Alignment-Inversion Walls in Nematic Liquid Crystals in the Presence of a Magnetic Field
- 25 November 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 21 (22), 1518-1521
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.21.1518
Abstract
It is shown theoretically that nematic liquid crystals in magnetic fields may display alignment inversion walls partially similar to Bloch and Néel walls in ferromagnetics.Keywords
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