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Paper No S3.1: Modeling of Liquid Crystal Structures (Invited Paper)
Author(s) -
Day Sally E.,
Nie Zijun,
Yang Mengyang,
Fernandez F. Anibal
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
sid symposium digest of technical papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2168-0159
pISSN - 0097-966X
DOI - 10.1002/sdtp.10549
Subject(s) - liquid crystal , position (finance) , tensor (intrinsic definition) , materials science , electrode , surface (topology) , optics , crystallography , chemical physics , chemistry , optoelectronics , geometry , physics , mathematics , finance , economics
Abstract Modeling of nematic liquid crystal structures using the tensor method are presented for various configurations. In particular defect formation at the edges of electrodes, which depend on alignment direction have been studied, as well as droplets of cholesteric liquid crystals, where the pitch must adapt to conform to the surface alignment of the droplet and the position of the defects at the poles.