Host: The Japanese Liquid Crystal Society
Name : Japanese Liquid Crystal Conference 2021
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : September 15, 2021 - September 17, 2021
An azobenzene is one of photochromic compounds, and is well known to show trans-cis photoisomerization by irradiation of light with appropriate wavelength. One can control the molecular orientation of host liquid crystals by using this photoisozerization of the azobenzene compound doped. I will talk on the applications of this phenomenone for optical devices.