Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, Volume. 40, Issue 1, 187(2025)

Progress and prospect of ultrafast response liquid crystal technology

Xiaobo LI1, Jingge WANG2, Liang WU3, and Wei HU1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 2Heze Vocational College, Heze 274000, China
  • 3Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Shenzhen 518129, China
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    Lattice structures and typical POM textures of BPLC[15]. (a) Schematic arrangement of the double twist cylinders; (b) Body-centered cubic structures, defect mode and typical POM texture of BPⅠ; (c) Sample cubic structures, defect mode and typical POM texture of BPⅡ; (d) Amorphous structure and typical POM texture of BPⅢ; (e) Measured induced birefringence(circles), linear fitting with Kerr effect(blue line)and linear fitting with extend Kerr effect(red line)[16].
    (a) Examples of nematic liquid crystals, chiral dopants, and monomers[19]; (b) Hysteresis loop, black line represents driving to the peak transmittance and red line represents driving to 50% transmittance[20]; (c) Operation voltage, hysteresis and response time of samples[19]; (d) Voltage-transmittance curves and hysteresis values of samples[22]; (e) Hysteresis-repetition times of driving of samples; (f) Response times of samples.
    (a) Molecular structure of DOBAMBC[25]; Schematic structure of smectic C* phase LC and the bookshelf arrangement structure of SSFLC[26]: (b) Smectic C* phase helix structure diagram and the changing regularity of PS; (c) Schematic diagram of the SSFLC director switching by electric field; (d) Directions of the polarizer and analyzer; Electro-optical response of traditional bistable FLC and reverse bistable FLC[27]: (e) Electro-optical response of traditional bistable FLC; (f) Electro-optical response of reverse bistable FLC; (g) Switching time of reverse bistable FLC device under different driving voltages.
    Structure and electric-optic effect of DHFLC[33]. (a) Schematic structure of DHFLC. (b) τon-voltage curves of 1.5 μm liquid crystal cell. The left half (<0.25 V) is DHFLC working mode and the right half is ESHFLC working mode. Insertions: bottom right (>1 V) is the driving voltage waveform; top is the FLC textures under different voltages. (c) Electro-optic response of the DHFLC cell. (d) Schematic structure of ESHFLC. (e) Transmittance-voltage curve of ESHFLC. (f) Schematic structure of RPS-ESHFLC and the temperature dependence of the tilt angle and response time, bottom right is prototypes of the field sequential color display[34].
    (a) Schematic structures of DIO, RM734, RT11165[40-41,44]; (b) Polarized light micrograph of DIO[40]; (c) Frederiks torsional transition in ferroelectric domains with opposite polarity orientations in RM734[42]; (d) Schematic structure of the helical ferroelectric nematic phase[43]; (e) Time dependence of election-optic response under 1 kHz, 6 VPP/μm rectangular field[45]; (f) Ellipsoid of optic tensor. Top is the traditional electric modulation effect, bottom is the EMOP effect[47]; (g) Experimental setup and the schematic of light propagation through the prisms and the cell, the LC director is in the incident plane and parallel to the substrates[48]; (h) Schematic of the 1D helical structure[49]; (i) Electro-optic responses of the CLC transmitted light intensity under different electric fields. E1=62 V/μm, E2=84 V/μm, E3=107 V/μm, E4=128 V/μm, E5=142 V/μm.
    • Table 1. Influence of strong and weak anchoring energy on liquid crystal threshold voltage (Vth), rise time (τr), fall time (τd

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      Table 1. Influence of strong and weak anchoring energy on liquid crystal threshold voltage (Vth), rise time (τr), fall time (τd

      参数强锚定(W = ∞)弱锚定WdK  1
      阈值电压πKiiε0ε12πKiiε0ε121-2KWd
      上升时间γ1ε0εE2-Kiiπ2d2γ1ε0εE2-2Wd
      下降时间γ1d2Kiiπ2γ1d2W
    • Table 2. Electrical response properties and characteristics of various liquid crystal materials

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      Table 2. Electrical response properties and characteristics of various liquid crystal materials

      液晶材料工作电压/V响应时间/μs特点
      BPLC100~200<1 000高驱动电压,大温宽,有迟滞现象
      SSFLC<20<200dP0,具有双稳态、取向困难、抗振能力差、不能实现连续灰度
      DHFLC<10<300dP0E<EU,无迟滞,响应时间不随电压变化,频率越大,响应越快
      ESHFLC<10<100dP0E>EU,无迟滞,高对比度,响应时间不随频率变化,电压越大则响应越快
      EMOP100<1驱动电压高达几百伏,百纳秒响应
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    Category: Ultrafast Response Liquid Crystal

    Received: Jun. 27, 2024

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 31, 2025

    The Author Email: Wei HU (huwei@nju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.37188/CJLCD.2024-0183

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