We compute the flexoelectric distortion of a developable domain in a tubular discotic liquid crystal phase, submitted to a D.C. electric field. The strong radial polarization, related to the permanent bend of the tubes, does not contribute to the texture distortion, by symmetry. The tubes undergo simply a divergence distortion, the tube circles being shifted from one to another, towards the field. The effect is observed in hexapentoxytriphenylene, close to the transition temperature to the isotropic phase. Interference fringes in polarized light shift away from and towards the core of the developable domain, under the action of a 1 Hz electric field. The ratio of flexo to elastic constants (for the 2D hexagonal tube crystal) is of order 10-...
The investigations carried out in this thesis involve the characterization and the manipulation of d...
Nematic phase gratings have been studied in which a planar nematic layer of thickness 17.2 μm is san...
Flexoelectricity in liquid crystals is thought to be due to a coupling between dielectric properties...
We compute the flexoelectric distortion of a developable domain in a tubular discotic liquid crystal...
a étudié les caractéristiques de seuil d’une instabilité dans la forme des domaines flexoélectriques...
The threshold characteristics of an instability in the form of longitudinal flexo-electric domains, ...
A rich variety of symmetric and non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers have been synthesised . and stud...
We describe a new flexoelectric volume effect in homogeneous electric field, in the nematic phase of...
The flexoelectrooptic effect in cholesteric liquid crystals is based on a linear coupling of the med...
We show that the flexoelectric part of the spontaneous polarization in chiral smectic C* liquid crys...
Flexoelectricity may have an important impact on the switching properties of nematic and cholesteric...
Flexoelectric effects are studied in the domain walls of a nematic liquid crystal device showing the...
With the maturation of the soft matter physics-based system, liquid-crystal (LC) materials research ...
We present an analytic calculation of the normal modes of distortion induced by a small transverse A...
A key requirement for the exploitation of the chiral-flexoelectrooptic effect in technology is the d...
The investigations carried out in this thesis involve the characterization and the manipulation of d...
Nematic phase gratings have been studied in which a planar nematic layer of thickness 17.2 μm is san...
Flexoelectricity in liquid crystals is thought to be due to a coupling between dielectric properties...
We compute the flexoelectric distortion of a developable domain in a tubular discotic liquid crystal...
a étudié les caractéristiques de seuil d’une instabilité dans la forme des domaines flexoélectriques...
The threshold characteristics of an instability in the form of longitudinal flexo-electric domains, ...
A rich variety of symmetric and non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers have been synthesised . and stud...
We describe a new flexoelectric volume effect in homogeneous electric field, in the nematic phase of...
The flexoelectrooptic effect in cholesteric liquid crystals is based on a linear coupling of the med...
We show that the flexoelectric part of the spontaneous polarization in chiral smectic C* liquid crys...
Flexoelectricity may have an important impact on the switching properties of nematic and cholesteric...
Flexoelectric effects are studied in the domain walls of a nematic liquid crystal device showing the...
With the maturation of the soft matter physics-based system, liquid-crystal (LC) materials research ...
We present an analytic calculation of the normal modes of distortion induced by a small transverse A...
A key requirement for the exploitation of the chiral-flexoelectrooptic effect in technology is the d...
The investigations carried out in this thesis involve the characterization and the manipulation of d...
Nematic phase gratings have been studied in which a planar nematic layer of thickness 17.2 μm is san...
Flexoelectricity in liquid crystals is thought to be due to a coupling between dielectric properties...