Liquid Crystal Microdroplets and confined systems for novel shutters

用于新型百叶窗的液晶微滴和受限系统

• 批准号: 1723528
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1723528
• 关键词: Liquid; Crystal; Microdroplets; confined; systems

Liquid crystals are not just important for displays, but also for the next generation of photonic devices. They arealready being used to create printable lasers, smart windows, adaptive optics, switchable optical filters andoptical interconnects. This studentship will investigate new geometries of liquid crystal materials with the ultimateaim of producing fast phase modulators. An area of increasing interest in liquid crystals is the use of droplets ofliquid crystals to contain the material. Although this has been done using polymers for some years now, the useof liquid crystals in emulsions, shells and aerosols is new. These systems have the potential to produce novelelectro-optic materials where the refractive index is modulated by an applied field. The research will begin byinvestigating how to control droplet formation, methods for influencing droplet shape and size, and to investigatemethods for obtaining different liquid crystal structures within the droplets in a controllable fashion.

液晶不仅对于显示器很重要，对于下一代光子器件也很重要。它们已被用于制造可打印激光器、智能窗户、自适应光学器件、可切换光学滤波器和光学互连。该奖学金将研究液晶材料的新几何形状，最终目标是生产快速相位调制器。人们对液晶越来越感兴趣的一个领域是使用液晶滴来容纳材料。尽管使用聚合物来实现这一点已有多年，但在乳液、贝壳和气雾剂中使用液晶还是新鲜事。这些系统有潜力生产新型电光材料，其中折射率由外加场调制。该研究将首先研究如何控制液滴形成、影响液滴形状和尺寸的方法，并研究以可控方式在液滴内获得不同液晶结构的方法。

项目成果

Effects of monoclinic symmetry on the properties of biaxial liquid crystals.

单斜对称性对双轴液晶性能的影响。

• DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.042702
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Physical review. E
• 作者: Solodkov NV

Electrically Driven Rotation and Nonreciprocal Motion of Microparticles in Nematic Liquid Crystals.

• DOI: 10.1002/smll.202003352
• 发表时间: 2020-09
• 期刊: Small
• 影响因子: 13.3
• 作者: N. V. Solodkov;A. Saxena;J. C. Jones

Alignment and electro-optical properties of SmC * with direct transition to N * phases

直接转变为 N * 相的 SmC * 的对准和电光特性

• DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2017.1289558
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
• 影响因子: 0.7
• 作者: Solodkov N