Brownian motors in the photoalignment of liquid crystals

International Journal of Engineering Science

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1077-1084

  Kosa, T ^a   Weinan, E ^b   Palffy Muhoray, P ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; IRRADIATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY;

BROWNIAN MOTOR; PHOTOALIGNMENT; RATCHET;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0033741096     PISSN: 00207225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7225(99)00107-X     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Tabiryan N.V., Sukhov A.V., Zel'dovich B.Ya. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. Special Topics XIX 136. 136:1986;1.
2. Janossy I., Lloyd A.D., Wherrett B.S. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 179:1990;1.
3. Gibbons W.M., Shannon P.J., Sun S.T., Swetlin B.J. Nature. 351:1991;49.
4. Gibbons W.M., Kosa T., Palffy-Muhoray P., Shannon P.J., Sun S.T. Nature. 377:1995;43.
5. A. Saupe, in: Fourth International Topical Meeting on the Optics of Liquid Crystals, Cocoa Beach, FL, 1991.
6. Astumian R.D., Bier M. Phys. Rev. Lett. 72:1994;1766.
7. Prost J., Chawin J.F., Peliti L., Ajdari A. Phys. Rev. Lett. 72:1994;2652.
8. R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton, M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1966 (Chapter 46).
9. Dean Astumian R. Science. 276:1997;917.
10. Faucheux L.P., Bourdieu L.S., Kaplan P.D., Libchaber A.J. Phys. Rev. Lett. 74:1995;1504.
11. Palffy-Muhoray P., Weinan E. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 320:1998;193.
12. Janossy I. Phys. Rev. E. 49:1994;2957.
13. Szabados L., Janossy I., Kosa T. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 320:1998;239.
14. Marusii T., Reznikov Y., Voloshchenko D., Reshetnyak V. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 351:1994;209.
15. T. Kosa, W. E, P. Palffy-Muhoray, to appear.