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Liquid Crystals Volume 33, 2006 - Issue 6
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High figure‐of‐merit nematic mixtures based on totally unsaturated isothiocyanate liquid crystals

Sebastian Gauza College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
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Chien‐Hui Wen College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
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Benjamin Wu College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
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Shin‐Tson Wu College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816Correspondence[email protected]
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Ania Spadlo Institute of Chemistry, Military University of Technology, 00‐908 Warsaw, Poland
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Roman Dabrowski Institute of Chemistry, Military University of Technology, 00‐908 Warsaw, Poland
Pages 705-710 | Received 23 Aug 2005, Published online: 20 Feb 2007
 
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Abstract

High birefringence and low viscosity isothiocyanate liquid crystal single compounds, and eutectic mixtures based solely on unsaturated rigid core structures, are reported. Extraordinarily high values of figure‐of‐merit were observed at room temperature for the formulated nematic mixtures. Potential applications of such mixtures for laser beam steering at λ = 1.55 µm using optical phased arrays are emphasized.

Acknowledegments

This work is supported by DARPA Bio‐Optics Synthetic Systems program under Contract No. W911NF04C0048, and NATO Programme Security Through Science, Collaborative Linkage Grant No. CBP.EAP.CLG 981323.

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