scholarly journals Computer simulation of the pulse-periodic electric field effect on the 2D director orientation of nematic liquid crystal. Experimental research of multimode nematic liquid crystal waveguides.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Ayriyan ◽  
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E.A. Ayryan ◽  
A.A. Egorov ◽  
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...  

In this paper, we numerically investigate a two-dimensional differential equation describing the motion of a director of a nematic liquid crystal for the case of an alternating external electric field. The presence of the previously discovered accumulation effect has been confirmed by numerical modeling. A comparison is made with the case of a constant electric field, and also a qualitative comparison with an experiment is given. Incomplete agreement with experimental data indicates the need for further research. However, it should be noted that the constructed mathematical model of the phenomenon allows at this stage to obtain estimates that are sufficiently acceptable for experiment and correctly predict the dynamics of processes in liquid crystals. An analysis of the features of the propagation of quasi-waveguide modes in a liquid crystal waveguide showed that, in the case of dynamic processes, such effects as power exchange between coupled modes, leakage of modes, re-emission of modes into modes of a different order, etc., can be observed. The programs for numerical solution and computer modeling of two-dimensional parabolic partial differential equation were developed both in FORTRAN and C/C++. The results obtained are important for further investigation of dynamic processes inside non-stationary liquid crystal layers, both from a theoretical point of view for understanding kinetic processes in liquid crystals and from a practical point of view when organizing and conducting different experimental research.

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (26) ◽  
pp. 1950319
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Xiaobo Lu ◽  
Chunfeng Hou

In this paper, we study the twist of the nematic liquid crystal molecules under the applied electric field. The dynamic equation of the twisted molecules is derived. It is proved to be a kind of sine-Gordon (SG) equation. We obtain the breather solution of the equation and confirm that the deflection angles of the twisted molecules can distribute in the form of breathers. We give the relationship between the molecular deflection angle and the breather frequency, and discuss the effect of electric field on breather shape and breather frequency.


1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 1390-1393 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Sasaki ◽  
M. Ishibashi ◽  
A. Tanaka ◽  
N. Shibuya ◽  
R. Hasegawa

A two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectrometer has been modified by the following methods to solve several problems on the 2D IR spectroscopy of electric-field-induced reorientation dynamics of a mixed nematic liquid crystal: (1) The response of the liquid crystal (LC) to an electric field was stabilized by an amplitude-modulated ac electric field. (2) Formulation of an anti-reflection coating (ARC) has been proposed to suppress the interference caused by multiple reflections between IR liquid crystal cell windows. (3) The Fourier transform procedure has been modified to correct the phase of the dynamic difference interferograms without spectral anomalies. These modifications can provide a better signal-to-noise ratio and reproducible 2D IR spectrum of a mixed nematic liquid crystal.


1972 ◽  
Vol 33 (C1) ◽  
pp. C1-63-C1-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. BERTOLOTTI ◽  
B. DAINO ◽  
P. Di PORTO ◽  
F. SCUDIERI ◽  
D. SETTE

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 4705-4717
Author(s):  
Zhang Qian ◽  
Zhou Xuan ◽  
Zhang Zhidong

Basing on Landau–de Gennes theory, this study investigated the chiral configurations of nematic liquid crystals confined to cylindrical capillaries with homeotropic anchoring on the cylinder walls. When the elastic anisotropy (L2/L1) is large enough, a new structure results from the convergence of two opposite escape directions of the heterochiral twist and escape radial (TER) configurations. The new defect presents when L2/L1≥7 and disappears when L2/L1<7. The new structure possesses a heterochiral hyperbolic defect at the center and two homochiral radial defects on both sides. The two radial defects show different chiralities.


Author(s):  
Cengiz Camci ◽  
Boris Glezer

The liquid crystal thermography can be successfully used in both transient and steady-state heat transfer experiments with excellent spatial resolution and good accuracy. Although most of the past liquid crystal based heat transfer studies are reported in the stationary frame, measurements from the rotating frame of turbomachinery systems exist The main objective of the present investigation is to determine the influence of rotation on the color calibration of encapsulated liquid crystals sprayed on the flat surface of a rotating aluminum disk. The investigation is performed for a rotational speed range from 0 rpm to 7500 rpm using three different liquid crystal coatings displaying red at 30, 35 and 45° C, under stationary conditions. An immediate observation from the present study is that the color response of liquid crystals is strongly modified by the centrifugal acceleration of the rotating environment. It is consistently and repeatedly observed that the hue versus temperature curve is continuously shifted toward lower temperatures by increasing rotational speed. The relative shift of the display temperature of the green can be as high as 7°C at 7500 rpm when compared to the temperature of the green observed under stationary conditions. The present study shows that relative shift of the liquid crystal color has a well-defined functional dependency to rotational speed. The shift is linearly proportional to the centrifugal acceleration. It is interesting to note that the individual shift curves of the green for all three liquid crystal coatings collapse into a single curve when they are normalized with respect to their own stationary green values. When the color attribute is selected as “intensity” instead of “hue”, very similar shifts of the temperature corresponding to the intensity maximum value appearing around green is observed. An interpretation of the observed color shift is made from a thermodynamics energy balance point of view.


2018 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 03002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Ayriyan ◽  
Edik Ayryan ◽  
Alexandre Egorov ◽  
Maria Dencheva-Zarkova ◽  
Georgi Hadjichristov ◽  
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A two-dimensional model of Fredericks effect was used for the investigation of the static electric field influence on nematic liquid crystal director orientation in the side-electrode cell. The solutions of the equations describing the model were obtained by finite-difference methods. Fredericks transition threshold for the central part of the cell, as well as dependencies of the distribution of the director orientation patterns on the electric field and location, were obtained. The numerical results are found to agree qualitatively with the experiment. Further investigations are needed to elucidate completely the Fredericks effect.


2002 ◽  
Vol 41 (Part 1, No. 7A) ◽  
pp. 4571-4576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Ho Hong ◽  
Hyang Yul Kim ◽  
Jae-Hyung Kim ◽  
Sang-Hee Nam ◽  
Myong-Hoon Lee ◽  
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