PHASE-TRANSITIONS IN MICROCONFINED NEMATIC LIQUID-CRYSTALS

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VILFAN, M [1 ]
ZUMER, S [1 ]
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[1] EDVARD KARDELJ UNIV, DEPT PHYS, YU-61000 LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
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A brief review of stable phases and phase transitions in microconfined nematic liquid crystals is given. The effects of confinement are studied for the cavities of spherical and cylindrical shape with different surface-liquid crystal interactions. The phase transitions are either of order-disorder type where the magnitude of orientational ordering changes or of the structural type between different configurations of the nematic director field.
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