BIREFRINGENCE PATTERNS OF NEMATIC DROPLETS

被引：41

作者：

DING, JD ^{[1
]}

YANG, YL ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] FUDAN UNIV,INST MAT SCI,SHANGHAI 200433,PEOPLES R CHINA

来源：

JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS PART 1-REGULAR PAPERS SHORT NOTES & REVIEW PAPERS | 1992年 / 31卷 / 9A期

关键词：

BIREFRINGENCE PATTERN; GRIDDING METHOD; NEMATIC DROPLET DIRECTOR CONFIGURATION; POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTAL (PDLC);

D O I：

10.1143/JJAP.31.2837

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Birefringence patterns of nematic liquid crystalline droplets are investigated both theoretically and experimentally. Gridding method is developed to calculate optical birefringence patterns of nematic droplets with different director configurations. Series of birefringence patterns of the four typical nematic droplets (radial, bipolar, axial and equatorial) with different orientations of droplets' axes are obtained. By comparing experimental polarizing photographs with theoretical birefringence patterns, the authors find out that only bipolar configuration represents the self-organized structure of nematic droplets in our epoxy-based polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC). It is also pointed out that the very gridding method can be easily extended to deal with other complicated anisotropic entities.

引用

页码：2837 / 2845

页数：9

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