Antiferroelectric liquid crystal on silicon

Author

Underwood, I. ; Vass, D.G. ; Newsam, M.I. ; Oton, J.M. ; Quintana, X. ; Chan, L. ; Flannigan, N. ; Swedenkrans, G. ; Rampin, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Edinburgh Univ., UK

fYear

2000

fDate

24-28 July 2000

Abstract

We have explored the two combinations of tristate antiferroelectric liquid crystal on silicon, and thresholdless antiferroelectric (or V-shaped) liquid crystal on silicon. The primary aim of our work has been to characterise the suitability of such materials for use on reflective silicon backplanes and to design and evaluate an AFLCoS microdisplay.

Keywords

antiferroelectric liquid crystals; driver circuits; light valves; liquid crystal displays; optical backplanes; smart pixels; spatial light modulators; SLM; Si; V-shaped liquid crystal; antiferroelectric liquid crystal on silicon; drive scheme; electro-optical characterization; microdisplay; reflective silicon backplanes; thresholdless antiferroelectric liquid crystal; tristate antiferroelectric liquid crystal; Amplitude modulation; Backplanes; Circuit testing; Crystalline materials; Ferroelectric materials; Liquid crystal on silicon; Microdisplays; Optical modulation; Phase modulation; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic-Enhanced Optics, Optical Sensing in Semiconductor Manufacturing, Electro-Optics in Space, Broadband Optical Networks, 2000. Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

Conference_Location

Aventura, FL, USA

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6252-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2000.869682

Filename

869682