TY - JOUR
T1 - Recovery of the electrically resistive properties of a degraded liquid crystal
AU - Lee, Wei
AU - Wang, Chun Tsai
AU - Lin, Chia Her
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank S.-T. Wu for comments on the manuscript. This work was financially supported by the National Science Council of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under Grant Nos. NSC 98-2918-I-033-001 and NSC 97-2113-M-033-003-MY2 .
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - Liquid crystals stored in vials and bottles are often found to degrade with time, trapping more and more ion impurity in the materials. Here we report on our identification of a major source causing such degradation and illustrate how the electrical properties of an old batch of liquid crystal can be restored by a regenerative agent. This approach, which is demonstrated to be quite efficient, entails simply soaking the agent in the liquid crystal.
AB - Liquid crystals stored in vials and bottles are often found to degrade with time, trapping more and more ion impurity in the materials. Here we report on our identification of a major source causing such degradation and illustrate how the electrical properties of an old batch of liquid crystal can be restored by a regenerative agent. This approach, which is demonstrated to be quite efficient, entails simply soaking the agent in the liquid crystal.
KW - Dielectric loss and relaxation
KW - Display devices
KW - Liquid crystals
KW - Liquid-crystal devices
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U2 - 10.1016/j.displa.2010.04.003
DO - 10.1016/j.displa.2010.04.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77955469268
VL - 31
SP - 160
EP - 163
JO - Displays
JF - Displays
SN - 0141-9382
IS - 3
ER -