Liquid crystalline amorphous blue phase and its large electrooptical Kerr effect

@article{Le2011LiquidCA,
  title={Liquid crystalline amorphous blue phase and its large electrooptical Kerr effect},
  author={Khoa V. Le and Satoshi Aya and Yuji Sasaki and Hyunhee Choi and Fumito Araoka and Kenji Ema and J{\'o}zef Mieczkowski and Antal J{\'a}kli and Ken Ishikawa and Hideo Takezoe},
  journal={Journal of Materials Chemistry},
  year={2011},
  volume={21},
  pages={2855-2857}
}
  • K. Le, S. Aya, H. Takezoe
  • Published 14 February 2011
  • Physics, Materials Science
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry
An amorphous blue phase III with low and wide thermal range (∼20 °C) including room temperature is induced by doping a bent-core nematic with a strong chiral material. We confirm that the electrooptical response is due to the Kerr effect, with the Kerr constant being up to two orders of magnitude larger than conventional Kerr materials such as nitrobenzene. 
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