中国物理B ›› 2009, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (1): 238-245.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/1/039
苑梦尧1, 叶文江2, 邢红玉2, 杨国琛2
Ye Wen-Jiang(叶文江)a)†, Xing Hong-Yu(邢红玉)a), Yang Guo-Chen(杨国琛)a), and Yuan Meng-Yao(苑梦尧)b)
摘要: A grating surface can drive the liquid crystal molecules to orientate along the direction parallel or vertical to the projected plane of the grating surface. The nematic liquid crystal (NLC) cell manufactured with two pre-treated grating surface substrates may realize the vertical display, parallel display and twist display. In this paper, the threshold property of this NLC cell is investigated systematically. With the Frank elastic theory and the equivalent anchoring energy formula of grating surface substrate, the analytic expressions of the threshold voltage related to three displays are obtained, which are dependent on their geometrical parameters such as amplitude δ and pitch λ of the grating surface substrate. For a certain anchoring strength, the threshold voltage increases or decreases with the increase of the value δ/λ of the different displays.
中图分类号: (Liquid crystals)