Bistable chiral tilted-homeotropic nematic liquid crystal cells
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Jy-Shan Hsu; Shu-Hsia Chen; Bau-Jy Liang
- Source
- Applied Physics Letters. 85:5511-5513
- Subject
- Materials science
Liquid-crystal display
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Condensed matter physics
Biaxial nematic
Bistability
business.industry
Homeotropic alignment
Quantitative Biology::Cell Behavior
law.invention
Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter
Optics
Liquid crystal
law
Anisotropy
Chirality (chemistry)
business
Backflow
- Language
- ISSN
- 1077-3118
0003-6951
A bistable chiral tilted-homeotropic nematic cell which uses dual-frequency liquid crystal is demonstrated. This cell can be switched between the tilted homeotropic state and the twisted state. The switching mechanisms are achieved by the backflow effect together with the anisotropic properties of the dual-frequency liquid crystal material. The experimental results of this bistable cell are described explicitly.