Development of Totally Reflected Forced Bayleigh Scattering System and its Application to Molecular Diffusion near Liguid Crystal Substrate Surface
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04555013
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Developmental Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
物理計測・光学
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKEZOE Hideo Tokyo Institute of Technology Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials Professor, 工学部, 教授 (10108194)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KAJIKAWA Kotaro Research Associate Present Address Riken, Research Scientist, 工学部, 助手 (10214305)
高西 陽一 東京工業大学, 工学部, 助手 (80251619)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1992 – 1993
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1993)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥2,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
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| Keywords | total reflection / Forced Rayleigh scattering / interface / liquid crystal / diffusion / 拡散定数 / ネマティック液晶 / 強制レーリ散乱 / 基板 |
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| Research Abstract |
FRS is a kind of microscopic tracer method based on transient grating (interference fringe ) technique using writing Ar^+ laser beams and a probing He-Ne laser beam. We can determine thediffusion constant of tracer molecules in host liquid crystals accurately and quickly. For the determination of diffusion constants near surface area, i.e., TFRS,we used a total reflection prism as one of a cell surface and the probing beam under a condition of total internal reflection.
A preliminary experiment was made for a nematic liquid crystal, 4'-n-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl ( 5CB ) . We found that the bulk diffusion shows a nearly single exponential decay. On the other hand, the surface diffusion includes a faster decay component in addition to a decayas same as that of the bulk diffusion. Thus, the surface diffusion is rather faster than the bulk one. Possible explanation is as follows : Surface roughness introduces disorder of molecular alignment and various kinds of defects, which accelerate the diffusion motion. This kind of phenomenon is well known in self-diffusion and impurity diffusion in metals.
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