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| Title: | A new threshold flexoelectric instability in nematic liquid crystals |
| Authors: | Raghunathan, V.A.
Madhusudana, N.V. |
| Issue Date: | 1989 |
| Publisher: | Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. |
| Citation: | Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Letters, 1989, Vol.6, p103-111 |
| Abstract: | We predict a new type of flexoelectric instability in a homogeneously aligned nematic liquid crystal under a DC electric field. The instability sets in at a critical value of the field applied normal to the undistorted director and in the plane parallel to the bounding plates. It is characterized by a uniform non-planar distortion of the director field involving both polar angles θ and Φ and has a threshold lower than that of the- twist Freedericksz transition. |
| Description: | Restricted Access. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/2352 |
| ISSN: | 0140-6566 |
| Copyright: | 1989 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) N.V. |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (SCM)
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