Preliminary communication - Optical storage effect in a discotic columnar liquid crystal

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作者
Forget, S [1 ]
Kitzerow, HS [1 ]
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[1] TECH UNIV BERLIN,IWAN N STRANSKI INST,SEKR ER 11,D-10623 BERLIN,GERMANY
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10.1080/026782997207867
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O6 [化学];
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0703 ;
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Exposing a uniformly aligned discotic columnar liquid crystal to an argon ion laser beam results in a reorientation, thereby changing the optical properties of the liquid crystal. We have studied this new optical storage effect for a polymer dispersed metallomesogenic compound which exhibits a columnar phase at room temperature. The writing energy is approximate to 3.5 J cm(-2). The stored information can be erased by heating and subsequent shearing of the sample.
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