Levitation, lift, and bidirectional motion of colloidal particles in an electrically driven nematic liquid crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Pishnyak, O P ^a   Tang, S ^a   Kelly, J R ^a   Shiyanovskii, S V ^a   Lavrentovich, O D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ELASTIC REPULSION; NEMATIC BACKFLOW; SOLID PARTICLES;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 34748834615     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.127802     Document Type: Article

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