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19 April 2024

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Electric-field-induced nematic-cholesteric transition and 3-D director structures in homeotropic cells
I.I. Smalyukh ; B.I. Senyuk ; P. Palffy-Muhoray ; O.D. Lavrentovich ; H. Huang ; E.C. Gartland, Jr. ; V.H. Bodnar ; T. Kosa ; B. Taheri ;
Date:	16 Dec 2005
Subject:	Soft Condensed Matter; Materials Science
Abstract:	We study the phase diagram of director structures in cholesteric liquid crystals of negative dielectric anisotropy in homeotropic cells of thickness d which is smaller than the cholesteric pitch p. The basic control parameters are the frustration ratio d/p and the applied voltage U. Fluorescence Confocal Polarising Microscopy allows us to directly and unambiguously determine the 3-D director structures. The results are of importance for potential applications of the cholesteric structures, such as switchable gratings and eyewear with tunable transparency based.
Source:	arXiv, cond-mat/0512365
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