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A numerical method has been developed for calculating the director configuration in ellipsoidal droplets of a nematic liquid crystal with strong tangential anchoring in a uniform magnetic field of an arbitrary orientation. A relation has been obtained for determining the Friedericksz threshold corresponding to the beginning of the reorientation of the central region of a droplet when the field is orthogonal to the biopolar axis. The effect of the breaking of the orthogonal condition on the threshold character of the orientation process is considered. The reorientation of the ensemble of bipolar droplets of the 5CB nematic liquid crystal dispersed in polyvinyl butyral has been studied by the magneto-optical method. Comparative analysis of calculation data and measured values of the threshold field has been performed.
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Original Russian Text © O.O. Prishchepa, A.V. Shabanov, V.Ya. Zyryanov, A.M. Parshin, V.G. Nazarov, 2006, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2006, Vol. 84, No. 11, pp. 723–728.
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Prishchepa, O.O., Shabanov, A.V., Zyryanov, V.Y. et al. Friedericksz threshold field in bipolar nematic droplets with strong surface anchoring. Jetp Lett. 84, 607–612 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364006230081
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