V-shaped switching in ferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures induced by an achiral swallow-tailed material

Phase Behavior and Electro-Optical Studies in Mixtures of Chiral and Non-Chiral Tilted Smectic C-Type Liquid Crystals

“…However, it has been shown that binary mixtures of an achiral swallow-tailed compound [8] with antiferro-electric liquid crystal (S)-MHPOBC display V-shaped switching of its electro-optical response in antiferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures. Moreover, the V-shaped switching appears at a relatively high amount of achiral swallowed-tailed compound, suggesting that this optical switching can take place at relatively low polarization [9]. This paper is a study of the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phases in mono-mesogenic (AB type) and bi-mesogenic (ABA type) materials.…”

The mixtures of chiral and non-chiral tilted smectic C liquid crystals which contain wide ferroelectric phase

“…However, it has been shown that binary mixtures of an achiral swallow-tailed compound (Wu and Chiang 2002) with antiferroelectric liquid crystal (S)-MHPOBC displayed V-shaped switching of their electro-optical response in antiferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures. Moreover, the V-shaped switching appeared at a relatively high amount of achiral swallowed-tailed compound, suggesting that this optical switching can take place at a relatively low polarization (Wu and Lin 2003). This article is a study of the ferroelectric and antiferroelectric phases in mono-mesogenic (AB type) and bimesogenic (ABA type) materials.…”

A Study of a Binary Liquid-Crystalline Mixtures with the Wide Antiferroelectric Phase

“…Thresholdless, V-shaped switching in various structures of chiral smectic materials has become a subject of extensive investigations due to their very attractive properties for display applications [4], suggesting their potential for active matrix (AM) or thin film transistor (TFT) addressing in display devices [5]. Since now current investigations have been based mainly on the Inui and Mitsui mixtures [6], or mixtures containing achiral swallow-tailed compound and antiferroelectric compounds [7][8][9][10]. Known results clearly indicate, that V-shaped switching behavior critically depends on the boundary conditions [11], the thickness of the LC slab and employed frequency of applied electric field.…”