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The effect of light on the conformational composition of low- and high-molecular (fifth-generation dendrimer) azobenzene dyes in a nematic host is studied. The orientational optical response of the nematic liquid crystal (NLC), caused by the presence of these compounds in the nematic host, is measured. The contributions of isomers to the orientational optical torque affecting the NLC director are determined. The results obtained suggest that the increase in the optical orientation efficiency in NLCs when using high-molecular dopants instead of low-molecular ones is unrelated to the difference in their conformational composition in the light field, but is caused by deceleration of orientational motion of chromophores.
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Original Russian Text © I.A. Budagovsky, A.S. Zolot’ko, M.P. Smayev, S.A. Shvetsov, N.I. Boiko, 2016, published in Kratkie Soobshcheniya po Fizike, 2016, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 45–53.
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Budagovsky, I.A., Zolot’ko, A.S., Smayev, M.P. et al. Orientational optical torque in a nematic liquid crystal, caused by trans- and cis-isomers of low- and high-molecular compounds. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 43, 179–183 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335616050067
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