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Effect of Inhomogeneous Electric Field in a Cell with Side Electrodes: Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB

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The influence of the geometry of a cell with side electrodes and the parameters of applied pulsed-periodic voltage on the director orientation in nematic liquid crystal 5CB is analyzed. It is shown that the two-dimensional model of director motion taking into account the electric field inhomogeneity in the cell provides satisfactory agreement with experimental results.

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  1. Georgi Nadjakov Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1784, Sofia, Bulgaria

    M. Dencheva-Zarkova, G. B. Hadjichristov, Y. G. Marinov, A. G. Petrov & L. Popova

  2. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    I. A. Maslyanitsyn & V. D. Shigorin

  3. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    S. I. Torgova

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Dencheva-Zarkova, M., Hadjichristov, G.B., Marinov, Y.G. et al. Effect of Inhomogeneous Electric Field in a Cell with Side Electrodes: Nematic Liquid Crystal 5CB. Phys. Wave Phen. 28, 250–254 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1541308X2003005X

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