Shear electricity in cholesterics
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- Published by EDP Sciences in Journal de Physique
- Vol. 39 (6) , 639-644
- https://doi.org/10.1051/jphys:01978003906063900
Abstract
From symmetry considerations it is possible to deduce that velocity gradients ought to induce electric polarizations in cholesteric liquid crystals. We show that flexoelectricity can be responsible for such a phenomenonKeywords
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