A study is made of the formation of new planar regions during the electrohydrodynamic distortion of the cholesteric planar texture in liquid crystals with a negative dielectric anisotropy. With increasing voltage successive planar regions are observed which are associated with an increasing number of helices across the layer with steady planar boundary conditions. The resulting pitch contraction occurs via discontinuities which can be related to S = (1) disclinations. The stability of the new planar regions if favoured by a large negative dielectric anisotropy. The threshold voltage for the square grid perturbation of these induced textures is much larger than that predicted theoretically by Helfrich and Hurault, whose theory only holds for...
The deformations of homeotropic nematic layers induced by ac electric field of frequency f were stud...
[[abstract]]Direct experimental evidence is reported for non-uniform distortions of a cholesteric ar...
To understand the mechanism behind the pitch change during the transient planar to the planar state ...
Nous avons étudié l'influence de la contraction et de la dilatation du pas d'hélice sur la déformati...
Restricted Access.We describe a number of experiments to demonstrate the electromechanical effect in...
A more accurate calculation is given of both the striped perturbation pattern and the square grid pe...
We studied the formation of chi disclination lines in planar cholesteric samples placed in a tempera...
Electric-field-induced changes of the orientational structures of cholesteric liquid crystal layer w...
The deformation of liquid crystalline blue phases BPI and BPII under the influence of a weak electri...
We show that two types of fingers exist in homeotropic samples of cholesteric liquid crystals of pos...
The threshold characteristics of an instability in the form of longitudinal flexo-electric domains, ...
Parallel and cross-like domains due to d.c. and low frequency (< 2 Hz) electric fields, in nematic l...
We compute the flexoelectric distortion of a developable domain in a tubular discotic liquid crystal...
We studied the formation of χ disclination lines in planar cholesteric samples placed in a temperatu...
We have studied the behavior of a cholesteric liquid crystal sandwiched between two plates, with hom...
The deformations of homeotropic nematic layers induced by ac electric field of frequency f were stud...
[[abstract]]Direct experimental evidence is reported for non-uniform distortions of a cholesteric ar...
To understand the mechanism behind the pitch change during the transient planar to the planar state ...
Nous avons étudié l'influence de la contraction et de la dilatation du pas d'hélice sur la déformati...
Restricted Access.We describe a number of experiments to demonstrate the electromechanical effect in...
A more accurate calculation is given of both the striped perturbation pattern and the square grid pe...
We studied the formation of chi disclination lines in planar cholesteric samples placed in a tempera...
Electric-field-induced changes of the orientational structures of cholesteric liquid crystal layer w...
The deformation of liquid crystalline blue phases BPI and BPII under the influence of a weak electri...
We show that two types of fingers exist in homeotropic samples of cholesteric liquid crystals of pos...
The threshold characteristics of an instability in the form of longitudinal flexo-electric domains, ...
Parallel and cross-like domains due to d.c. and low frequency (< 2 Hz) electric fields, in nematic l...
We compute the flexoelectric distortion of a developable domain in a tubular discotic liquid crystal...
We studied the formation of χ disclination lines in planar cholesteric samples placed in a temperatu...
We have studied the behavior of a cholesteric liquid crystal sandwiched between two plates, with hom...
The deformations of homeotropic nematic layers induced by ac electric field of frequency f were stud...
[[abstract]]Direct experimental evidence is reported for non-uniform distortions of a cholesteric ar...
To understand the mechanism behind the pitch change during the transient planar to the planar state ...