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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 96, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3357420
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cholesteric liquid crystals; electro-optical effects; flexoelectricity
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Due to flexoelectricity, a cholesteric liquid crystal unidirectionally aligned in a sandwich cell, with its helix lying parallel to the confining cell substrates, exhibit a flexoelectro-optic response when subjected to an electric field applied perpendicular to the helix axis. The clarity of the flexoelectro-optic response is dependent on the quality of the uniformly lying helix texture of the cholesteric which often is difficult to achieve. Herein, a method for alignment of a short pitch cholesteric in such a texture by means of a periodic surface anchoring condition with periodicity matching that of the cholesteric liquid crystal is described.
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