Abstract
It is well-known that liquid crystal (LC) molecules reorientate under the applied electric field due to their electric anisotropy. Nevertheless, the detailed mechanism of reorientation at molecular levels is not known. For further study of this reorientation mechanism, it is desirable to obtain information on the time course of the reorientation and the subsequent recovery, which is most suitably studied by time-resolved spectroscopy. In the present paper, μs-time-resolved infrared spectroscopy is applied to the study of the time response of 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) to the applied electric field.
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Urano, T., Sakamoto, M., Hamaguchi, H. (1992). Time-Resolved Infrared Study of Electric-Field-Induced Reorientation of Nematic Liquid Crystal Molecules. In: Takahashi, H. (eds) Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy V. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 68. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84771-4_82
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