Electrical Parameters of Different Concentrations of Methyl Red in Fullerene Doped Liquid Crystal

Dielectric anisotropy and relaxation time of a liquid crystal (LC) system, containing fullerene and methyl red (MR) dye, were studied via impedance spectroscopy technique under a bias voltage. Dye concentration is tried to be 0.1%, 0.5%, and 1% in host nematic liquid crystal coded E7. Dielectric permittivity and dielectric anisotropy values of the samples were investigated between the frequency ranges of 100–10？MHz. It is seen that dielectric anisotropy is strongly affected by doping ratio and this value decreases with increasing dye. Also, relaxation time τ and critical frequency values were calculated depending on voltage of different dye ratios. 1. Introduction Liquid crystals (LC) are of primary importance in various device applications and their availability and compatibility with these applications are promising [1, 2]. Also various optimization works are carried out to acquire critical information about the device thickness, threshold voltage, cell geometry, and so forth [3]. Among the tried materials, methyl red (MR-) doped samples are exceptional due to the high nonlinearity of this dye and fullerene C60 balls are also shown to be efficiently compatible with this dye because of its strong impact on the charge carriers [4]. In the scope of this work, a further optimization is aimed for tailored MR + C60 doped LC systems according to the explicit effects of MR concentration on the electrical properties of the LC system. There are various works concentrating on the electro-optical characterization of LC [5]. Actually liquid crystals (LCs) are highly nonlinear materials due to their susceptible property activating under even relatively low frequency [6]. Electro-optical properties of any liquid crystal are important from the application point of view, because electro-optical properties are directly related to the structural and electronic properties [7]. Dielectric spectroscopy (DS) is the most preferred technique to understand molecular mechanisms and full electrical characterization to acquire and optimize device parameters such as relaxation time, dielectric anisotropy, and critical frequency at various bias voltage values. It this study, we have focused on the concentration effect of MR dye and fullerene doped nematic liquid crystal system. We have evaluated the dielectric character, relaxation parameter, and critical frequency as a function of frequency at various bias voltages. 2. Experimental The liquid crystal used in this experiment is E7 coded nematic LC, which was obtained from Merck. E7 is the commercial LC material, which has a