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Electro-optical Characterization of Bistable Smectic A Liquid Crystal Displays
| Title: | Electro-optical Characterization of Bistable Smectic A Liquid Crystal Displays |
| Author: | Buyuktanir, Ebru Aylin |
| Description: | My dissertation focuses the characterization and optimization of the electro-optical properties of smectic A (SmA) based liquid crystal (LC) displays. I present the development of robust and flexible bistable SmA LC displays utilizing polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) technology. The SmA PDLC displays produced on plastic substrates present electrically reversible memory, high contrast ratio, paper-like sunlight readability, and wide viewing angle characteristics. In order to optimize the SmA PDLC display, I investigated polymerization conditions, such as polymer concentration effect, polymerization temperature, and UV-light intensity variations. I characterized the electro-optical responses – such as static-response, time-response, threshold characteristics, and contrast ratio values – of the optimized SmA PDLC display and compared them to those of the pure SmA LC. The best electro-optical performance of SmA PDLC formulation was obtained using the combination of low (20 mW/cm2) UV-light curing intensity. The contrast ratio of the optimum SmA PDLC at a 5o collection angle was 83% of that of the pure SmA material on plastic substrates. I fabricated 2.5 x 2.5 in., 4 x 4 in., and 6 x 6 in. sized monochrome flexible SmA PDLC displays, as well as red, yellow, and fluorescent dyes colored SmA PDLC displays on plastic substrates. The electro-optic performance of the bistable SmA LC display consisting of a patterned field-induced polymer wall infrastructure was also studied and compared to those of pure SmA material. I found that the contrast ratio of the SmA LC encapsulated between polymer walls was much greater than that of the SmA PDLC system, approaching the contrast ratio value of the pure SmA material. I also improved the electro-optical characteristics of bistable SmA LC displays by adding ferroparticles into the system. Finally, I illustrated the unique capabilities of polarized confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) to resolve the orientational order of SmA LCs in three-dimension by investigating the characteristic vibrational bands of LC molecules. CRM provides a precise characterization of the molecular order at different depths of the LC films. I examined the director patterns of focal conic defects of smectic A LC, colloidal smectic A LC systems, and the field-oriented nematic LC in the horizontal and vertical planes. |
| Permanent Link: |
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1207869606
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/17740 |
| Date: | 2008 |
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