A model of an aligned nematic droplet for small angle light scattering study
- 1 December 1996
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 80 (11) , 6155-6159
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.363689
Abstract
An aligned nematic droplet in the axial configuration is modeled as a hollow spheric scatterer for studying its small angle light scattering characters. When the thickness of the shell is reduced by an external field, calculations by anomalous diffraction approximation suggest that scattering intensity would decrease and scattering peak would drift to a smaller angle. Measured angular scattering intensities show good agreement with calculations. As the shell part originates from anchoring of the nematic molecules to the surrounding medium, angular scattering intensity can be associated with correlation length.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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