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Absorbance and Pitch Relationships in Dichroic Guest-Host Liquid Crystal Systems

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The absorbance of a dichroic dye dissolved in chiral nematic hosts in the Grandjean texture increased with decreasing pitch of the host. Absorbance was higher for hosts of low birefringence and high order parameter. Boundary condition, homeotropic or parallel (homogeneous), had no appreciable effect on absorbance, but threshold voltage was higher for the parallel than homeotropic boundary. The results agreed with theoretical plots relating absorbance to pitch.

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  1. General Electric Corporate Research and Development, Schenectady, New York, 12301, USA

    H. S. Cole Jr. & S. Aftergut

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  1. Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 06268, USA

    Julian F. Johnson

  2. Materials Research Laboratory Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 01002, USA

    Roger S. Porter

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Cole, H.S., Aftergut, S. (1978). Absorbance and Pitch Relationships in Dichroic Guest-Host Liquid Crystal Systems. In: Johnson, J.F., Porter, R.S. (eds) Liquid Crystals and Ordered Fluids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8888-7_9

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