Dynamics of domain-wall motion in ferroelectric liquid crystals in an electric field |
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Authors: | A L Andreev I N Kompanets T B Andreeva and Yu P Shumkina |
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Institution: | 1.Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninski? pr. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia ; |
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Abstract: | The director reorientation in smectic liquid crystals with ferroelectric properties has been considered in the case where
the interaction of liquid-crystal molecules with the surface leads to a partial unwinding of the helical structure of the
liquid crystal and the reorientation occurs as a result of the domain-wall motion. The dependences of the velocity of domain-wall
motion on the electric field strength, electric field variation frequency, boundary conditions, spontaneous polarization,
and viscosity of the liquid crystal have been determined. It has been demonstrated that an increase in the electric field
variation frequency or the polar part of the anchoring energy and the spontaneous polarization of the liquid crystal at a
constant field frequency results in an increase of the velocity of domain-wall motion. As a consequence, the time of the electro-optic
response of the liquid crystal in weak electric fields (from 0.4 to 2.0 V/μm) decreases by a factor of more than three. |
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