Optically Reconfigurable Charge-Transfer Liquid Crystals

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  • TBMG-37029
Published June 01, 2020 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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Since the rise of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), organic liquid crystals have emerged as a versatile class of molecular materials with applications such as display technology, smart authentication, and data storage and retrieval. Most modern-day applications employ calamitic-type LCs; however, a sub-class of columnar phase liquid crystals, also known as charge-transfer (CT) liquid crystals, exhibits intense and broadly tunable charge-transfer absorbance in the visible near-infrared reflectance.