Defect trajectories and domain-wall loop dynamics during two-frequency switching in a bistable azimuthal nematic device

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

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Davidson, A J ^a   Brown, C V ^b   Mottram, N J ^a   Ladak, S ^b   Evans, C R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISTABLES; DIRECTOR REORIENTATION; DUAL FREQUENCY; DYNAMIC SWITCHING; ERICKSEN-LESLIE THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FREQUENCY SWITCHING; LOOP DYNAMICS; MICROMETER-SCALE CHANNELS; NEMATIC DEVICES; OPTICAL TEXTURE; Q-TENSOR; STABLE STATE; SWITCHING PROCESS; WAVE FORMS;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SURFACE DEFECTS; TEXTURES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77953347315     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.051712     Document Type: Article

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