High figure-of-merit nematic mixtures based on totally unsaturated isothiocyanate liquid crystals

    Authors

    S. Gauza; C. H. Wen; B. Wu; S. T. Wu; A. Spadlo;R. Dabrowski

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Liq. Cryst.

    Keywords

    HIGH-BIREFRINGENCE; BIPHENYLS; CYANO; GELS; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Crystallography; Materials Science, ; Multidisciplinary

    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 lambda = 1.55 mu m using optical phased arrays are emphasized.

    Journal Title

    Liquid Crystals

    Volume

    33

    Issue/Number

    6

    Publication Date

    1-1-2006

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    705

    Last Page

    710

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000239276600010

    ISSN

    0267-8292

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