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Flexoelectric effect in a bent-core mesogen

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Pages 1119-1124 | Received 16 Feb 2009, Accepted 25 Feb 2009, Published online: 06 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

The flexoelectricity in a bent-core liquid crystal was evaluated quantitatively using two independent electrooptic methods. The absolute value of the bend flexoelectric coefficient e 3 was measured to be about 15.8 pC m−1. Our results revealed that there is little difference between the flexoelectricity of bent-core mesogens and that of conventional calamitic mesogens, i.e. in the same pC m−1 order. The principles of the methods used are reviewed in detail.

Acknowledgements

This work is partly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (16105003) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, Sports and Technology of Japan and the G-COE programme in the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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