Light-induced pitch transitions in photosensitive cholesteric liquid crystals: Effects of anchoring energy
dc.citation.epage | 012503-10 | en_US |
dc.citation.issueNumber | 1 | en_US |
dc.citation.spage | 012503-1 | en_US |
dc.citation.volumeNumber | 89 | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Orlova, T. N. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Iegorov, R. I. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Kiselev, A. D. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-08T10:58:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-08T10:58:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.department | Department of Physics | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | We experimentally study how the cholesteric pitch P depends on the equilibrium pitch P0 in planar liquid crystal (LC) cells with both strong and semistrong anchoring conditions. The cholesteric phase was induced by dissolution in the nematic LC of the right-handed chiral dopant 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC, provitamin D3) which transforms to left-handed tachysterol under the action of uv irradiation at the wavelength of 254 nm. By using the model of photoreaction kinetics we obtain the dependencies of isomer concentrations and, therefore, of the equilibrium pitch on the uv irradiation dose. The cholesteric pitch was measured as a function of irradiation time using the polarimetry method. In this method, the pitch is estimated from the experimental data on the irradiation time dependence of the ellipticity of light transmitted through the LC cells. It is found that the resulting dependence of the twist parameter 2D/P (D is the cell thickness) on the free twisting number parameter 2D/P0 shows jumplike behavior and agrees well with the known theoretical results for the anchoring potential of Rapini-Papoular form. © 2014 American Physical Society. | en_US |
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dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.012503 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1539-3755 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/26375 | |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.012503 | en_US |
dc.source.title | Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics | en_US |
dc.subject | Anchoring energies | en_US |
dc.subject | Cell thickness | en_US |
dc.subject | Cholesteric phase | en_US |
dc.subject | Cholesteric pitch | en_US |
dc.subject | Irradiation time | en_US |
dc.subject | Liquid crystal cells | en_US |
dc.subject | Photoreaction kinetics | en_US |
dc.subject | UV irradiation | en_US |
dc.subject | Computer Simulation | en_US |
dc.subject | Energy Transfer | en_US |
dc.subject | Light | en_US |
dc.subject | Liquid Crystals | en_US |
dc.subject | Materials Testing | en_US |
dc.subject | Models, Chemical | en_US |
dc.subject | Models, Molecular | en_US |
dc.subject | Radiation Dosage | en_US |
dc.subject | Refractometry | en_US |
dc.title | Light-induced pitch transitions in photosensitive cholesteric liquid crystals: Effects of anchoring energy | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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