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Threshold voltages and optical retardation of deformed flexoelectric nematic layers with asymmetric surface anchoring

Derfel G., Buczkowska M.

Opto-Electronics Review

2013

Vol. 21, No. 2

205-209

Deformations of homeotropically aligned flexoelectric nematic layers induced by dc electric fields were simulated numerically. Two different anchoring strengths on the limiting surfaces were assumed. Nematic material was characterised by negative dielectric anisotropy. Both signs of the sum of flexoelectric coefficients were taken into account. The electric properties of the layer were described in terms of a weak electrolyte model. Mobility of cations was assumed to be one order of magnitude lower than that of anions. Quasi-blocking electrode contacts were assumed. The threshold voltages for deformations were determined by means of calculations of the phase difference Φ between ordinary and extraordinary light rays passing through a layer placed between crossed polarisers. The threshold values depended on the polarity of the bias voltage U. When the threshold value was exceeded, the phase difference increased with the voltage. Two different Φ(U/Uthreshold) dependencies for the two polarities of the voltage were found for each layer if the nematic possessed the flexoelectric properties. The possibility of using this effect to detect the flexoelectricity in the nematic was explored by simulated experiments. The effectiveness of the proposed method is discussed.

Interpretation of light depolarization data in terms of polymer crystallinity

Ziabicki A., Misztal-Faraj B.

Materials Science Poland

2006

Vol. 24, No. 2/2

493--505

Theoretical principles of light depolarization technique (LDT) have been analysed. It has been shown that the traditional way of interpretation assuming a linear relationship between depolarization ratio, average optical retardation of a single birefringent plate, D, and volume fraction of crystalline material (crystallinity) is incorrect. An exact non-linear relationship between depolarization ratio and the product DE (E is average number of plates in the light path) has been derived. The parameter DE has been shown to be proportional not to the crystallinity alone but to the product of crystallinity and average crystal thickness, (x). A method of decoupling light depolarization data, based on measurements at different sample orientations and different wavelengths, has been outlined.