Liquid‐crystal high‐frequency microwave technology: materials and characterization

DC Zografopoulos, A Ferraro… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ever since the advent of microwave technology, tunable devices, such as phase shifters,
resonators, and antennas, have been indispensable in applications requiring …

Liquid crystal metamaterial absorber spatial light modulator for THz applications

S Savo, D Shrekenhamer… - Advanced optical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A terahertz (THz) spatial light modulator implemented with metamaterial absorbers (MMAs)
functionalized with isothiocyanate‐based liquid crystals (LCs) is experimentally …

Liquid crystals for signal processing applications in the microwave and millimeter wave frequency ranges

R Camley, Z Celinski, Y Garbovskiy… - Liquid Crystals …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Liquid crystal technology has a long well-established history of applications in visible light,
primarily in the display industry. In contrast, applications at lower frequencies (microwave …

Large birefringence liquid crystal material in terahertz range

L Wang, X Lin, X Liang, J Wu, W Hu, Z Zheng… - Optical Materials …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We develop a fluorinated phenyl-tolane based nematic mixture NJU-LDn-4 and evaluate its
frequency-dependent birefringence utilizing terahertz time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) …

Liquid crystal terahertz modulator with plasmon-induced transparency metamaterial

J Wang, H Tian, Y Wang, X Li, Y Cao, L Li, J Liu… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
An electrically tunable terahertz (THz) modulator with large modulation depth and low
insertion loss is performed with liquid crystal (LC) metamaterial. The modulation depth …

[HTML][HTML] Highly birefringent, low-loss liquid crystals for terahertz applications

M Reuter, N Vieweg, BM Fischer, M Mikulicz, M Koch… - APL materials, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
With growing interest in switchable devices for the THz frequency range, there is a strong
demand for liquid crystals (LC) exhibiting both a high birefringence and a low absorption …

High-birefringence nematic liquid crystal for broadband THz applications

X Li, N Tan, M Pivnenko, J Sibik, JA Zeitler, D Chu - Liquid Crystals, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Liquid crystals (LCs) have been studied extensively in the visible range for their dielectric
tunability, and the characterisation in the terahertz (THz) range has gained increasing …

A hybrid tunable THz metadevice using a high birefringence liquid crystal

N Chikhi, M Lisitskiy, G Papari, V Tkachenko… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
We investigate a hybrid re-configurable three dimensional metamaterial based on liquid
crystal as tuning element in order to build novel devices operating in the terahertz range …

Selected fluorosubstituted phenyltolanes with a terminal group: NCS, CN, F, OCF3 and their mesogenic and dielectric properties and use for the formulation of high …

J Dziaduszek, R Dąbrowski, S Urban, K Garbat… - Liquid …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Thirty laterally fluorosubstituted new 4-isothiocyanato-, 4-cyano-, 4-fluoro-and 4-(1, 1, 1-
trifluorometoxy)-4′-(4-alkylphenyl) tolanes have been synthesised and their phase …

Numerical investigation of nematic liquid crystals in the THz band based on EIT sensor

PY Wang, T Jin, FY Meng, YL Lyu, D Erni, Q Wu… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
This paper introduces the concept of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) into the
permittivity extraction of an anisotropic material—nematic liquid crystal (NLC). A novel two …