Cavity and Reaction Fields in Anisotropic Dielectrics
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- liquid crystals
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 90 (3-4), 239-244
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268948308072452
Abstract
An ellipsoidal cavity arbitrarily oriented in an anisotropic dielectric is considered. The cavity field and the reaction field (for an homogeneous dipole density) inside the cavity are computed, and the general expressions are compared with those obtained by previous authors for particular geometries. The average local field acting on a molecule in non-polar liquid crystals is found to be linearly dependent upon the orientational degree of order.Keywords
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