Smectic nanostructures with typical size less than the visible light wavelength: physics and electro-optics

Authors

  • Evgeny Pavlovich Pozhidaev P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 53, Moscow, 19991, Russia
  • Vadim Evgenievich Molkin P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 53, Moscow, 19991, Russia
  • Vladimir Grigorievich Chigrinov Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v3i1.189

Abstract

Very short helix pitch (p0~150-200nm) ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) have been developed. Electro-optical cells based on these mixtures are free from selective reflection and diffraction in the visible spectral range and therefore exhibit very perfect operation in deformed helix ferroelectric (DHF) mode. Two main electro-optical modes of DHF cells with sub-wavelength helix pitch are under consideration  

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2011-03-31

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E. P. Pozhidaev, V. E. Molkin, and V. G. Chigrinov, “Smectic nanostructures with typical size less than the visible light wavelength: physics and electro-optics”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 3, no. 1, pp. pp. 11–13, Mar. 2011.

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