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Electro-optical effects in liquid crystals


Federal Scientific Research Center "Crystallography and Photonics", Russian Academy of Sciences, Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii prosp. 59, Moscow, 119333, Russian Federaion

This review gives information on the electric and optical properties of liquid crystals (LC), and discusses in detail various electro-optical effects in nematic, cholesteric, and smectic LC. Dielectric deformations of LC in electric fields, electrodynamic instabilities, the electromechanical effect, etc., are treated. Special attention is paid to explaining the physical reasons for the change in the optical properties of thin LC films when acted on by an electric potential. The practical applications of LC in electro-optical devices are briefly reviewed.

PACS: 78.20.Jq, 61.30.Eb, 78.66.−w, 42.79.Kr (all)
DOI: 10.1070/PU1975v017n05ABEH004364
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/1975/5/k/
Citation: Blinov L M "Electro-optical effects in liquid crystals" Sov. Phys. Usp. 18 658–672 (1975)
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Оригинал: Блинов Л М «Электрооптические эффекты в жидких кристаллах» УФН 114 67–96 (1974); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0114.197409d.0067

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