title: Electro-optical Memory of a Nanoengineered Amorphous Blue-Phase-III Polymer Scaffold.
abstract: An electro-optical (EO) memory device is presented, which is based on a 3D nanostructured polymer scaffold of the amorphous blue phase III (BPIII) of cholesteric liquid crystals (LCs), which can impart optical isotropy, optical activity, and sub-millisecond EO response of BPIII to conventional nematic LCs. This functional scaffold also enables the first experimental observation of the long debated structure of BPIII.
authors.affiliation: Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, 1425 Lefton Esplanade, Kent, OH, 44242, USA. sgandhi6@kent.edu.
authors.forename: Sahil Sandesh
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Gandhi
authors.affiliation: Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, 1425 Lefton Esplanade, Kent, OH, 44242, USA.
authors.forename: Min Su
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, 1425 Lefton Esplanade, Kent, OH, 44242, USA.
authors.forename: Jeoung-Yeon
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.affiliation: Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, 1425 Lefton Esplanade, Kent, OH, 44242, USA. lchien@kent.edu.
authors.forename: Liang-Chy
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Chien
keywords: blue-phase-III liquid crystals; electro-optical memory; nanostructured; polymer scaffolds; sub-millisecond switching