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Dual nature of the orientational effect of ultrasound on liquid crystals

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The new model of thresholdless distortion of the orientational structure in a homeotropic layer of nematic liquid crystal with free ends in ultrasonic field has been experimentally substantiated for the first time. The model is constructed within the concepts of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and statistical hydrodynamics of liquid crystals for the frequency range in which the elastic and viscous wavelengths are, respectively, longer and shorter than the layer thickness. The main regularities of the phenomenon, which relate the conditional effect threshold to the ultrasonic frequency and layer thickness, have been established based on the experimental data for (20–150)-μm-thick layers in the frequency range of 0.1–9 MHz. These data are compared with the results of numerical calculations, performed taking into account two mechanisms of liquid crystal structure distortion (convective and nonlinear relaxation ones).

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Original Russian Text © O.A. Kapustina, 2017, published in Kristallografiya, 2017, Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 774–782.

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Kapustina, O.A. Dual nature of the orientational effect of ultrasound on liquid crystals. Crystallogr. Rep. 62, 745–752 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063774517050091

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