Abstract

We have proposed reverse mode liquid crystal (LC) cells with a hybrid alignment nematic (HAN). A dual frequency LC which has positive and negative dielectric anisotropies and a reactive mesogen were used to prepare the cell. The reverse mode HAN cell has a transparent state at any incident angle in the voltage off state. The cell scattered a normal incident light by the voltage application and the transmittance, however, becomes high at a certain oblique incident angle like a louver of a window shutter. Such an incident angle can be switched by the frequency of applied voltage since the reoriented LC director changes from perpendicular to parallel to the substrate. Moreover, the incident angle switching was theoretically analyzed using conditions of refractive index matching and mismatching between the LC and the reactive mesogen.

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