Traveling waves in twisted nematic liquid crystal cells |
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Authors: | A.V. Zakharov A.A. Vakulenko |
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Affiliation: | Saint Petersburg Institute for Machine Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg 199178, Russia |
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Abstract: | We have described a novel reorientation mechanism in the form of the traveling waves, under influence of an external electric field, directed parallel to both glass plates, which occur in the twisted nematic cell (TNC). It is found that the slowest velocity of the traveling front is proportional to the field strength, and, approximately, in three times higher than the front velocity corresponding to the non-traveling solution. The value of the critical electric field Ecr which may excite the traveling waves in the TNC in π times less than the value of the threshold electric field Eth corresponding to the untwisted geometry. |
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Keywords: | 61.30.Cz 64.70.Md |
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