Forming process and stability of bubble domains in dielectrically positive cholesteric liquid crystals
作者:
S. Pirkl,
P. Ribière,
P. Oswald,
期刊:
Liquid Crystals
(Taylor Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 13,
issue 3
页码: 413-425
ISSN:0267-8292
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1080/02678299308026314
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The nucleation of bubble domains in homeotropic samples of a dielectrically positive cholesteric liquid crystal is described. These domains are found to be more stable in an electric field than the rectilinear double-twisted fingers. The electric field-induced transformation of a looped finger into a bubble domain is described in detail: it is discontinuous and irreversible, and operates only at a large enough confinement ratioC=d/p, wheredis the sample thickness andpthe quiescent cholesteric pitch. Finally, in contrast with Stieb's model [4], we propose that there are two point defects along the bubble axis and not a disclination line.
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