High birefringence and low viscosity negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystals

    Authors

    S. Gauza; M. Z. Jiao; S. T. Wu; P. Kula; R. Dabrowski;X. Liang

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Liq. Cryst.

    Keywords

    high birefringence; fluorinated terphenyl; liquid crystals; vertical; alignment; response time; PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES; OPTICAL-PROPERTIES; TELEVISION; TEMPERATURE; DISPLAYS; FIELDS; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Crystallography; Materials Science, ; Multidisciplinary

    Abstract

    We have synthesised and evaluated the physical properties of some high birefringence, lateral difluoro-terphenyl compounds and mixtures. These mixtures exhibit a high birefringence (n0.24) in the visible spectral range and a relatively low viscosity. When doped in commercial mixtures, the difluoro-terphenyl compounds enhance the mixture's birefringence while causing almost no penalty to the rotational viscosity. These mixtures are particularly attractive for achieving fast response times in thin-cell liquid crystal displays.

    Journal Title

    Liquid Crystals

    Volume

    35

    Issue/Number

    12

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1401

    Last Page

    1408

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000261739300009

    ISSN

    0267-8292

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