Multistable electro-optical modes in ferroelectric liquid crystals

Eugene Pozhidaev*, Vladimir Chigrinov, Gurumurthy Hegde, Peizhi Xu

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Abstract

Multistable electro-optical modes exist under certain conditions in ferroelectric liquid-crystal (FLC) cells, which means that any light-transmission level can be memorized after the driving voltage is switched off. The multistability is responsible for three new electro-optical modes with different shapes of the gray-scale curve that can be either S-shaped (double or single dependent upon the applied-voltage pulse sequence and boundary conditions) or V-shaped dependent upon boundary conditions and FLC cell parameters. The origin of these modes will be described.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)53-59
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of the Society for Information Display
Volume17
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2009

Keywords

  • Ferroelectric
  • Liquid crystal
  • Multistable
  • S-shaped
  • V-shaped

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