2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Stabilization of Cholesteric Blue Phase upon Doping Nano-particlesand Its Application to Fast Response Display
| Project/Area Number |
23656221
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Electronic materials/Electric materials
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
OZAKI Masanori 大阪大学, 大学院・工学研究科, 教授 (50204186)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 電気 / 電子材料 / 液晶 |
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| Research Abstract |
When gold nanoparticles (NPs) were doped in a cholesteric blue phase (BP) liquid crystal (LC), the temperature range of the BP increased from 0.5 to 5 oC. We believe that the NPs accumulate in the lattice disclinations of BP LC, stabilizing the overall BP structure. Using the NP-stabilized BP LC, polarization-independent refractive index (RI) modulation can be achieved by applying an electric field parallel to the direction of light transmission. We show that field-induced BP-cholesteric transition is suppressed and a larger RI tuning can be achieved.
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Research Products
(10 results)
