Investigation into chiral active waveplates

被引：13

作者：

Davidson, A. J. ^{[1
]}

Elston, S. J. ^{[1
]}

Raynes, E. P. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Oxford, Dept Engn, London OX1 3PJ, England

来源：

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS | 2006年 / 99卷 / 09期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

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D O I：

10.1063/1.2199973

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

An examination into a chiral liquid crystal active waveplate device using a one-dimensional model, giving numerical results, is presented. The model calculates the director and flow configuration by minimizing the free energy of the chiral nematic modeled with fixed boundary conditions. The static case of varying the flexoclectric coefficients, electric field magnitude, and dielectric anisotropy is examined and it is shown that both flexoelectricity and dielectric effects alter the birefringence of the device in the presence of an electric field. The dynamic reaction to a rotating electric field is then examined. (C) 2006 American Institute of Physics.

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页数：8

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