Electrically Tunable Selective Reflection of Light from Ultraviolet to Visible and Infrared by Heliconical Cholesterics

Jie Xiang, Yannian Li, Quan Li, Daniel A. Paterson, John M. D. Storey, Corrie T. Imrie, Oleg D. Lavrentovich* (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

Electrical tuning of selective reflection of light is achieved in a very broad spectral range from ultraviolet to visible and infrared by an oblique helicoidal state of a cholesteric liquid crystal in a wide temperature range (including room temperature). The phenomenon offers potential applications in tunable smart windows, lasers, optical filters and limiters, as well as in displays.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3014-3018
Number of pages5
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume27
Issue number19
Early online date27 Mar 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 May 2015

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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by NSF DMR-1410378 and DMR-1121288. We thank V. Borshch for helping with preparation of illustrations, to Y. K. Kim for the help in experiments, V. A. Belyakov and S. V. Shiyanovskii for useful discussions.

Keywords

  • dimeric materials
  • electrical tuning of selective light reflection
  • heliconical cholesteric liquid crystal
  • nematic liquid-crystals
  • color
  • band

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