Recovery of the electrically resistive properties of a degraded liquid crystal

    Authors

    W. Lee; C. T. Wang;C. H. Lin

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Displays

    Keywords

    Liquid crystals; Display devices; Liquid-crystal devices; Dielectric; loss and relaxation; ELECTROOPTICAL PROPERTIES; DEVICE; FIELD; IONS; Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture; Engineering, Electrical &; Electronic; Instruments & Instrumentation; Optics

    Abstract

    Liquid crystals stored in vials and bottles are often found to degrade with time, trapping more and more ion impurity in the materials. Here we report on our identification of a major source causing such degradation and illustrate how the electrical properties of an old batch of liquid crystal can be restored by a regenerative agent. This approach, which is demonstrated to be quite efficient, entails simply soaking the agent in the liquid crystal. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    Displays

    Volume

    31

    Issue/Number

    3

    Publication Date

    1-1-2010

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    160

    Last Page

    163

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000280657500009

    ISSN

    0141-9382

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