Liquid crystal guest host devices and their use as light shutters

Naci Basturk

doi:10.1117/12.2283639

28 March 1990 Liquid crystal guest host devices and their use as light shutters

Naci Basturk

Proceedings Volume 10304, Large-Area Chromogenics: Materials and Devices for Transmittance Control; 1030410 (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2283639
Event: Institutes for Advanced Optical Technologies, 1989, Hamburg, Germany

Abstract

The first guest host (GH) display was suggested in 1968 by Heilmeier and Zanoni . They proposed dissolving pleochroic dye molecules in a nematic liquid crystal (LC). A pleochroic dye is characterized by unequal absorption of two perpendicularly polarized beams of incident light. This anisotropic absorption can be described by two absorption constants. In the case of linear dichroism these absorption cons- tants are related to directions of polarization, respectively parallel and perpen- dicular to the transition moment of the dye molecule.

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Naci Basturk "Liquid crystal guest host devices and their use as light shutters", Proc. SPIE 10304, Large-Area Chromogenics: Materials and Devices for Transmittance Control, 1030410 (28 March 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2283639

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