Twin-like domains in chiral smectic C liquid crystals |
| |
Authors: | Monique Brunet Lubor Lej
ek Laurence Navailles Patrick Keller Tinh Huu Nguyen Eric Polossat Emmanuel Rouy |
| |
Affiliation: | Monique Brunet ,Lubor Lejč,ek,Laurence Navailles,Patrick Keller,Tinh Huu Nguyen,Eric Polossat,Emmanuel Rouy |
| |
Abstract: | In the chiral smectic C phase of liquid crystals with the phase transition N*-SmC*, texture development depending on the sample thickness is reported. In very thin samples, domains of rectangular-like shape are observed. As two possible tilts of smectic layers are possible for one anchoring direction, smectic layers inside a domain, called twin-like domains, are tilted with respect to layers in outer regions, similarly to crystalline planes in solid crystalline twins. An elastic model of such a twin domain is proposed and its energy determined. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 InformaWorld 等数据库收录! |
|