Dynamic Orientation of Silver Nanowires via Photoalignment for Liquid Crystal Display Technology

Jingxin Sang; Li Han; Mingxia Liu; Jianhua Shang; Jiatong Sun; Lizheng Guo; Dengteng Ge; Yihong Zhang; Shuguang Zhao; Vladimir G. Chigrinov

doi:10.1021/acsanm.1c03140

Dynamic Orientation of Silver Nanowires via Photoalignment for Liquid Crystal Display Technology

Jingxin Sang
, Li Han
, Mingxia Liu
, Jianhua Shang
, Jiatong Sun^*
, Lizheng Guo
, Dengteng Ge
, Yihong Zhang
, Shuguang Zhao
, Vladimir G. Chigrinov

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

The fabrication and manipulation of tunable micro- and macro-domain silver nanowires (AgNWs) remains challenging. In this letter, we explored the dispersion, orientation, reorientation, order parameters, twist nematic structures, and in-plane and vertical dynamic switching of AgNWs dispersed in a liquid crystal (LC) host. The order parameter of the orientational AgNWs is 0.91–0.94. Three-dimensional (3D) orientation and reorientation of AgNWs could be achieved through photoalignment and an electric field. This study reveals that the alignment of AgNWs is promising in the fabrication of liquid crystal display and optoelectronic devices, and it exhibits a variety of useful behaviors in the LC hosts of both theoretical and practical interest.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	12937-12942
Number of pages	6
Journal	ACS Applied Nano Materials
Volume	4
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c03140
Publication status	Published - 24 Dec 2021

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Keywords

dynamic 3D orientation
liquid crystal
order parameter
photoalignment
silver nanowires

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