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Original Articles

Non‐monotonic temperature dependence of the alignment of a nematic mixture on a ferroelectric substrate

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Pages 645-651 | Received 15 Aug 2005, Accepted 14 Feb 2006, Published online: 20 Feb 2007
 

Abstract

Polarization optic techniques have been applied to study specific features of the anisotropic interaction between a dye‐doped eutectic mixture of nematic liquid crystals p‐methoxybenzylidene‐pn‐butylaniline and p‐ethoxybenzylidene‐pn‐butylaniline and a polar surface of a ferroelectric triglycine sulphate crystal over the temperature range including the substrate Curie point T c. It has been found that the temperature‐induced structural changes in the nematic layer in the vicinity of T c are related to the changes in the orientational part of the tensor order parameter Qik . The temperature dependence of the director angle θ¯, averaged over the nematic layer, has been obtained from the effective dichroism values of solute absorption. The experimental data were interpreted using the model, in which the anisotropic part of the surface energy has two terms with orthogonal easy axes.

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research (grant 05‐03‐32852), Russian Academy of Sciences (grants 8.1 and 2.10.2) and Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (grant 18).

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