The role of defects and boundary and volume inhomogeneities in the field-induced director reorientation in nematic liquid crystals confined between parallel plates

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 517, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1387-1393

  Martins, A F ^a   Veron A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Boundary inhomogeneities; Confined nematics; Defects; Numerical simulation; Progressive mode

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; DEUTERIUM; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POWDERS;

BASIC SCIENCES; BOUNDARY INHOMOGENEITIES; COLLECTIVE MODES; CONFINED NEMATICS; DEUTERIUM NMR; DIFFERENT MODES; DIRECTOR DYNAMICS; DIRECTOR ORIENTATIONS; DIRECTOR REORIENTATIONS; DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; LONG WAVELENGTHS; LOW MOLECULAR MASSES; NEMATIC SAMPLES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARALLEL PLATES; PROGRESSIVE MODE; SPATIALLY PERIODIC; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS; WELL ALIGNED;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 56949093128     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2008.09.052     Document Type: Article

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