Magnetic field alignment of liquid crystals for fast display applications

被引：36

作者：

Boamfa, MI ^{[1
]}

Lazarenko, SV ^{[1
]}

Vermolen, ECM ^{[1
]}

Kirilyuk, A ^{[1
]}

Rasing, T ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Nijmegen, NSRIM Inst, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands

来源：

ADVANCED MATERIALS | 2005年 / 17卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1002/adma.200400954

中图分类号：

O6 [化学];

学科分类号：

0703 ;

摘要：

A clean, contact-free method for liquid-crystal alignment using magnetic fields is reported. The method is simple and very robust, with a significantly smaller number of processing steps required than other existing methods. The electro-optical response of these magnetically aligned cells is about ten times faster than that of traditional rubbed liquid-crystal cells, with on and off switching times tau of 0.3 ms and 2.3 ms, respectively (see Figure).

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页码：610 / +

页数：6

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