Surface Deformation and Walls in the Conduction Regime of Nematic Liquid Crystals |
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| Authors: | R W H Kozlowski E F Carr |
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| Institution: | Department of Physics , University of Maine Orono , Maine, 04469, USA |
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| Abstract: | Reflection of a laser beam from the free surface of a nematic liquid crystal shows that the surface is periodically deformed when a high electric field (conduction regime) is continuously applied. Walls which appear to be of the alignment-inversion type have also been observed for these fields. These results are associated with flow cells that were discussed earlier. |
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