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P‐80: Stiffness Measurements of Polymer‐Networked Nematic Liquid Crystal Devices
Author(s) -
Dessaud Nathalie,
Raynes Peter,
Walton Harry
Publication year - 2001
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 - 10.1889/1.1832004
Subject(s) - liquid crystal , polymer , materials science , polymer network , electric field , stiffness , optoelectronics , optics , composite material , physics , quantum mechanics
The electro‐optic properties of polymer networked liquid crystals formed in an electric field show that the polymer network tends to align the liquid crystal molecules in the direction the director had during exposure, with a strength depending on the concentration of the polymer network, and suggest that the polymer network is not distributed uniformly throughout the cell thickness.