Carbon nanotube effects on physical properties of liquid crystal and electro-optic characteristics of in-plane switching liquid crystal cell

카본나노튜브가 액정의 물성과 in-plane switching 셀의 전기광학 특성에 미치는 영향

  • Published : 2010.04.01

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-doped homogeneously aligned nematic liquid crystal (LC) cells driven by in-plane field were fabricated and their electro-optic characteristics were investigated. Effective cell retardation values in an absence of an electric field between doped and undoped LC were the same each other. In the presence of an electric field, however, measured effective cell retardation value was smaller in the CNT-doped cell than in the undoped cell so that the transmittance was slightly smaller in the CNT-doped cell than in the undoped cell. In addition, the CNT-doped cell exhibited slight increase in driving voltage and decrease in response time compared to the undoped cell. The CNT effects on electro-optic characteristics of the cell were discussed.

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