Reversible Nanoparticle Cubic Lattices in Blue Phase Liquid Crystals

Blue-Phase Liquid Crystals for Projection Displays

A projection display using blue-phase liquid crystal (BPLC) is proposed. The fast-response BPLC enables field sequential projection display with suppressed color breakup. Methods for reducing the operating voltage are also discussed. Author

Numerical calculations of the phase diagram of cubic blue phases in cholesteric liquid crystals.

We study the static properties of cubic blue phases by numerically minimizing the three-dimensional, Landau-de Gennes free energy for a cholesteric liquid crystal close to the isotropic-cholesteric phase transition. Thus we are able to refine the powerful but approximate, semianalytic frameworks that have been used previously. We obtain the equilibrium phase diagram and discuss it in relation t...

Photoisomerization-induced stable liquid crystalline cubic blue phase.

We have succeeded in obtaining a photoinduced liquid crystalline cubic BP in a mixture of photoinactive and photoresponsive bent-core mesogens. The UV stimulus can convert N* to cubic BP through photoisomerization of the azobenzene linkages included in the photoresponsive bent-core molecule.

Diluter Effects on Large Dielectric Anisotropy Blue Phase Liquid Crystals

We have investigated diluter effects on the Debye relaxation frequency, and electro-optics of polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystals (BPLC). The relaxation frequency can be increased by adding a small amount of diluters, which benefits high frequency operation of BPLC. Some diluters significantly decrease the BPLC response time while maintaining similar Kerr constant. Author

Electric field-induced monodomain blue phase liquid crystals