Damped curvature oscillations are excited at the surface between a nematic liquid crystal and a solid substrate, from the linear coupling of an AC electric field with the flexoelectric properties of the medium. The waves are detected by a modulation ellipsometry technique. Linear-in-field oscillations of the director in the surface nematic layer have been observed. The amplitude and characteristic response time of the oscillations are defined by visco-elastic and flexoelectric properties of the medium and the overlaping of the curvature wave with the profile of the sampling optical evanescent wave. A simple model is discussed which is in good agreement with experiments performed on a compensated MBBA mixture (with zero dielectric anisotropy...
The influence of the ions present in a liquid crystal on the dynamical response of a nematic slab su...
The attenuated total internal reflection (ATIR) conditions for a plane monochromatic wave, incident ...
The orientation of nematic liquid crystals in electrical fields is commonplace in flat-panel watch a...
Damped curvature oscillations are excited at the surface between a nematic liquid crystal and a soli...
Homeotropic nematic layers of MBBA have been studied by a phase-sensitive flexoelectric spectroscopy...
We describe a new flexoelectric volume effect in homogeneous electric field, in the nematic phase of...
Nematic phase gratings have been studied in which a planar nematic layer of thickness 17.2 μm is san...
We study experimentally the interaction of spatial optical solitons with curved dielectric surfaces ...
With the maturation of the soft matter physics-based system, liquid-crystal (LC) materials research ...
The Berreman-de Gennes model, describing the azimutal anchoring energy of a nematic material oriente...
A hybrid aligned nematic liquid crystal sample presents a bulk flexo-electric polarization P. The co...
Flexoelectricity in liquid crystals is thought to be due to a coupling between dielectric properties...
Flexoelectric effects are studied in the domain walls of a nematic liquid crystal device showing the...
On donne un modèle pour expliquer l'effet oscillatoire (bounce), après la coupure du champ, de la tr...
The pretilt angle controlled by electric field was studied by the modulation ellipsometry technique....
The influence of the ions present in a liquid crystal on the dynamical response of a nematic slab su...
The attenuated total internal reflection (ATIR) conditions for a plane monochromatic wave, incident ...
The orientation of nematic liquid crystals in electrical fields is commonplace in flat-panel watch a...
Damped curvature oscillations are excited at the surface between a nematic liquid crystal and a soli...
Homeotropic nematic layers of MBBA have been studied by a phase-sensitive flexoelectric spectroscopy...
We describe a new flexoelectric volume effect in homogeneous electric field, in the nematic phase of...
Nematic phase gratings have been studied in which a planar nematic layer of thickness 17.2 μm is san...
We study experimentally the interaction of spatial optical solitons with curved dielectric surfaces ...
With the maturation of the soft matter physics-based system, liquid-crystal (LC) materials research ...
The Berreman-de Gennes model, describing the azimutal anchoring energy of a nematic material oriente...
A hybrid aligned nematic liquid crystal sample presents a bulk flexo-electric polarization P. The co...
Flexoelectricity in liquid crystals is thought to be due to a coupling between dielectric properties...
Flexoelectric effects are studied in the domain walls of a nematic liquid crystal device showing the...
On donne un modèle pour expliquer l'effet oscillatoire (bounce), après la coupure du champ, de la tr...
The pretilt angle controlled by electric field was studied by the modulation ellipsometry technique....
The influence of the ions present in a liquid crystal on the dynamical response of a nematic slab su...
The attenuated total internal reflection (ATIR) conditions for a plane monochromatic wave, incident ...
The orientation of nematic liquid crystals in electrical fields is commonplace in flat-panel watch a...