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Published on: February 27, 2019
High-Reflective Templated Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Filters
Yao Gao1, Yuxiang Luo1, Jiangang Lu1
1National Engineering Lab for TFT-LCD Materials and Technologies, Department of Electronic, Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Abstract:
Cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) have been widely applied in optical filters due to Bragg reflection caused by their helical structure. However, the reflectivity of CLC filters is relatively low, commonly less than 50%, as the filters can only reflect light polarized circularly either left- or right-handedly. Therefore, a high-reflective CLC filter with a single-layer template was proposed which may reflect both right- and left-handed polarized light. The CLC filters of the red, green, blue color were fabricated by the templating technology, which show good wavelength consistency. Additionally, a multi-phase liquid crystal filter with high reflectance was demonstrated by the single-layer templating technology. The templated CLC or multi-phase liquid crystal filters show great potential applications in the optical community, reflective display, and lasing.
