391
Views
16
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The effects of silica nanoparticles on blue-phase liquid crystals

, , , , , , & show all
Pages 303-309 | Received 05 Mar 2017, Accepted 25 Apr 2017, Published online: 08 May 2017

References

  • Kitzerow HS, Bahr C. Chirality in liquid crystals. New York (NY): Springer; 2001.
  • Rao L, Ge Z, Wu S-T. Viewing angle controllable displays with a blue-phase liquid crystal cell. Opt Express. 2010;18:3143–3148.
  • Lu S-Y, Chien L-C. Electrically switched color with polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystals. Opt Lett. 2010;35:562–564.
  • Li Y, Wu S-T. Polarization independent adaptive microlens with a blue-phase liquid crystal. Opt Express. 2011;19:8045–8050.
  • Kikuchi H, Yokota M, Hisakado Y, et al. Polymer-stabilized liquid crystal blue phases. Nat Mater. 2002;1:64–68.
  • Fan CY, Jau HC, Lin TH, et al. Influence of polymerization temperature on hysteresis and residual birefringence of polymer stabilized blue phase LCs. J Disp Technol. 2011;7:615–618.
  • Ojima M, Noma T, Asagi H, et al. Pinning effect of mixed cellulose ester membrane on appearance of cholesteric blue phases. Appl Phys Express. 2009;2:021502.
  • Cordoyiannis G, Kralj S, Nounesis G, et al. Soft-stiff regime crossover for an aerosil network dispersed in liquid crystals. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2006;73:031707.
  • Kreuzer M, Tschudi T, De Jeu WH, et al. New liquid crystal display with bistability and selective erasure using scattering in filled nematics. Appl Phys Lett. 1993;62:1712.
  • Sikharulidze D. inventor; hewlett-packard development company, L.P., Houston, TX (US), assignee. Bistable nematic liquid crystal display device patent US 7,430,030 B2. 2008.
  • Hsu CJ, Kuo CC, Hsieh CD, et al. Effects of silica nanoparticles on electro-optical properties of polymer-stabilized liquid crystals. Opt Express. 2014;22:18513–18518.
  • Liao SW, Hsieh CT, Kuo CC, et al. Voltage-assisted ion reduction in liquid crystal-silica nanoparticle dispersions. Appl Phys Lett. 2012;101:161906.
  • Chang CW, Huang CY, Song HC. Initially twisted pi cell fabricated using liquid crystal-silica colloidal dispersions. Opt Express. 2011;19:13306.
  • Huang CY, Lai CC, Tseng YH, et al. Silica-nanoparticle-doped nematic display with multistable and dynamic modes. Appl Phys Lett. 2008;92:221908.
  • Ravnik M, Alexander GP, Yeomans JM, et al. Mesoscopic modelling of colloids in chiral nematics. Faraday Discuss. 2010;144:159–169.
  • Rožič B, Tzitzios V, Karatairi E, et al. Theoretical and experimental study of the nanoparticle-driven blue phase stabilisation. Eur Phys J E. 2011;34:17.
  • Ravnik M, Alexander GP, Yeomans JM, et al. Three-dimensional colloidal crystals in liquid crystalline blue phases. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2011;108:5188–5192.
  • Wang L, He W, Xiao X, et al. Hysteresis-free blue phase liquid-crystal-stabilized by ZnS nanoparticles. Small. 2012;8:2189–2193.
  • Lavric M, Cordoyiannis G, Kralj S, et al. Effect of anisotropic MoS2 nanoparticles on the blue phase range of a chiral liquid crystal. Appl Opt. 2013;52:E47–E52.
  • Lavrič M, Tzitzios V, Kralj S, et al. The effect of graphene on liquid-crystalline blue phases. Appl Phys Lett. 2013;103:143116.
  • Yoshida H, Tanaka Y, Kawamoto K, et al. Nanoparticle-stabilized cholesteric blue phases. Appl Phys Express. 2009;2:121501.
  • Karatairi E, Rožič B, Kutnjak Z, et al. Nanoparticle-induced widening of the temperature range of liquid-crystalline blue phases. Phys Rev E. 2010;81:041703.
  • Chien LC, Hwang JY. Fumed metal-oxide gel-dispersed blue-phase liquid crystals and devices thereof. Google Patents; 2013.
  • Chen M, Lin YH, Chen HS, et al. Electrically assisting crystal growth of blue phase liquid crystals. Opt Mater Express. 2014;4:953–959.
  • Johnson D, Flack J, Crooker P. Structure and properties of the cholesteric blue phases. Phys Rev Lett. 1980;45:641–644.
  • Chen HS, Lin YH, Wu CH, et al. Hysteresis-free polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals using thermal recycles. Opt Mater Express. 2012;2:1149–1155.
  • Chigrinov VG, Belyaev VV, Belyaev SV, et al. Instability of cholesteric liquid-crystals in an electric-field. Sov Phys JETP. 1979;50:994–999.
  • Tiribocchi A, Gonnella G, Marenduzzo D, et al. Switching dynamics in cholesteric blue phases. Soft Matter. 2011;7:3295–3306.
  • Rahman MD, Mohd Said S, Balamurugan S. Blue phase liquid crystal: strategies for phase stabilization and device development. Sci Technol Adv Mater. 2015;16:033501.
  • Chen KM, Gauza S, Xianyu H, et al. Submillisecond gray-level response time of a polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal. J Disp Technol. 2010;6:49–51.
  • Yan J, Wu ST. Polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals: a tutorial [Invited]. Opt Mater Express. 2011;1:1527–1535.
  • Gleeson HF, Coles HJ. Dynamic properties of blue-phase mixtures. Liq Cryst. 1989;5:917–926.
  • Elashvili Z, Mkhatvrishvili M, Piliashvili T, et al. Viscosity of nematic-chiral mixtures and their electrooptical characteristics. J Phys Colloq. 1979;40:C3-22-C3-4.
  • Xu D, Peng F, Wu ST. Polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals. In: Chen J, Cranton W, Fihn M, editors. Handbook of visual display technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; 2014. p. 1–14.
  • Saito H, Sawada S, Furukawa K. A nematic liquid crystal composition. Google Patents; 1988.
  • Shin HK, Seo JH, Yoon TH, et al. Effects of pentacene on the properties of negative anisotropy nematic liquid crystal in vertical alignment cell. Jpn J Appl Phys. 2009;48:111502.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.