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American Physical Society, Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 3(61), p. 2769-2776

DOI: 10.1103/physreve.61.2769

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Pattern formation of chevrons in the conduction regime in homeotropically aligned liquid crystals

Journal article published in 2000 by Jong-Hoon Huh, Yoshiki Hidaka, Axel G. Rossberg ORCID, Shoichi Kai
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Abstract

We report on chevrons (herringbonelike patterns) observed in homeotropically aligned liquid crystals with high electric conductivity. We focus our attention on two types of chevrons observed in the conduction regime. The threshold voltage and the characteristic double periodicity of chevrons (i.e., the short wavelength λ1 of the striated rolls and the long wavelength λ2 of the chevron bands) have been measured as functions of the applied electric frequency f. With the aid of a crossed polarizer set, we have, in addition, determined the director field which shows a periodic in-plane rotation for our chevrons (with a wavelength λ2). We arrived at the types of chevrons after qualitatively different bifurcation sequences with increasing voltage. The frequency dependence of λ2 also shows a qualitatively different behavior with respect to the two types of chevrons. The experimental results are discussed in terms of recent theoretical investigations.