Flexoelectric instability and a spontaneous chiral-symmetry breaking in a nematic liquid crystal cell with asymmetric boundary conditions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Palto, S P ^a   Mottram, N J ^b   Osipov, M A ^b  

^a SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHIRALITY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; ROTATION;

ASYMMETRIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHIRAL-SYMMETRY; FLEXOELECTRIC INSTABILITY; THRESHOLD VALUE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34547292569     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.061707     Document Type: Article

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