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Colorless High Dielectric Compounds for Low Voltage Liquid Crystal Application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Shin-Tson Wu
Affiliation:
HRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Road, Malibu, CA 90265
Robert N. Schwartz
Affiliation:
HRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Road, Malibu, CA 90265
Qing T. Zhang
Affiliation:
139-74 Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, (Present address: Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721)
Seth Marder
Affiliation:
139-74 Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, (Present address: Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721)
Chain-Shu Hsu
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC.
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Abstract

Several colorless compounds with dielectric anisotropy in the 10-50 range were studied. The absorption spectra, phase transition temperature, birefringence, dielectric anisotropy and visco-elastic coefficient of these compounds were measured.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1999

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