Novel Defect Structures in a Strongly Confined Liquid-Crystalline Blue Phase

被引：77

作者：

Fukuda, Jun-ichi ^{[1
,2
]}

Zumer, Slobodan ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Natl Inst Adv Ind Sci & Technol, Nanotechnol Res Inst, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058568, Japan

[2] Univ Ljubljana, Dept Phys, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia

[3] Jozef Stefan Inst, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2010年 / 104卷 / 01期

关键词：

TOPOLOGY;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.017801

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

In our numerical study based on a phenomenological description of strongly confined liquid crystalline blue phase I (BP I), we find several novel structures characterized by specific configurations of topological disclination lines. The thickness of the system is of the order of the dimension of the unit cell of the bulk BP I and the confining surfaces adopts homeotropic anchoring. The structures include an array of double-helix disclination lines accompanied by an orthorhombic lattice of double-twist cylinders, and two parallel arrays of winding disclination lines almost perpendicular to each other.

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