[23p-1BC-1~19] 12.3 Functional Materials and Novel Devices

6:30 PM - 6:45 PM JST(9:30 AM - 9:45 AM UTC)

[23p-1BC-18] Orientation Switching Properties in Hybrid Aligned Nematic Liquid Crystal Cells with Microscale Orientation Patterns

〇Michinori Honma¹, Ryota Ito¹, Toshiaki Nose¹ (1.Akita Pref. Univ.)

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liquid crystal

We can frequently observe bistable liquid crystal (LC) molecular orientation properties in hybrid-aligned nematic LC cells with microscale alignment patterns. So far, we have found that the switching between stable and quasi-stable states can be achieved by inducing an isotropic-nematic phase transition (heating and cooling the cell), together with a voltage application-removal process. In this work, it is revealed that bistable switching can electrically be achieved without the thermal process by optimizing the microscale alignment pattern and voltage application-removal process.