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Fast Mode in the Electro-Optical Switching of a Liquid Crystal Cell with Interdigitated Electrodes

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The conditions for the emergence of a fast electro-optical mode in a liquid crystal cell with a short period (p = 1.8 μm) of interdigitated electrodes have been investigated. The electro-optical switching in two liquid crystal mixtures differing in viscosity and dielectric and optical anisotropies has been studied through numerical simulations and experimentally. The fast mode switching times are shown to be in the submillisecond range and to be related to the switching of a near-electrode liquid crystal layer comparable in thickness to the period of the electrode structures. The inclusion of the entire liquid crystal volume in the switching process is characterized by a slow mode with considerably longer times.

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Our studies were supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the State contract of the Federal Research Center “Crystallography and Photonics” of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, “Crystallography and Photonics” Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333, Moscow, Russia

    I. V. Simdyankin, A. R. Geivandov & S. P. Palto

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Simdyankin, I.V., Geivandov, A.R. & Palto, S.P. Fast Mode in the Electro-Optical Switching of a Liquid Crystal Cell with Interdigitated Electrodes. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 131, 664–668 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776120090083

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