Spontaneous helix formation in non-chiral bent-core liquid crystals with fast linear electro-optic effect

Sithara P. Sreenilayam; Yuri P. Panarin; Jagdish K. Vij; Vitaly P. Panov; Anne Lehmann; Marco Poppe; Marko Prehm; Carsten Tschierske

doi:10.1038/ncomms11369

Nature Communications (May 2016)

Spontaneous helix formation in non-chiral bent-core liquid crystals with fast linear electro-optic effect

Sithara P. Sreenilayam,
Yuri P. Panarin,
Jagdish K. Vij,
Vitaly P. Panov,
Anne Lehmann,
Marco Poppe,
Marko Prehm,
Carsten Tschierske

Affiliations

Sithara P. Sreenilayam: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Yuri P. Panarin: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Jagdish K. Vij: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Vitaly P. Panov: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Anne Lehmann: Department of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Marco Poppe: Department of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Marko Prehm: Department of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Carsten Tschierske: Department of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11369
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Liquid crystals that consist of rod-like molecules currently dominate the materials used in industry for display and photonic applications. Here, the authors demonstrate electro-optic grey-scale switching based on the spontaneous formation of a short-pitch helix in a tilted smectic phase of achiral bent-core molecules.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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