Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials
Professor Hideo Takezoe
Researh Field: Liquid Crystals, Organic Thin Films, Organic Functional Materials, Nonlinear Optics
Keywords: Liquid Crystal, Nonlinear Optics, Optical Functional Device
homepage: http://www.op.titech.ac.jp/lab/Take-Ishi/
E-mail: htakezoe@o.cc.titech.ac.jp
Phone: 03-5734-2436@FaxF03-5734-2876
Present Research Fields and Aim
@We are studying liquid crystals (LCs) to develop new frontier of LC science and functional devices based on physics and chemistry of LCs. We opened new era of LC science by the discoveries of new phases such as anitferroelectric and its subphases, chiral cubic phase and many phases of bent-core mesogens by introducing novel intermolecular interactions. As for applications, we are conductiong a variety of trials such as tunable laser utilizing photonic effect of dye-doped cholesteric LCs, electro-optic effect and optical swiches using bent-core and antiferroelectric LCs and optical nano-structured devices using photocurable LCs.
Topics
1. Lasing from dye-doped photonic structure
2. Physical properties and applications of bent-core mesogens
3. Formation of novel phases by chiral recognition
4. Optical devices using photocurable liquid crystals
5. Orientation of liquid crystal molecules on substrate surfaces
Texture of new W-shaped LC
Dynamic response of diffraction grating of photocurable LC
Microstructure analysis in bent-core mesogen
Lasing from dye-doped cholesteric LC