Tuesday, 4 July 2006 - 12:00 AM
DEVIP-54

Electro-optical characteristics of in-plane switching cholesteric LCDs

Sang Kyung Kim and Daeseung Kang. Department of Electrical Engineering, Soongsil University, 511 Sangdo-Dong Dongjak-Gu, Seoul, 156-743, South Korea

We have investigated electro-optical properties of an in-plane switching cholesteric liquid crystal display (LCD). ChLC mixture used in this experiment was a mixture of ZLI-6000-100 (Merck, no=1.5082, ne=1.6589) and chiral additive S-811 (Merck Co.). The resulting liquid crystal mixture with chiral additive (~28wt%) appeared greenish at ambient light. Reflection peak wavelength at zero field is about 530nm in the planar state. To apply in-plane electric field, we devised a comb-shaped ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) pattern on glass substrates. The reflectance was measured by using an Ocean Optics S2000 UV-Vis spectrometer connected to the microscope by a single mode optical fiber. Planar and focal-conic texture changes are induced by application of an in-plane electric field.

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