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Electro‐optic investigations of holographically formed 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 -
journal of the society for information display
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1938-3657
pISSN - 1071-0922
DOI - 10.1889/1.1985297
Subject(s) - monomer , materials science , polymer , reflection (computer programming) , yield (engineering) , chemical engineering , optoelectronics , polymer chemistry , computer science , composite material , engineering , programming language
— We investigated 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 an effective functionality of ∼4.5 SEM studies, allowing us to correlate these results to polymer morphology.