Electro-optical characteristics of holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal gratings doped with nanosilver
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- 21 October 2013
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 52 (31) , 7411-7418
Abstract
We report on the synthesis and characteristics of a holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (H-PDLC) switchable grating based on nano-Ag particles. The influence of doping different concentrations of nano-Ag on the diffraction efficiency, driving voltage, and response time of the H-PDLC grating is investigated. The best grating characteristics were achieved with 0.05% nano-Ag doping. Calculated and experimental results reveal that the improvement of the characteristics is likely due to the surface plasmon effect of nano-Ag.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China (60801041)
- Shanghai Key Subject Construction funding (s30502)
- The Development Fund for Shanghai Talents (2012026)
- The Innovation Fund Project for Graduate Student of Shanghai (JWCXSL1202)
- the Key Research Project from Shanghai Education Committee (14ZZ138)
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