Electro-optical properties of ionic liquid crystals with electrochromic admixtures

In this work we provided the investigations of electrooptical properties of liotropic ionic liquid crystals (LILC) doped with electrochromic admixture, namely with viologen. It was shown that under applying of electric field to LILC-viologen the electrochromic effect is observed. It manifests itself in colour change and in appearance of absorption bands on optical spectra. The action of the electric field also leads to the change of electric properties of the samples and to the change of parameters ofdouble electric layers existing near electrodes.© (2004) COPYRIGHT SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering. Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.