Photochemical Switching of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Using a Photoswitchable Chiral Dopant
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemistry Letters
- Vol. 25 (4) , 319-320
- https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.1996.319
Abstract
Fast optical switching (response time 90 μs) was achieved of ferroelectric liquid crystals doped with a photoresponsive chiral dopant having an azobenzene moiety.Keywords
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