Electrically induced order variations, occurring in the microseconds timescale, in nematic liquid crystals are framed within the Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor theory. We provide a numerical model implemented with a moving meshfinite element method and describe the order dynamics in a symmetric π-cell subjected to very strong electric fields. Our simulations put in evidence bulk order reconstruction delocalisation and transient order lowering phenomenainduced by intense applied electric fields, as well as first and second order characteristics of the splay – bendtransition.
Nematic order and phase transition dynamics under intense electric fields / Amoddeo, Antonino; R, Barberi; G, Lombardo. - In: CA SELECTS: LIQUID CRYSTALS. - ISSN 0148-2351. - 40:6(2013), pp. 799-809. [10.1080/02678292.2013.783133]
Nematic order and phase transition dynamics under intense electric fields
AMODDEO, Antonino
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2013-01-01
Abstract
Electrically induced order variations, occurring in the microseconds timescale, in nematic liquid crystals are framed within the Landau-de Gennes Q-tensor theory. We provide a numerical model implemented with a moving meshfinite element method and describe the order dynamics in a symmetric π-cell subjected to very strong electric fields. Our simulations put in evidence bulk order reconstruction delocalisation and transient order lowering phenomenainduced by intense applied electric fields, as well as first and second order characteristics of the splay – bendtransition.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
