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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-1-21
pubmed:abstractText
Hybrid films of the nematic liquid crystal penthylcyanobiphenyl (5CB) on the surface of glycerol were studied in the presence of an in-plane electric field. In this geometry there is a macroscopic flexoelectric polarization P(f) with a component in the film plane that couples linearly to the field. Here we report the electric field and film thickness dependence of the width of the 2pi reorientations (2pi walls) in the c director that are trapped by the field and interpret these observations based on continuum elastic theory. We find the difference between the flexoelectric coefficients to be e(1)-e(3)=+11 pC/m.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1539-3755
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
65
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
010701
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-10-31
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Flexoelectric polarization in hybrid nematic films.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama 2-12-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article