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Electro‐Optic Investigations of H‐PDLCs: The Effect of Monomer Functionality on Display Performance
Author(s) -
Bowley C. C.,
Fontecchio A. K.,
Crawford G. P.,
Yuan H.
Publication year - 1999
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 - 10.1889/1.1834184
Subject(s) - monomer , materials science , polymer , yield (engineering) , reflection (computer programming) , chemical engineering , composite material , computer science , engineering , programming language
We investigate the effect of monomer functionality on the electro‐optic performance of holographically‐formed polymer dispersed liquid crystals. Oligomers of functionality 2, 3 and 6 are mixed to yield oligomers of intermediate functionality. Reflection efficiency and critical field peaks are reported for effective functionality ∼4.5. SEM studies allow us to correlate these results to polymer morphology.