Photonic gaps in cholesteric elastomers under deformation

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2004-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408612v1

Phys. Rev. E 70, 011703 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.70.011703

Cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers have interesting and potentially very useful photonic properties. In an ideal monodomain configuration of these materials, one finds a Bragg-reflection of light in a narrow wavelength range and a particular circular polarization. This is due to the periodic structure of the material along one dimension. In many practical cases, the cholesteric rubber possesses a sufficient degree of quenched disorder, which makes the selective reflection broadband. We investigate experimentally the problem of how the transmittance of light is affected by mechanical deformation of the elastomer, and the relation to changes in liquid crystalline structure. We explore a series of samples which have been synthesized with photonic stop-gaps across the visible range. This allows us to compare results with detailed theoretical predictions regarding the evolution of stop-gaps in cholesteric elastomers.

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