Chevron structures in surface-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals
- 1 April 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 77 (7) , 3023-3028
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.358651
Abstract
The computation of director profiles and energy parameters in surface‐stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal structures requires the evaluation of many terms accounting for different contributions to the general solution. This evaluation is usually performed using several simplifications and assumptions adapted to the specific phenomenon under study. In this work, a comprehensive expression including all possible terms not avoiding a computable solution is presented. The effect of every term on the general expression is analyzed.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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