Determination of the permittivity of nematic liquid crystals in the microwave region

作者: Fuzi Yang , John Roy Sambles

DOI: 10.1080/0267829031000097466

关键词: Materials scienceLiquid crystalMicroscopeMicrowavePerpendicularPolarization (waves)ApertureAnisotropyOpticsPermittivity

摘要: Two 3 mm thick microscope glass plates, having one face plus their two long edges coated by a metallic film, are spaced 75 μm apart mylar spacers. Because of the coatings on inner faces structure acts as single slit. The space between plates is filled with aligned nematic liquid crystal (E7, Merck/BDH) and cell inserted in an absorber aperture. This slit geometry supports resonant modes when microwaves incident polarization (E-field) perpendicular to gives set Fabry-Perot-like transmission frequencies. These frequencies move voltage applied being first homogeneously, then realigning homeotropically field. By minotoring these changes fast easy use procedure for determining permittivity its anisotropy crystals microwave region has been developed. parameters d...

参考文章(13)
J L Adams, L C Botten, Double gratings and their applications as Fabry-Perot interferometers Journal of Optics. ,vol. 10, pp. 109- 117 ,(1979) , 10.1088/0150-536X/10/3/002
Heinz J. Deuling, Deformation of Nematic Liquid Crystals in an Electric Field Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. ,vol. 19, pp. 123- 131 ,(1972) , 10.1080/15421407208083858
J. A. Porto, F. J. García-Vidal, J. B. Pendry, Transmission Resonances on Metallic Gratings with Very Narrow Slits Physical Review Letters. ,vol. 83, pp. 2845- 2848 ,(1999) , 10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.83.2845
U. Schröter, D. Heitmann, SURFACE-PLASMON-ENHANCED TRANSMISSION THROUGH METALLIC GRATINGS Physical Review B. ,vol. 58, pp. 15419- 15421 ,(1998) , 10.1103/PHYSREVB.58.15419
Fréderic Guérin, Jean-Marc Chappe, Pascal Joffre, Daniel Dolfi, Modeling, Synthesis and Characterization of a Millimeter-Wave Multilayer Microstrip Liquid Crystal Phase Shifter Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. ,vol. 36, pp. 4409- 4413 ,(1997) , 10.1143/JJAP.36.4409
K. C. Lim, J. D. Margerum, A. M. Lackner, L. J. Miller, E. Sherman, W. H. Smith, Liquid crystal birefringence for millimeter wave radar Liquid Crystals. ,vol. 14, pp. 327- 337 ,(1993) , 10.1080/02678299308027647
K. C. Lim, J. D. Margerum, A. M. Lackner, Liquid crystal millimeter wave electronic phase shifter Applied Physics Letters. ,vol. 62, pp. 1065- 1067 ,(1993) , 10.1063/1.108796
Y. Takakura, Optical Resonance in a Narrow Slit in a Thick Metallic Screen Physical Review Letters. ,vol. 86, pp. 5601- 5603 ,(2001) , 10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.86.5601
K. C. Lim, J. D. Margerum, A. M. Lackner, E. Sherman, M.-S. Ho, B. M. Fung, W. B. Genetti, B. P. Grady, A Liquid Crystal Based Polymer for Applications in MMW Modulation Devices Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. ,vol. 302, pp. 187- 197 ,(1997) , 10.1080/10587259708041828
Fuzi Yang, J. R. Sambles, Resonant transmission of microwaves through a narrow metallic slit. Physical Review Letters. ,vol. 89, pp. 063901- 063901 ,(2002) , 10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.89.063901