Liquid crystals under the spotlight: light based measurements of electrical and flow properties of liquid crystals
Liquid crystals under the spotlight: light based measurements of electrical and flow properties of liquid crystals
Optical light modulation in photorefractive liquid crystal cells depends strongly on the relative voltage drop across the photoconductive and liquid crystal layers. This quantity can be estimated using the Voltage Transfer Function, a generalization of the standard cross polarized intensity measurements. Another advantage of this new measurement technique is that we can use it to estimate dynamical parameters of the liquid crystal and of the device, either through simple black-box models or using a full Ericksen-Leslie theory. In this latter case we can obtain estimates of some of the viscosities of the liquid crystal.
liquid crystals, photorefractive liquid crystals, optical light modulators, liquid crystal viscosity, liquid crystalcells
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Bennett, Thomas P.
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Proctor, Matthew
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Kaczmarek, Malgosia
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D'Alessandro, Giampaolo
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5 September 2015
Bennett, Thomas P.
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Proctor, Matthew
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Kaczmarek, Malgosia
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D'Alessandro, Giampaolo
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Bennett, Thomas P., Proctor, Matthew, Kaczmarek, Malgosia and D'Alessandro, Giampaolo
(2015)
Liquid crystals under the spotlight: light based measurements of electrical and flow properties of liquid crystals.
Proceedings of SPIE, 9565, .
(doi:10.1117/12.2187086).
Abstract
Optical light modulation in photorefractive liquid crystal cells depends strongly on the relative voltage drop across the photoconductive and liquid crystal layers. This quantity can be estimated using the Voltage Transfer Function, a generalization of the standard cross polarized intensity measurements. Another advantage of this new measurement technique is that we can use it to estimate dynamical parameters of the liquid crystal and of the device, either through simple black-box models or using a full Ericksen-Leslie theory. In this latter case we can obtain estimates of some of the viscosities of the liquid crystal.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 9 August 2015
Published date: 5 September 2015
Keywords:
liquid crystals, photorefractive liquid crystals, optical light modulators, liquid crystal viscosity, liquid crystalcells
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Quantum, Light & Matter Group, Applied Mathematics
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/384925
ISSN: 0277-786X
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