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| Title: | Liquid crystal phase transitions induced by micro-textured substrates |
| Authors: | Qian, Tie-Zheng
Sheng, Ping |
| Keywords: | Liquid crystal phase transitions
Micro-textured substrates
Nematic liquid crystals
Landau-de Gennes theory |
| Issue Date: | Feb-1997 |
| Citation: | Proceedings of the Fourth Asian Symposium on Information Display (Feb 13-14, 1997), Hong Kong, HKUST, 1997. p. 37-39 |
| Abstract: | Through a numerical approach based on the Landau-de Gennes theory, we show that novel orientational states and phase transitions may be induced in nematic liquid crystals by micro-textured substrates, i.e., spatially mixed homeotropic, planar, or homogeneous alignment potentials. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/1014 |
| Appears in Collections: | PHYS Conference Papers
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