Tunable scattering from liquid crystal devices using carbon nanotubes network electrodes

Ammar A. Khan; G. Dinesha M R Dabera; Haider Butt; Malik M. Qasim; Gehan A J Amaratunga; S. Ravi P Silva; Timothy D. Wilkinson

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Tunable scattering from liquid crystal devices using carbon nanotubes network electrodes

Ammar A. Khan, G. Dinesha M R Dabera, Haider Butt^*, Malik M. Qasim, Gehan A J Amaratunga, S. Ravi P Silva, Timothy D. Wilkinson

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Liquid crystals are of technological interest as they allow for optical effects which can be electrically controlled. In this paper we present an electro-optical device consisting of nematic liquid crystals addressed by an electrode structure consisting of thin films of polymer wrapped single walled carbon nanotubes (nanohybrids). Thin films of nanohybrids display excellent optical transmission and electrical conduction properties. Due to the randomly organised nanohybrids these composite films produce interesting director profile arrangements within the liquid crystal layers. As a result, enhanced scattering of laser and white light was observed from these liquid crystal cells which bend themselves as electrically controllable optical diffusers and beam shapers. This journal is

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	330-336
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nanoscale
Volume	7
Issue number	1
Early online date	6 Nov 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c4nr04466e
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015

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