Chandran, Achu and Prakash, Jai and Naik, Kush Kumar and Srivastava, Avanish Kumar and browski, Roman Da˛ and Czerwinski, Michał and Biradar, A. M. (2014) Preparation and characterization of MgO nanoparticles/ferroelectric liquid crystal composites for faster display devices with improved contrast. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2 (10). pp. 1844-1853. ISSN 2050-7526
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Abstract
In this article, we present the formulation and characterization of a ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) mixture W301 composed of pyrimidine compounds. We observed that upon doping magnesium oxide nanoparticles (MgO NPs) into the host FLC, the MgO NPs/FLC composite showed significantly faster response and improved optical tilt angle. The decreased response time in the MgO NPs/FLC composite has been attributed to the decrease in rotational viscosity and increase in surface anchoring energy. The decrease in rotational viscosity of the composite is due to the torque experienced by both MgO NPs and FLC in the presence of an electric field and perturbations of order parameters of FLC. Due to the enhanced surface interaction of MgO NPs having surface defects with mesogens, strong surface anchoring is experienced on the FLC molecules that not only increased the speed of the response but also improved the optical tilt angle of the MgO NPs/FLC composites, which ultimately resulted in improved contrast. A systematic approach has been followed to elucidate the idea of designing faster display devices with improved contrast based on MgO NPs/FLC composites.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Materials Science Physics |
| Divisions: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Rajpal Walke |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Nov 2015 06:11 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2015 06:11 |
| URI: | http://npl.csircentral.net/id/eprint/1474 |
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