Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, Volume. 40, Issue 1, 187(2025)
Progress and prospect of ultrafast response liquid crystal technology
Fig. 1. 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].
Fig. 2. (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.
Fig. 3. (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.
Fig. 4. 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].
Fig. 5. (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.
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Xiaobo LI, Jingge WANG, Liang WU, Wei HU. Progress and prospect of ultrafast response liquid crystal technology[J]. Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, 2025, 40(1): 187
Category: Ultrafast Response Liquid Crystal
Received: Jun. 27, 2024
Accepted: --
Published Online: Mar. 31, 2025
The Author Email: Wei HU (huwei@nju.edu.cn)