Effect of surface treatment on molecular reorientation of polymer-stabilized liquid crystals doped with oligothiophene

Optical Reorientation in Dye-doped Liquid Crystals

The nonlinear optical properties of liquid crystals received considerable attention in the past decades and were reviewed by various authors. Harmonic generation in liquid crystalline phases and optical reorientation of nematics are examples of nonlinearities studied in detail. The present paper deals with the latter effect, paying special attention to the influence of absorption on the process...

Extended Kerr effect of polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystals

Electric-field-induced birefringence of a polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal BPLC is investigated. In the low field region, conventional Kerr effect holds. As the electric field increases, the induced birefringence gradually saturates and deviates from Kerr effect. An exponential convergence model, called extended Kerr effect, is proposed to fit the experimental data. Good agreement b...

Electro-Optic Kerr Effect in Polymer-Stabilized Isotropic Liquid Crystals

Electrically switched color with polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystals.

We report an electrical-field switched color device using a polymer-stabilized blue-phase (PSBP) liquid crystal in which the Bragg-reflected color of the blue phase (BP) can be switched to reflect a second color. The phase-separated three-dimensional polymer network transcribes the cubic structure of a BP liquid crystal and restrains the deformation of cubic lattice by the external electric fie...

effect of oral presentation on development of l2 learners grammar

this experimental study has been conducted to test the effect of oral presentation on the development of l2 learners grammar. but this oral presentation is not merely a deductive instruction of grammatical points, in this presentation two hypotheses of krashen (input and low filter hypotheses), stevicks viewpoints on grammar explanation and correction and widdowsons opinion on limited use of l1...