Observation of the photorefractive effects in bent-core liquid crystals. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present a new observation of photorefractive (PR) effects in bent-core nematic (BCN) liquid crystal (LC) materials, where two kinds of optical-induced gratings are demonstrated and compared in pure and surface-doped BCN systems. The experimental results showed that these two kinds of gratings exhibit distinctive different polarization-dependent and angular-dependent behaviors, respectively. Furthermore, we supplied the pure and surface-doped rodlike LC systems for comparison, which revealed that V shape molecular structure of BCN can produce charge carrier more efficiently than rodlike molecular structure does. Thus BCN materials can offer an exciting potential for optical information processing.

author list (cited authors)

  • Xiang, Y., Liu, Y., Zhang, Z., You, H., Xia, T., Wang, E., & Cheng, Z.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Xiang, Ying||Liu, Yi-Kun||Zhang, Zhi-Yong||You, Hong-Jun||Xia, Tian||Wang, Everett||Cheng, Zheng-Dong

publication date

  • February 2013