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13 March 2024 Printing of liquid crystal droplets for functional optical elements
Mengmeng Li Jr., Steve J. Elston Sr., Chao He Sr., Waqas Kamal Sr., Xuke Qiu Jr., Alva Orr Jr., Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita Sr., Stephen Morris Sr.
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Proceedings Volume PC12907, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies XIX; PC1290708 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3003034
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2024, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
This presentation demonstrates the use of drop-on-demand printing for the fabrication of liquid crystal (LC) droplet devices tailored for a range of different applications. The presentation will begin with a demonstration of the printing of different LC inks in the form of nematic LCs and polymer-stabilized chiral nematic LCs. Results are presented to demonstrate how the latter can be printed as arrays to form switchable smart windows with embedded images. We then show how printed nematic LCs can be used to generate optical vortex beams under certain applied voltages and how they can be used to enable single-shot Stokes polarimetry.
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Mengmeng Li Jr., Steve J. Elston Sr., Chao He Sr., Waqas Kamal Sr., Xuke Qiu Jr., Alva Orr Jr., Alfonso A. Castrejón-Pita Sr., and Stephen Morris Sr. "Printing of liquid crystal droplets for functional optical elements", Proc. SPIE PC12907, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies XIX, PC1290708 (13 March 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3003034
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KEYWORDS
Liquid crystals

Printing

Optical components

Fabrication

Polarimetry

Windows

Polymers

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