Relationship between Molecular Orientation and Optical Memory Angle of Surface-Stabilized Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 30 (2R) , 335-338
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.30.335
Abstract
The relationship between the molecular orientation and the optical memory angle of the surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals was investigated. We have numerically calculated the optical memory angle based on two models of director orientations, the n-director continuous and c-director continuous models, varying the surface pretilt and nonlinearity of deformation of the azimuthal angle and compared the calculation results with the measured memory angle of some FLC samples.Keywords
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