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Title: | Structure of planar solitons in nematic and smectic liquid crystals |
Authors: | Narayanan, Andal Ranganath, G.S. |
Issue Date: | Mar-1996 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Citation: | Liquid Crystals, 1996, Vol.20, p321 - 330 |
Abstract: | We have undertaken a theoretical study on the structure of planar solitons in nematic and smectic liquid crystals. In nematics we find a soliton solution which can be looked upon as an intertwine between two solitons. In a nematic obtained by unwinding a cholesteric and in a nematic with very high dielectric anisotropy, we have worked out energetics of solitons. A 2b.pi soliton in a ferronematic or a smectic C becomes unstable due to the splay bend elastic anisotropy. The structures of b.pi solitons in smectic A and smectic C in the neighbourhood of a SA-SC phase transition have also been studied. |
Description: | Restricted Access. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/2877 |
ISSN: | 0267-8292 1366-5855 (Online) |
Alternative Location: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678299608032041 |
Copyright: | 1996 Taylor & Francis |
Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (SCM) |
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