SBIR/STTR Research Award
MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT FOR TWISTED SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
Award amount
$737,062Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1998Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- Licom Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Increasing demands are being placed on liquid crystal based devices that can switch fast and allows analog change in amplitude and phase at the same time. Through materials development, we propose to increase the speed of the recently demonstrated structure based on ferroelectric liquid crystals which combined the advantages of continuous variability of the nematic liquid crystals and the fast switching of the ferroelectric liquid crystals. This new structure would allow variable attenuation as well as continuous phase modulations with improved stability of the smectic structure. Devices based on these structures would be useful in a variety of applications where analogue and amplitude phase modulation are desirable, such as spectral filters and phase arrays.
Technology keywords
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