Title

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

Authors

Authors

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

Comments

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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

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678290600703916

Language

English

First Page

705

Last Page

710

WOS Identifier

WOS:000239276600010

ISSN

0267-8292

Recommended Citation

"High figure-of-merit nematic mixtures based on totally unsaturated isothiocyanate liquid crystals" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 6154.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/6154