New surface order reconstruction induced by electric field application in a nanoconfined HAN cell with a topological defect

In accordance with the 2D Landau–de Gennes tensorial formalism, we investigated the influence of an applied electric field E parallel to the defect line on the position and structure of a nematic line defect with topological charge M = − 1/2 in a hybrid alignment nematic cell with different cell ga...

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Main Authors: Yongchao Wang, Xuan Zhou, Wenjiang Ye, Zhidong Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2015-10-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4934672