Electro-opto-thermal addressing bistable and re-addressable display device based on gelator-doped liquid crystals in a poly(N-vinylcarbazole) film-coated liquid crystal cell

Ko Ting Cheng, Yi Tang, Cheng Kai Liu

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Abstract

This paper reports an electro-opto-thermal addressing bistable and re-addressable display device based on gelator-doped liquid crystals (LCs) in a poly(N-vinylcarbazole) film-coated LC cell. The bistability and re-addressability of the devices were achieved through the formation of a rubbery LC/gel mixture at room temperature. The desired patterns were addressed, erased, and re-addressed by controlling the temperature, applied voltage, and UV light illumination. Moreover, grayscales were obtained by adjusting UV light intensity. The initiation, relaxation, rise, and fall times of photoconductive poly(N-vinylcarbazole) via UV light illumination of various intensities were also examined.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)23572-23582
Number of pages11
JournalOptics Express
Volume24
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Oct 2016

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