Electrooptic Response of Reflective Liquid Crystal Cell

  • Lee, Geon-Joon (Quantum Photonic Science Research Center, Hanyang University) ;
  • C. H. Oh (Quantum Photonic Science Research Center, Hanyang University) ;
  • Lee, Y. P. (Quantum Photonic Science Research Center, Hanyang University) ;
  • T. K. Lim (Department of Physics, Korea University)
  • 발행 : 2003.10.01

초록

The electrooptic properties of the reflected light in a reflective mode, $45^{\circ}C$twisted nematic liquid crystal (TNLC) cell were investigated in the voltage regions near and away from the Freedericksz transition threshold. The measured reflectivity away from the threshold voltage ($V_th$) could not be described by the model which assurnes a constant tilt angle as well as a linearized distribution of twist angle across the cell, although the data are well fitted near $V_th$. We found that in the voltage region away from $V_th$, the model considering the distributions of the tilt angle and the twist angle should be applied for the calculation of the reflectivity. The director-axis distributions were obtained from the numerical integration of the Euler-Lagrange equation.

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