Wall-Induced Pretransitional Birefringence: A New Tool to Study Boundary Aligning Forces in Liquid Crystals
- 2 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 43 (1), 51-54
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.43.51
Abstract
A wall-induced birefringence in a nematic liquid crystal above the nematic-isotropic phase transition point has been observed for the first time. It is expected that this phenomenon will provide a useful tool to study the nature of aligning forces at liquid-crystal-solid interfaces.Keywords
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