Switching Dynamics And Structures Of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals In The Surface Stabilized Geometry

J . E. Maclennan; N. A. Clark

doi:10.1117/12.941934

19 January 1988 Switching Dynamics And Structures Of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals In The Surface Stabilized Geometry

J . E. Maclennan, N. A. Clark

Proceedings Volume 0822, Raman and Luminescence Spectroscopy in Technology; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.941934
Event: 31st Annual Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Sciences and Engineering, 1987, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Ferroelectric smectic C Liauid Crystals (FLCs) in the Surface Stabilized geometry offer high speed, high contrast, bistable electro-optic switching characteristics. As a result, SSFLC devices are now beginning to be employed in a variety of light control applications in laboratory, display, fiber optic, and data processing applications. In this paper we discuss the structural and dynamic properties of SSFLC cells and their relationship to electro-optic switching characteristics. We have used optical transmission spectroscopy to determine the spatial variation of molecular orientation within non-uniform FLC cells as a function of applied electric field. Numerical solutions of the equation of motion suggest that director reorientation could be governed by the motion of solitary waves at very high fields.

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J . E. Maclennan and N. A. Clark "Switching Dynamics And Structures Of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals In The Surface Stabilized Geometry", Proc. SPIE 0822, Raman and Luminescence Spectroscopy in Technology, (19 January 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.941934

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