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Published on: October 31, 2019
Effect of elastic constants on electrically induced transition in twisted radial cholesteric droplets
Vladimir Yu Rudyak1, Mikhail N Krakhalev2,3, Anna P Gardymova3
1Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 119991. vurdizm@gmail.com.
Abstract:
In this work, we investigated the behavior of cholesteric droplets with homeotropic boundary conditions experimentally and by computer simulations. Small droplets forming twisted radial structures were studied. We obtained two different paths of structural transformations under electric field in such droplets. The choice between these paths has probabilistic nature. The ratio between the two transition types was found to be sensitive to the elastic constants of LC forming the droplet. We suggest the principal approach for in situ estimation of ratios between elastic constants in cholesteric LCs deposited in polymer-dispersed LC material and discuss its strong and weak sides.
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