Title

High Performance Room Temperature Nematic Liquid Crystals Based on Laterally Fluorinated Isothiocyanato-Tolanes

Authors

Authors

S. Gauza; S. T. Wu; A. Spadlo;R. Dabrowski

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Disp. Technol.

Keywords

Fast response time; high birefringence; high figure-of-merit; low; viscosity; nematic liquid crystals; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Physics, Applied

Abstract

High birefringence and low viscosity isothiocyanates liquid crystal single compounds and eutectic mixtures, based solely on laterally fluorinated aromatic rigid core structures, are reported. Extraordinarily high values of figure-of-merit were observed at room temperature and also elevated temperatures for the nematic mixtures we formulated. Potential applications of such mixtures for laser beam steering at lambda = 1.55 mu m using optical phased arrays are emphasized.

Journal Title

Journal of Display Technology

Volume

2

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

247

Last Page

253

WOS Identifier

WOS:000207089500006

ISSN

1551-319X

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