal host. The particles share their ferroelectric properties with the nematic liquid crystal and impose a spontaneous dielectric polarization of about 10 nC/$cm^2$ to the entire medium, typical for many ferroelectric liquid crystals. As expected, these new materials have enhanced dielectric anisotropy and are sensitive to the sign of an applied electric field. The potential of their use in a number of devices are discussed.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.spc8
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• pp.3057-3062
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• 2011

We have synthesized and characterized the first cyclic co-oligomeric ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) based on cyclic siloxanes and found that the co-oligomer containing two different mesogenic units exhibits $SmC^*$ mesophase over a wide temperature range from $65^{\circ}C$ to $135^{\circ}C$, much wider than those of the monomer counterparts and the cyclic homo-oligomers. The cyclic co-oligomeric liquid crystal readily filled the display cell and exhibited fast switching times in the range of 4 ms to 6 ms over the entire $SmC^*$ phase. Moreover, the practical absence of layer shrinkage, attributed to de Vries-type transition, shows an additional significant advanage for cyclic co-oligomeric FLCs in LCD applications.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.20-24
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• 2000

We propose on a novel vertical configuration (VC) for a helix-deformed ferroelectric liquid crystal (HDFLC) display that has fast response, high contrast, analog gray scale capability, and wide-viewing characteristics. In contrast to a conventional HDFLC in a planar geometry, smectic layers arrange themselves parallel to the substrates, and thus, extremely uniform alignment of molecules in large area is naturally achieved in our new configuration without additional processes such as the rubbing and/or electric field treatment. Moreover, with a proper design of electrode patterns on the same substrate, multidomain switching is easily realized without employing any complex process of alignment. Our new VC-HDFLC is expected to provide a viable technology to produce a next-generation large area LCD suitable for processing the dynamic image at a video-rate.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.986-989
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• 2007

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.