Optical response of a nematic liquid crystal cell at splay-bend transition: model and dynamic simulation
Materials Science
2007-05-23 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We study dynamical optical response of a nematic liquid crystal cell that undergoes the splay-bend transition after applying the voltage across the cell. We formulate a simplified model that takes into account both the flexoelectric coupling and the surface rotational viscosity. The dynamic equations of the model were solved numerically to calculate temporal evolution of the director profile and the transmittance. We evaluate the response time as a function of a number of parameters characterising dielectric and elastic anisotropies, asymmetry of the surface pretilt angles, anchoring energy, surface rotational viscosity and flexoelectricity.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0407647,
title = {Optical response of a nematic liquid crystal cell at splay-bend transition: model and dynamic simulation},
author = {Peizhi Xu and Vladimir Chigrinov and Alexei D. Kiselev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0407647},
year = {2007}
}
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uses revtex4, 14 pages, 10 figures