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A rotation mechanism of nematic cholesteric droplets in a DC electric field

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Dynamics of orientation transformations in nematic cholesteric droplets in isotropic environment under action of dc electric field is studied experimentally. The droplets are considered with an equilibrium pitch of the helix smaller than radius of a droplet. It has been shown that, the dynamics of the rotation motion of the droplets in the dc electric field is determined by a flexoelectic mechanism.

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  1. Institute of Molecule and Crystal Physics, Ufa Research Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Bashkortostan, 450075, Russia

    Yu. I. Timirov, O. A. Skaldin & E. R. Basyrova

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Original Russian Text © Yu.I. Timirov, O.A. Skaldin, E.R. Basyrova, 2015, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 7, pp. 62–65.

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Timirov, Y.I., Skaldin, O.A. & Basyrova, E.R. A rotation mechanism of nematic cholesteric droplets in a DC electric field. Tech. Phys. Lett. 41, 336–337 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785015040148

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