A Polarizer-Free Electro-Optical Switch Using Dye-Doped Liquid Crystal Gels

We demonstrate a polarizer-free electro-optical switch using dye-doped liquid crystal (LC) gels. The mechanism of dye-doped LC gels mainly involves the combination of polymer scattering and dye absorption. However, the domain size of polymer networks, dye concentration, LC concentration, and fabrica...

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Autores principales: Lin, Yi-Hsin, Lin, Hung-Chun, Yang, Jhih-Ming
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513389/
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma2041662
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description We demonstrate a polarizer-free electro-optical switch using dye-doped liquid crystal (LC) gels. The mechanism of dye-doped LC gels mainly involves the combination of polymer scattering and dye absorption. However, the domain size of polymer networks, dye concentration, LC concentration, and fabrication process can all affect the phase separation process and thus result in dye-doped LC gels with different electro-optical performance. We have studied experimentally the factors which can affect the dye-doped LC gels. The potential applications for dye-doped LC gels are flexible displays and electrically tunable light shutters.
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spelling pubmed-55133892017-07-28 A Polarizer-Free Electro-Optical Switch Using Dye-Doped Liquid Crystal Gels Lin, Yi-Hsin Lin, Hung-Chun Yang, Jhih-Ming Materials (Basel) Article We demonstrate a polarizer-free electro-optical switch using dye-doped liquid crystal (LC) gels. The mechanism of dye-doped LC gels mainly involves the combination of polymer scattering and dye absorption. However, the domain size of polymer networks, dye concentration, LC concentration, and fabrication process can all affect the phase separation process and thus result in dye-doped LC gels with different electro-optical performance. We have studied experimentally the factors which can affect the dye-doped LC gels. The potential applications for dye-doped LC gels are flexible displays and electrically tunable light shutters. Molecular Diversity Preservation International 2009-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5513389/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma2041662 Text en © 2009 by the authors. Licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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title_fullStr A Polarizer-Free Electro-Optical Switch Using Dye-Doped Liquid Crystal Gels
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title_short A Polarizer-Free Electro-Optical Switch Using Dye-Doped Liquid Crystal Gels
title_sort polarizer-free electro-optical switch using dye-doped liquid crystal gels
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513389/
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma2041662
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