A low voltage and submillisecond-response polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal（低电压和亚毫秒响应聚合物稳定的蓝相液晶）.pdfVIP

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 102, 141116 (2013) A low voltage and submillisecond-response polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal Yuan Chen,1 Daming Xu,1 Shin-Tson Wu,1,a) Shin-ichi Yamamoto,2 and Yasuhiro Haseba2 1College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA 2JNC Petrochemical Corporation, Ichihara Research Center, Ichihara, Chiba 290-8551, Japan (Received 13 March 2013; accepted 2 April 2013; published online 12 April 2013) We report a polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC) whose Kerr constant is about 2.2 larger than previous record. When filled in a 3.2-lm-thick vertical field switching cell, the on-state voltage is merely 8.4 V (at k ¼ 514 nm) while keeping submillisecond response time and negligible hysteresis (1%) at the room temperature. These results imply that the dawn of BPLC C era for high speed display and photonic devices has finally arrived. V 2013 AIP Publishing LLC [/10.1063/1.4802090] Polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal (PS-BPLC)1–5 Gerber’s model, Kerr constant is governed by the birefrin- exhibits three distinctive features: (1) self-assembly process so gence (Dn), dielectric anisotropy (De), average elastic con- that no surfactant (e.g., rubbed polyimide layer) is needed stant (k), and pitch length (p ) of the chiral LC host as23 to generate uniform molecular alignment, (2) nanoscale (100 nm) double-twist cylinder diameter and short coher- K Dn De p 2 =k : (1) ence length, which leads to microsecond response time,6,7 and