Nordendorf, Gaby: Effects of monomer composition on the electro-optic performance of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals. 2015
Content
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Background
- Some liquid crystalline phases and their optical properties
- Electric field effects
- Liquid crystal displays
- Polymerization
- Stabilization of the blue phase
- Experiments
- Results and Discussion
- Differences between unpolymerized and polymerized samples
- Phase sequences of BP and PSBP mixtures
- Anomalies affecting the Kerr measurement
- Switching processes with different speed
- Stability of polymer-stabilized blue phase
- Influence of different parameters on the electro-optic performance
- Conclusions and Outlook
- Appendix
- Sample compositions
- BP mixtures without monomers
- PSBP mixtures with monomers
- PSBP mixtures for the test series with varying sample composition
- Mixture without monomers for test series with varying sample composition
- Phase sequence and polymerization temperature of the mixtures
- Individual mixtures
- Mixtures for test series with monomer
- Mixture for test series without monomers
- Cells to test preparation conditions
- Contributions in peer-reviewed journals
- Conference contributions
- Bibliography