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Anchoring Properties of Nematic Liquid Crystals Studied Using the Attenuated Total Reflection Method
Authors:Li Chang   Jing-An Zhao  Xin-Jiu Wang
Affiliation: a Liquid Crystal Research Group, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Abstract:By using the attenuated total reflection method associated with the excitation of surface plasmons, the tilt angle of the liquid crystal director and its gradient at the surface are measured in a planar nematic cell as a function of the applied voltage. The surface anchoring anisotropy δπ of the liquid crystal and the surface elastic constant ks, are found to be δπ = 0.288 erg/cm and ks, = 9·12 × 10-11 erg, respectively, when the boundary condition suggested by Barbero et al is used. The theoretical and experimental values obtained with this boundary condition and that of Mada are discussed. The results show that the boundary condition proposed by Barbero et al is in better agreement with the experiment.
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