Flexoelectrically driven instabilities in liquid crystals

K. S. Krishnamurthy, Pramoda Kumar, Pramod Tadapatri

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Abstract

Flexoelectricity is an important mechanoelectric property of liquid crystals that provides a reciprocal, linear relation between curvature distortions and electric polarization. We review here a few of the less known electric field generated flexoelectric effects observed in recent years and relating to (a) dc field excited flexo-response at defect sites in nematic inversion walls, (b) gradient flexoelectric switching at polarity reversals in nematics, (c) flexoelectrically driven phase propagation in the undulatory structure of the smectic C phase and (d) asymmetric distortion in sheared annular walls in free-standing nematic films.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)255-270
Number of pages16
JournalJournal of the Indian Institute of Science
Volume89
Issue number2
StatePublished - 1 Apr 2009
Externally publishedYes

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