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Electrooptics of hybrid aligned nematics in the regime of flexoelectric instability

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Flexoelectric instability was observed in a hybrid aligned nematic liquid crystal layer with the director having planar orientation at one substrate and homeotropic at the other substrate. The threshold and contrast characteristics of the electrooptical cell and the differential flexoelectric coefficient e=e 11–e 33 for this configuration were determined. The e value is in good agreement with theoretical predictions and experimental data obtained by different methods.

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  1. Institute of Molecular and Crystal Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia

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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 30, No. 16, 2004, pp. 36–40.

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Delev, V.A., Skaldin, O.A. Electrooptics of hybrid aligned nematics in the regime of flexoelectric instability. Tech. Phys. Lett. 30, 679–681 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1792312

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