Author
Jakub Herman
Recent research
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Guest-host approach to reduce driving voltages in electro optic liquid crystal devices
We describe a simple guest-host approach allowing the reduction of driving voltages in liquid crystal (LC) electro optic devices via the increase of the effective dielectric anisotropy. This is achieved by doping the nematic LC host by molecules possessing high dipole moments. Po...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
ABSTRACT The recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals, combining fluidity with spontaneous polarization, offer unique opportunities for engineering polar domain structures for (nonlinear) photonic applications. A central challenge lies in achieving precise contro...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
A series of 10 novel liquid crystalline compounds based on oligophenyl and tolane cores bearing laterally positioned cyano groups has been designed, synthesized, and systematically investigated. The molecular architecture was tailored by varying the number and position of lateral...