摩擦基板间液晶薄层的分子场理论

提出一种新的表面作用势用于描写摩擦基板对液晶分子的作用.通过分子场理论研究摩擦基板间的液晶薄层,基板作用使液晶分子沿面平行排列.采用Lebwohl Lasher模型,将分子质心固定在简单立方晶格的格点上.对20个分子层构成的液晶薄层进行了数值计算.存在3种分子优先取向方向不同的状态,优先取向方向沿摩擦方向的状态具有最低自由能,并考虑了基板作用引起的双轴对称性.     

混合排列向列相液晶薄盒中–1/2向错引起的有序重构的扩散

基于Landau-de Gennes理论, 利用松弛迭代法, 研究了混合排列向列相液晶薄盒中–1/2向错引起的有序重构的扩散现象, 给出了–1/2向错的核结构、双轴性结构, 以及盒厚减小时有序重构的扩散. 当盒厚小于15ξ时, 随着盒厚的减小, 向错范围和有序重构区域沿基板方向迅速扩散; 当盒厚减小到临界厚度10ξ时, 有序重构的范围扩散到整个液晶盒中, 以向错中心所对应的平面为界, 指向矢一部分垂面排列, 另一部分沿面排列. 本文的研究对拓扑缺陷对向列相液晶中的亚微米胶体粒子的调节作用具有一定的理论指导意义. 关键词： 混合排列向列相液晶薄盒 –1/2向错 有序重构扩散 松弛迭代法     

丝状液晶预倾角的测量

一、引 言 各种液晶器件都以一定的分子定向排列为基础,要求有均匀一致的小角度沿面排列、小角度垂面排列或沿面排列与垂面排列结合.标志定向排列的参数是预倾角,即液晶指向矢与基片表面之间的夹角.预倾角的大小直接影响液晶器件的电光特性,如对比度、响应速度、视角特性、均匀     

掺杂对液晶磁场弗里德里克斯转变影响的探讨

采用相位延迟法，通过对分别掺入微量卟啉类物质、纤维蛋白质和双偶氮苯沿面排列5CB液晶磁场弗里德里克斯转变的实验和数值计算，从实验和原理上探讨了微量掺杂对沿面排列5CB液晶磁场弗里德里克斯转变的影响.数值计算结果与实验相符，呈现两种转变过程.研究表明，掺杂物的磁学性质不同、分子的形状和大小不同对液晶弗里德里克斯转变和弗里德里克斯转变阈值的影响不同.进一步的掺杂2-benzothiazolethiol-linked porphyrinatozinc(Ⅱ)实验说明了这种情况. 关键词： 液晶 掺杂 弗里德里克斯转变     

聚酰亚胺LB膜上液晶表面锚定的研究

通过测试光延迟研究了聚酰亚胺ＬＢ膜的光学各向异性，分析了在ＬＢ膜成膜过程中成膜分子的流动取向特性，并研究了液晶的表面锚定能，分析了ＬＢ膜上液晶的取向机制．聚酰亚胺ＬＢ膜的链段的取向程度较强摩擦情形的聚酰亚胺表面的链段取向要差．强摩擦的聚酰亚胺会比聚酰亚胺ＬＢ膜具有更好的排列液晶分子的能力．ＬＢ膜的流动取向模式使得聚酰亚胺成膜分子沿拉伸方向形成一定的有序排列，并诱导液晶分子定向排列，液晶和聚合物分子相互作用是液晶表面排列的主要动力 关键词：     

空间各向异性两体势向列相液晶形变研究

基于分子两体势研究向列相液晶的形变.该两体势是空间各向异性的并且依赖于液晶的弹性常数.理论处理中假定具有理想向列序，这意味着分子长轴取向方向与液晶指向矢是重合的，而总自由能等于总相互作用能.以解析形式研究了三种基本的Fréedericksz 转变并对混合排列向列相液晶盒中的指向矢分布进行了数值计算.检查了文献中最近提出的两种从弹性能到两体作用势的映射方案，发现只有一种方案给出的结果与连续体理论一致. 关键词： 空间各向异性两体势 理想向列序 液晶形变 Fréedericksz 转变     

苯乙烯基吡啶类液晶化合物的分子结构及相变过程的光谱研究

通过本乙烯基吡啶和不同脂肪羧酸间的氢键作用构成液晶的方法具有合成路线灵活、简便、易于变化的特点,本文通过变温红外光谱对做为质子受体的苯乙烯基吡啶粉液晶化合物的分子结构和相变过程中分子排列的变化进行了研究,结果表明在液晶分子中象羰基这样的偶极矩较大的极性基团,对分子所处的相态分子间的相互排列比较敏感。在红外光谱中羰基伸缩振动的变化可以看作是液晶分子相态转变的标志。     

相位延迟法液晶沿面排列瞬态热效应

用光学相位延迟法,以YAG短脉冲激光进行激励,对丝状液晶沿面排列的瞬态热效应进行了观测、记录,并对实验结果作了部分讨论．实验结果表明,热效应可能导致液晶分子的重新定向,但液晶中掺入偶氮苯类,光致异构杂质对热效应影响不大,而掺入手征性杂质却出现短暂记忆作用. 关键词：     

表面液晶-垂直腔面发射激光器温度特性的研究

本文利用向列相液晶层作为激光偏振调控单元,涂覆于垂直腔面发射激光器（VCSEL）表面,测量并分析了不同温度下VCSEL正交线偏振光的阈值电流、峰值光功率和I-P特性. 实验结果表明：温度为293 K时,涂覆液晶后激光偏振第一跳变点和第二跳变点之间的电流值ΔI增大了2.2 mA,比无液晶时增大1倍. 温度为313 K、注入电流为3 mA时,两种正交线偏振光的光功率差ΔP由133.6 μW增大到248.8 μW,进一步增加了线偏振光的各向异性. 表面液晶层的引入有效地扩大了VCSEL的正交线偏振态稳定范围和光功率差,为实现液晶VCSEL高温单偏振稳定的设计和器件制备提供了理论和实验基础. 关键词： 垂直腔面发射激光器 向列相液晶 偏振态     

采用液晶涂层测量介质流与壁面间剪切应力的定量模型与试验研究

流场中介质流与壁面间剪切应力的定量测量,在运动物体例如航天器等的表面流场观测与表面减阻等领域有重要意义.本文采用向列相液晶涂层技术针对介质流与固体壁面间的剪切应力展开定量测量.首先利用液晶弹性变形理论建立了向列相分子在剪切应力场作用下旋光性光强信号与剪切应力大小的定量模型;进而,在固体表面制备了5 CB与7 CB向列相液晶涂层,采用搭建的实验装置对不同剪切应力场下的测试涂层的光强进行了测试与理论模型的计算模拟,测试结果与定量模型相当吻合;进一步探讨了液晶涂层测试技术的极限剪切应力、灵敏范围以及涂层膜厚、分子弹性等关键影响因素.     

Langmuir-Blodgett film and nematic interface

The orientation induced by a Langmuir-Blodgett film on a Nematic Liquid Crystal (NLC) is theoretically analyzed. We show that the effective surface energy is due to different contributions connected with steric and van der Waals interactions between the nematic and the solid substrate. The analysis shows that the Langmuir-Blodgett film orientation depends on the surface density of the molecules. The initial homeotropic orientation may become unstable giving rise to a tilted film. The average orientation of the nematic molecules is also analyzed. We show that, in the event in which the steric interaction Nematic-Langmuir-Blodgett film is very large with respect to the dispersion interaction Nematic-Substrate, the nematic orientation coincides with the one of the film. On the contrary, when the two interactions are comparable, the orientation of the two media may differ. In particular, we analyze how the stable orientation depends on the surface molecular density of the film.     

Parameters of LC molecules’ movement measured by dielectric spectroscopy in wide temperature range

Dielectric properties of a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) mixture ZhK-1282 were investigated in the frequency range of 10²–10⁶Hz and a temperature range of ?20 to 80?°С. On the basis of the Debye’s relaxation polarization model dielectric spectra of temperature dependence of the orientational relaxation time τ and the dielectric strength δe were numerically approximated at the parallel orientation of a molecular director relative to alternating electric field. Influence of ester components in the mixture plays crucial role in relaxation processes at low temperature and external field frequency. The activation energy of the relaxation process of a rotation of molecules around their short axis was measured in a temperature interval of ?20 to ?+15?°С in which the dispersion of a longitudinal component of the dielectric constant takes place. The energy of potential barrier for polar molecules rotation in the mesophase was calculated. The value of the transition entropy from the nematic to isotropic phase was obtained from this calculation. The values of the coefficient of molecular friction and rotational diffusion were obtained by different methods. The experimental data obtained are in a satisfactory agreement with the existing theoretical models.     

Anchoring properties of substrate with a grating surface

The anchoring properties of substrate with a grating surface are investigated analytically. The alignment of nematic liquid crystal (NLC) in a grating surface originates from two mechanisms, thus the anchoring energy consists of two parts. One originates from the interaction potential between NLC molecules and the molecules on the substrate surface, and the other stems from the increased elastic strain energy. Based on the two mechanisms, the expression of anchoring energy per unit area of a projected plane of this grating surface is deduced and called the equivalent anchoring energy formula. Both the strength and the easy direction of equivalent anchoring energy are a function of the geometrical parameters (amplitude and pitch) of a grating surface. By using this formula, the grating surface can be replaced by its projected plane and its anchoring properties can be described by the equivalent anchoring energy formula.     

Influence of dipole-dipole correlations on the stability of the biaxial nematic phase in the model bent-core liquid crystal

A molecular theory of biaxial nematic ordering in the system of bent-core molecules has been developed in the two-particle cluster approximation which enables one to take into account short-range polar correlations determined by both electrostatic dipole-dipole interaction and polar molecular shape. All orientational order parameters and short-range correlation functions are calculated numerically as functions of temperature in the uniaxial and in the biaxial nematic phases, and the results are compared with the ones obtained in the mean-field approximation and in the cluster approximation but without taking into consideration the dipole-dipole interaction. It is shown that short-range polar correlations and, in particular, the dipole-dipole correlations dramatically increase the temperature of the transition into the biaxial nematic phase and enhancing its stability range. The results are also very sensitive to the value of the opening angle of a model bent-core molecule.     

Photoinduced Ordering Transition in Microdroplets of Liquid Crystals with Azo‐Dendrimer

Ordering transitions are observed in azo‐dendrimer‐dissolved nematic liquid crystal (NLC) droplets dispersed in a glycerol matrix. The dendrimer molecules are spontaneously attached at the interface between NLC and glycerol, so that the nematic directors orient perpendicular to the interface, in the radial configuration. Photoisomerization makes the directors be tangential to the interface, in a photoinduced ordering transition from radial to bipolar structure. Similar experiments are conducted both in cholesteric (Ch) and smectic‐A (SmA) LC droplets. Complicated photoinduced ordering transitions are also observed in Ch and SmA droplets, and the associated molecular orientation changes are discussed. Photoisomerizable azo‐dendrimer molecules provide a possible way to control orientation, even in microdroplet systems in which the interface cannot be treated by conventional surface agents.     

Temperature-induced orientational transition of nematics on the surface of a ferroelectric crystal

A temperature-induced orientational transition is investigated in a mixture of nematic liquid crystals on the surface of a cleavage of a ferroelectric triglycine sulfate crystal. The transition has been observed by the variation of the polarized absorbance components of a dye introduced into the nematic matrix with increasing temperature. The reorientation of molecules in the liquid crystal volume confined by solid walls is due to competition between dispersion and polar forces at the surface and the decrease in the electric field of the substrate up to its complete disappearance at the ferroelectric Curie point.     

Electrical Freedericksz transitions in nematic liquid crystals containing ferroelectric nanoparticles

A new theoretical approach was elaborated to explain the contradictions reported in many papers about the electric threshold for Freedericksz transition in nematic liquid crystal (NLC) with ferroparticles additives. The free energy density of the mixture was estimated and the contributions of the interaction energy of NLC molecules with ferroparticles surface were calculated. Experimental results for 5CB-BaTiO₃ mixture are given.     

Relation between the microscopic and macroscopic descriptions of the effect of a solid-substrate surface on a homeotropically aligned nematic liquid crystal

A simple microscopic mean-field model is proposed for a homeotropically aligned planar nematic liquid crystal (NLC) in contact with a solid-substrate surface. The intermolecular interaction in the NLC is simulated with the anisotropic McMillan potential, and the orienting effect of the substrate surface on the molecules in the NLC is described as that of an external field acting only on the first surface molecular layer of the sample. This model is used to describe the deformation of the director field of the sample caused by the external field and to determine the anchoring strength coefficient W, which is employed to macroscopically describe the orienting effect of the solid substrate on the NLC. The dependence of this coefficient on the strength of the short-range orienting field of the substrate surface used in the proposed microscopic model is found, and a unique correspondence between W and the profile of the orientational order parameter near the substrate surface is established. The temperature dependence of the anchoring strength coefficient is derived and found to agree well with experimental data for the MBBA NLC.     

A TWO PARTICLE CLUSTER THEORY FOR UNIAXIAL NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS FORMED BY BIAXIAL MOLECULES

A two-particle cluster theory is presented to study uniaxial nematic liquid crystals formed by biaxial molecules, which interact with each other via dispersion forces. The equation for the molecular orientational distribution functions in two-particle cluster approximation is obtained and is solved by an terativemethod. The temperature dependences of the order parameter and of the internal energy per particle are calculated, and the values of the relevant quantities at the nematic isotropic phase transition are given. The present theory, by taking into account the short range correlations between molecules , yields improved results compared with the mean field theory.     

Influence of the molecular structure of components on the induction of mesophases in nematic liquid crystal systems

The dielectric properties of nematic liquid crystals (NLC) are studied in the temperature range of mesophase existence with taking into account the peculiarities of the molecular structure of components. The dependence of the ordering parameter and activation energy on the temperature and composition of an LC system are obtained and investigated by analysis of EPR spectra based on the spin relaxation theory. The values of the local viscosity of the systems are estimated within the framework of the hydrodynamic model. The appearance of induced and reentrant mesophases is established. It is shown that in NLC systems with non-center-symmetric molecules the correlation between the activation energy and thermostability should be inverse to that in the Maier-Saupe model.