Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals on Chalcogenide Glass As20Se80 Surface

Authors

  • N. Boyarchuk Institute of Physics, Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine
  • Yu. Kurioz Institute of Physics, Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine
  • K. Slyusarenko Institute of Physics, Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine
  • M. Trunov Uzhgorod National University
  • Yu. Reznikov Institute of Physics, Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe57.2.129

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Abstract

Photoalignment of nematic liquid crystals on the chalcogenide glass As20Se80 surface is studied by the digital processing of the optical textures of light-induced twist deformations of a liquid crystal (LC) in a cell irradiated with Gaussian polarized light. The original experimental method allowed obtaining the dependence of the light-induced twist angle for the As20Se80 surface on the exposure dose by the analysis of the only irradiated spot. The dependences of the light-induced twist angle on the exposure dose are found to be qualitatively different for LC~5CB and LC E7, which points on a possibility of different mechanisms of photoalignment on chalcogenide glass.

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2012-02-15

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Boyarchuk, N., Kurioz, Y., Slyusarenko, K., Trunov, M., & Reznikov, Y. (2012). Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals on Chalcogenide Glass As20Se80 Surface. Ukrainian Journal of Physics, 57(2), 129. https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe57.2.129

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Atoms and molecules