Coherent transmission and angular structure of light scattering by monolayer films of polymer dispersed liquid crystals with inhomogeneous boundary conditions |
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Authors: | V A Loiko U Maschke V Ya Zyryanov A V Konkolovich A A Miskevich |
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Institution: | 1.B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics,National Academy of Sciences of Belarus,Minsk,Belarus;2.Laboratoire de Chimie Macromoléculaire, UMR CNRS No. 8009,Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille,Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex,France;3.Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch,Russian Academy of Sciences,Krasnoyarsk,Russia |
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Abstract: | We consider monolayer polymer films with oriented droplets of a nematic liquid crystal (LC). Relations for the coherent transmission
coefficients of a layer of oriented ellipsoidal droplets and for the intensity of light scattered by monolayers of spherical
and spheroidal droplets have been obtained. The amplitude-phase screen model and the interference approximation of the theory
of multiple wave scattering have been used. To describe light scattering by an individual ellipsoidal droplet with inhomogeneous
surface binding, we have developed an anomalous diffraction approximation. For monolayers of spherical LC droplets, the coherent
scattering coefficients and the angular scattering structure have been analyzed. The internal structure of nematic droplets
have been calculated by the relaxation method based on the solution of the minimization problem of the free energy volume
density. We have studied basic regular features of light scattering by a monolayer with homogeneous and inhomogeneous boundary
conditions at the LC-polymer interface. We show that, for films that contain droplets with inhomogeneous boundary conditions
of the tangentially normal type, the angular structure of the scattered light is asymmetric with respect to the polar scattering
angle. |
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