Study of electrical behavior of liquid crystal devices doped with titanium dioxide nanoparticles

Authors

  • Vicente Marzal Carlos III University of Madrid
  • Juan Carlos Torres Carlos III University of Madrid
  • Braulio García Carlos III University of Madrid
  • Isabel Pérez Carlos III University of Madrid
  • José Manuel Sánchez Carlos III University of Madrid
  • Wiktor Piecek Military University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/plp.v9i1.712

Abstract

In the last years, nanostructures are widely used as dopants in liquid crystals to manipulate either their electrical or optical properties. In this work, we have analyzed the electrical response of a planar cell filled with a mixture of E7 liquid crystal doped with TiO2 nanoparticles. The effect of these dopants on the effective permittivity and conductivity of the cell has been studied in a wide frequency range at different temperatures.

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2017-03-31

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V. Marzal, J. C. Torres, B. García, I. Pérez, J. M. Sánchez, and W. Piecek, “Study of electrical behavior of liquid crystal devices doped with titanium dioxide nanoparticles”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 9, no. 1, pp. pp. 20–22, Mar. 2017.

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017)

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