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Liquid Crystals Volume 34, 2007 - Issue 4
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New micro‐structure designs of a wide band reflective polarizer with a pitch gradient

Jiumei Xiao Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, PR China
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Dongyu Zhao Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, PR China
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Hui Cao Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, PR China
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Huai Yang Department of Materials Physics and Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, PR ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 473-477 | Received 28 Aug 2006, Accepted 07 Dec 2006, Published online: 16 May 2007
 
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Abstract

New microstructure designs for fabricating a wide band reflective polarizer (WBRP) from cholesteric liquid crystals are reported. The pitch difference in the WBRP is formed by orienting a single layer consisting of different glassy siloxane cyclic side chain oligomer powders on a heater. The molecular arrangement obtained is frozen by quenching. The experimental results show that various micro‐areas exhibiting different reflection wavelengths and pitch gradients are formed in the WBRP. A WBRP exhibiting the reflection properties of the original cholesteric liquid crystals is fabricated by a novel experimental process and the experimental results are in accordance with the microstructure designs of the WBRP.

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