Effective Medium Theory of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Droplet Systems II: Partially Oriented Bipolar Droplets

We construct a theory of the dielectric properties of a polymer dispersed liquid crystal droplet film containing bipolar droplets whose principal axes respond to an electric field. The theory involves a balance of an elastic energy term favouring an initial zero-field distribution of droplet axes an...

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Main Authors: Reshetnyak, Y (Author), Sluckin, T J (Author), Cox, S J (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 1997.
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