Title

High birefringence and low viscosity negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystals

Authors

Authors

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

Comments

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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

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678290802624381

Language

English

First Page

1401

Last Page

1408

WOS Identifier

WOS:000261739300009

ISSN

0267-8292

Recommended Citation

"High birefringence and low viscosity negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystals" (2008). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 354.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/354