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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 87, Issue 27, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.275505
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We report on a novel method of dynamically controlling the, boundary conditions at the surface of a nematic liquid crystal using a surface flexoelectric effect. By moving the surface directors we show that one is able to manipulate defects which lie near the surface. This can be used to produce switching of a nematic liquid-crystal device between two states with very similar free energies. This results in a bistable device that can retain either state with no applied voltage. Switching between the states occurs when the movement of the surface directors rotates those in the bulk which are then able to create or annihilate defects which lie near the surface of the device.
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