Author:
Tang Jiayue,Liu Fashun,Lu Mengli,Zhao Dongyu
Abstract
AbstractBlue-phase liquid crystals (BPLCs) are regarded as potential materials for the exploitation of next-generation optical devices due to the rapid response, wide viewing angle, and simple industrial production procedures. However, practical application of traditional BPLCs is limited by their narrow temperature range and high driving voltage. Herein, we demonstrated that doping of chiral molecular isosorbide hexyloxybenzoate (R811) into BPLCs is able to increase the temperature range. More importantly, addition of InP/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) with oleylamine surface groups could also effectively broaden the temperature range of the BPLCs further while decreasing the driving voltage, which is attributed to the quantum dot trapped by BPLCs lattice defect that reduces its free energy. Since the trapped quantum dot subsequently forms a local electric field under electric field, the effective electric field of the surrounding liquid crystal molecules is enhanced and the rotation of the liquid crystal molecules is accelerated. Specially, the temperature range is widened by 1.4 °C, and the driving voltage is reduced by 57%, under the optimal concentration of R811 and lnP/ZnS QDs. The accomplishment we proposed in this work is a prospective optimization which makes the practical application of blue phase liquid crystals one step closer.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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12 articles.
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