Bistable Property in a Splay Cell with a Chiral Additive

  • Lee, Seo-Hern (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Tae-Jin (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Lac (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Jung, Mi-Jun (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Park, Kyoung-Ho (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Gi-Dong (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Research Institute of Computer, Information and Communication, Pusan National University) ;
  • Yoon, Tae-Hoon (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Research Institute of Computer, Information and Communication, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Chang (Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Research Institute of Computer, Information and Communication, Pusan National University)
  • 발행 : 2003.09.30

초록

In this paper, we propose the bistability the bistability in a chiral-splay nematic liquid crystal cell, which is obtained by adding a chiral additive to a splay cell and introduce a novel switching method for the bistable chiral-splay nematic cell in order to transit the LC director between the non-twisted state with splay and the 180$^{\circ}$ twist state.

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