DOMAIN INSTABILITIES IN LIQUID CRYSTALS

L. Blinov

A classification was given of the instabilities appearing in nematic, cholesteric, and smectic liquid crystals exposed to an electric or magnetic field. The basis of the classification is a type of the torque which destabilizes the distribution of molecular axes (director L). It was shown that the explanation of practically all the observed spatial periodic patterns (domains) can be given taking only three torques into account : the dielectric, flexoelectric and electrohydrodynamic.

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L. Blinov. DOMAIN INSTABILITIES IN LIQUID CRYSTALS. Journal de Physique Colloques, 1979, 40 (C3), pp.C3-247-C3-258. ⟨10.1051/jphyscol:1979348⟩. ⟨jpa-00218744⟩