Director reorientation in a cell with time-dependent anchoring due to adsorption/desorption of LC molecules

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 422, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Romanenko, Alexander ^a   Pinkevich, Igor ^a   Reshetnyak, Victor ^a   Dozov, Ivan ^b   Stoenescu, Daniel ^b  

^a TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^b NEMOPTIC   (France)

Author keywords

Anchoring energy; Liquid crystals; Memory free alignment

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DESORPTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREE ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; VECTORS;

ANCHORING ENERGY; CELL SUBSTRATE; MEMORY-FREE ALIGNMENT; NEMATIC CELL FREE ENERGY;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 9144224857     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400490502517     Document Type: Article

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