Project/Area Number |
24656017
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Applied materials science/Crystal engineering
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Research Institution | Oita University |
Principal Investigator |
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Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
Orihara Hiroshi 北海道大学, 工学研究科, 教授 (30177307)
Hidaka Yoshiki 九州大学, 工学研究院, 助教 (70274511)
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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Keywords | 液晶電気対流 / パターン形成 / 散逸構造 / 液晶 / 物性基礎 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
When we apply an electric field and a laser beam on a liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy which is sandwiched between a photoconductive crystal and a glass plate, a localized electro-convection is incused. The shape of electro-convection is as that of the laser beam. We measured the light intensity dependence of the threshold voltage of electro-convection and found the suitable condition to induce the electro-convection. As the increase of laser beam, the threshold voltage decreases exponentially and becomes a constant value. We prepared a homogenous cell in which the director aligns a single direction and a twisted cell in which the director rotates by 90 degrees. For the homogenous cell, we investigated angle-deflective oscillation. For the twisted cell, on the other hand, we investigated a flow along the axis of convective rolls.
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