Bistability behavior of texture in cholesteric liquid crystals in an electric field
- 1 July 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 25 (1), 5-7
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1655274
Abstract
With the homeotropic boundary condition, the field‐induced cholesteric‐to‐nematic texture transition can show a large hysteresis effect such that at the same field strength either the cholesteric or the nematic texture is stable.Keywords
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