• 文献标题:   Graphene/Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal-Based Electro-Driven Thermochromic Light Modulators toward Wide-Gamut Dynamic Light Color-Tuning-Related Applications
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHOU F, LAN RC, LI Z, LIU BY, XIE Q, BAO JY, LIU JL, GAO P, YANG H, ZHANG YF, LIU ZF
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, glass hybrid, chemical vapor deposition, transparent heater, cholesteric liquid crystal, color filter, smart window
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c01118 EA MAY 2023
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Light filters are ubiquitous in projection and display while those enabling wide-gamut dynamic light color tuning are still lacking. Herein, by combining the electro-heating capability of graphene and unique optical properties (thermochromism and circular dichroism) of small-molecule-weight cholesteric liquid crystal (ChLC), a brand-new thermochromic light modulator is constructed as actively tunable color filter. Transparent graphene/glass hybrid with reasonably high conductivity serves both as a high-performance heater for actuating the thermochromism of temperature-responsive ChLC and as neutral light attenuator for brightness control. Thanks to the temperature- and polarization-dependent spectral properties of the ChLC, widely tunable hue and saturation properties of transmission light color are achieved, respectively. Several intriguing applications, e.g., color-variable smart windows for backlight color tuning and color-variable filters for photography, are also demonstrated. This work hereby provides new paradigms for promoting the applications of graphene/ChLC-based light modulators in next-generation light-management-related scenarios.