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P‐104: Shearing Effects of Stressed Liquid Crystals with Various Liquid Crystal Domain Sizes
Author(s) -
Zhang Guoqiang,
West John L.,
Glushchenko Anatoliy,
Smalyukh Ivan,
Lavrentovich Oleg
Publication year - 2005
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 - 10.1889/1.2036535
Subject(s) - shearing (physics) , liquid crystal , materials science , optical microscope , microscopy , polymer , light scattering , crystal (programming language) , optics , confocal , confocal microscopy , scattering , polarized light microscopy , composite material , scanning electron microscope , optoelectronics , physics , computer science , programming language
Stressed liquid crystals (SLCs) are fast light modulating materials based on polymer/liquid crystal composites. We used polarizing microscopy and fluorescence confocal microscopy to investigate liquid crystal domain sizes and shearing mechanism for SLCs with different domain sizes. We observed the stretch of polymer matrices and the reshaping of liquid crystal domains in SLCs during shearing. In addition, we demonstrated the shearing effects on reducing light scattering and the electro‐optical performances of these samples.