Optical simulation of in-plane-switching blue phase liquid crystal display using the finite-difference time-domain method

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/9/094221

Abstract The finite-difference time-domain method is used to simulate the optical characteristics of an in-plane switching blue phase liquid crystal display. Compared with the matrix optic methods and the refractive method, the finite-difference time-domain method, which is used to directly solve Maxwell's equations, can consider the lateral variation of the refractive index and obtain an accurate convergence effect. The simulation results show that e-rays and o-rays bend in different directions when the in-plane switching blue phase liquid crystal display is driven by the operating voltage. The finite-difference time-domain method should be used when the distribution of the liquid crystal in the liquid crystal display has a large lateral change.

Keywords: finite-difference time-domain method blue phase liquid crystal display in-plane switching convergence effect

Received: 06 May 2016
Revised: 19 July 2016
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PACS:	42.79.Kr	(Display devices, liquid-crystal devices)
	61.30.Cz	(Molecular and microscopic models and theories of liquid crystal structure)
	61.30.Mp	(Blue phases and other defect-phases)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11304074, 61475042, and 11274088), the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, China (Grant Nos. A2015202320 and GCC2014048), and the Key Subject Construction Project of Hebei Province University, China.

Corresponding Authors: Yu-Bao Sun
E-mail: sun_yubao@163.com

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Hu Dou(窦虎), Hongmei Ma(马红梅), Yu-Bao Sun(孙玉宝) Optical simulation of in-plane-switching blue phase liquid crystal display using the finite-difference time-domain method 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 094221

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