Polarization-independent multiple selective reflections from bichiral liquid crystal films

Na Young Ha; Soon Moon Jeong; Suzushi Nishimura; Hideo Takezoe

doi:10.1063/1.3393996

Polarization-independent multiple selective reflections from bichiral liquid crystal films

Na Young Ha
, Soon Moon Jeong
, Suzushi Nishimura
, Hideo Takezoe

Division of Energy Techonology

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Abstract

We have demonstrated polarization-independent multiple reflections covering overall visible region from a bichiral liquid crystal (LC) film with both chiral structures. The bichiral LC film was fabricated by an all-solution process using left-handed and right-handed polymeric cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) films with a single pitch and an isotropic polymer film. The multiple reflections exceeding 50% reflectance were clearly observed at various polarizations of normally incident light. This characteristic can extend practical applications of CLCs to polarization-independent devices over broad-band regions.

Original language	English
Article number	153301
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	96
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3393996
State	Published - 12 Apr 2010

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N. H. acknowledges the financial support offered by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea Grant (Grant No. KRF-2008-331-C00111) and Basic Science Research Program through NRF of MEST (Grant No. 2009-0077411), Korea.

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