dc.contributor.author | Jewell, Sharon A. | en_GB |
dc.contributor.author | Sambles, J. Roy | en_GB |
dc.contributor.department | University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-07-14T16:01:08Z | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-25T11:54:08Z | en_GB |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-20T13:25:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003-05-06 | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | The optical convergent-beam technique has been used to measure the changing director profile in a 4.6 µm ZLI-2293 filled hybrid aligned nematic cell when a 7 Vrms ac voltage was removed. The relaxation process has been recorded in 0.3 ms time steps allowing the detailed director backflow occurring in the initial 9 ms of the reorientation process to be quantified. The measured tilt profiles over the 60 ms total relaxation period were compared to model tilt profiles produced using the Leslie–Eriksen–Parodi theory, and excellent agreement was found. Further analysis shows that the backflow is dominated by the viscosity coefficient η1 and the overall relaxation is governed by the coefficient γ1. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 82 (19), pp. 3156-3158 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1063/1.1573336 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10036/31959 | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | American Institute of Physics | en_GB |
dc.subject | nematic liquid crystals | en_GB |
dc.subject | organic compounds | en_GB |
dc.subject | molecular orientation | en_GB |
dc.title | Backflow in the relaxation of a hybrid aligned nematic cell | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2008-07-14T16:01:08Z | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2011-01-25T11:54:08Z | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2013-03-20T13:25:15Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0003-6951 | en_GB |
dc.description | Copyright © 2003 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters 82 (2003) and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/82/3156/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Applied Physics Letters | en_GB |