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...
Main Authors: | , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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AIP Publishing LLC
2015-10-01
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Series: | AIP Advances |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4934672 |