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- Title
Orientational Defects in Freely Suspended Smectic C Films.
- Authors
Dolganov, P. V.; Bolotin, B. M.
- Abstract
Linear orientational defects (2π and π walls) in freely suspended thin smecticC films exposed to a magnetic field were studied. The bend and splay elastic constants, as well as the orientational viscosity of a two-dimensionalc-director field, were determined. It was established that a change in the polar and azimuthal angles of magnetic-field orientation in a sample cardinally transforms the wall structure. This is caused by the anisotropy of orientational elasticity of the c director.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC fields; VISCOSITY; ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; RHEOLOGY
- Publication
JETP Letters, 2003, Vol 77, Issue 8, p429
- ISSN
0021-3640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/1.1587178