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15.4: Optical Rewritable Liquid Crystal Displays without Front Polarizer
Author(s) -
Meng Cui Ling,
Tseng Man Chun,
Tang Shu Tuen,
Kwok Hoi Sing
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
sid symposium digest of technical papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2168-0159
pISSN - 0097-966X
DOI - 10.1002/sdtp.12668
Subject(s) - polarizer , homeotropic alignment , liquid crystal , planar , materials science , liquid crystal display , optoelectronics , optics , computer science , birefringence , physics , computer graphics (images)
A front polarizer‐free optically rewritable (ORW) liquid crystal displays (LCDs) has been made via a hybrid alignment configuration with dye‐doped LCs. The hybrid structure consists of one optically active planar and one optically passive homeotropic alignment layer. The rewritability of the device is achieved by photo‐ reorienting the azo dye molecules in the active planar alignment layer. The dye doped in LCs function as a polarizer by following the LCs alignment via a guest‐host effect so that the front polarizer can be eliminated. This makes the device more compact and easier to operate for image erasing and rewriting. The image rewriting time only requires ~9.0s, which is determined by the exposure energy and LC parameters. The hybrid‐mode dye‐doped optically rewritable (DDORW) LCD devices could find applications in E‐paper, transparent display and various photonics devices.