Comparison of Different Liquid Crystal Materials under Planar and Homeotropic Boundary Conditions in Capillaries

• Authors: M. Chychłowski , S. Ertman , E. Nowinowski-Kruszelnicki , R. Dąbrowski , T. Woliński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We present a thermally-induced liquid crystal orientation method by applying an extra orienting layer onto an inner capillary surface that can induce either planar or homeotropic liquid crystal boundary conditions. Experimental evidence of boundary-induced orientation in two types of liquid crystal (nematic, chiral nematic) in a capillary are shown.

Keywords

EN

42.70.Df; 61.30.Jf; 77.84.Nh; 42.79.Kr

Discipline

• 77.84.Nh: Liquids, emulsions, and suspensions; liquid crystals(for structure of liquid crystals, see 61.30.-v)
• 42.79.Kr: Display devices, liquid-crystal devices(see also 85.60.Pg Display systems)
• 61.30.Jf: Defects in liquid crystals
• 42.70.Df: Liquid crystals(for structure of liquid crystals, see 61.30.-v)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 120
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 582-584

Dates

published

2011-10

Contributors

author

M. Chychłowski

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland

author

S. Ertman

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland

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E. Nowinowski-Kruszelnicki

• Military University of Technology, Gen. S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warszawa, Poland

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R. Dąbrowski

• Military University of Technology, Gen. S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warszawa, Poland

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T. Woliński

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.120.582