Low Magnetic Field Response in Ferronematics

• Authors: V. Gdovinová , N. Tomašovičová , V. Závišová , N. Éber , T. Tóth-Katona , F. Royer , D. Jamon , J. Jadzyn , P. Kopčanský
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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In this work the 4-n-hexyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl liquid crystal was doped with differently shaped magnetite nanoparticles. The structural changes were observed by capacitance measurements. Influence of the shape of magnetic particles on magnetic Fréedericksz transition depends on the type of anchoring, which is characterized by the density of the anchoring energy and by the initial orientation between the liquid crystal molecules and the magnetic moment of the magnetic particles. It was observed that in the case of doping with spherical particles, the critical magnetic field is shifted to higher values with increase of volume concentration of the magnetic nanoparticles but decreases with increase of biasing voltage. In the case of doping with rod-like particles, the critical magnetic field is almost independent of the volume concentration of the magnetic nanoparticles.

Keywords

EN

75.50.Mm; 61.30.Gd; 61.30.Hn

Discipline

• 61.30.Hn: Surface phenomena: alignment, anchoring, anchoring transitions, surface-induced layering, surface-induced ordering, wetting, prewetting transitions, and wetting transitions
• 61.30.Gd: Orientational order of liquid crystals; electric and magnetic field effects on order
• 75.50.Mm: Magnetic liquids

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 934-936

Dates

published

2017-04

Contributors

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V. Gdovinová

• Institute of Experimental Physics, SAS, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia

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N. Tomašovičová

• Institute of Experimental Physics, SAS, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia

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V. Závišová

• Institute of Experimental Physics, SAS, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia

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N. Éber

• Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary

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T. Tóth-Katona

• Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary

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F. Royer

• Université de Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France

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D. Jamon

• Université de Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, France

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J. Jadzyn

• Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

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P. Kopčanský

• Institute of Experimental Physics, SAS, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.131.934