Electrowetting pixels with improved transmittance using dye doped liquid crystals

G. G. Wells; M. A. Matranga; C. J. P. Newton; T. S. Taphouse; S. A. Baig; S. C. Kitson

doi:10.1063/1.4813831

Electrowetting pixels with improved transmittance using dye doped liquid crystals

G. G. Wells, M. A. Matranga, C. J. P. Newton, T. S. Taphouse, S. A. Baig, S. C. Kitson

School of Engineering

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Abstract

Electrowetting display pixels have been created using a dye doped liquid crystal as the dielectric liquid in a simple electrowetting architecture. In addition to electrowetting, the dye doped liquid crystal reorients, giving two mechanisms to modulate the light. We show that realignment of the liquid crystal, due to the electric field, occurs both before and during electrowetting. The transmission of the pixel has been compared to the transmission of a pixel containing an isotropic liquid, using a simple mathematical model, and we show that electrical realignment of the LC improves the transmission of the pixel. We show a 6.8% gain in the transmission during electrowetting, and before electrowetting occurs.

Original language	English
Article number	031107
Number of pages	5
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	103
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4813831
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2013

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