Comparison of Different Liquid Crystal Materials under Planar and Homeotropic Boundary Conditions in Capillaries |
| M.S. Chychłowskia, S. Ertmana, E. Nowinowski-Kruszelnickib, R. Dąbrowskib and T.R. Wolińskia
aFaculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland bMilitary University of Technology, Gen. S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warszawa, Poland |
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| We present a thermally-induced liquid crystal orientation method by applying an extra orienting layer onto an inner capillary surface that can induce either planar or homeotropic liquid crystal boundary conditions. Experimental evidence of boundary-induced orientation in two types of liquid crystal (nematic, chiral nematic) in a capillary are shown. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.120.582 PACS numbers: 42.70.Df, 61.30.Jf, 77.84.Nh, 42.79.Kr |