4 papers
Electrostatics in a crooked nanochannel in a newly developed curvilinear coordinate system
Xi Chen, Ke Xiao, Rui Ma +2
Both biological and artificial nanochannels in crooked shape exhibit unusual transportational characteristics, bringing about a challenge to the traditional theoretical analysis of…
First-Principles Experimental Demonstration of Ferroelectricity in a Thermotropic Nematic Liquid Crystal: Spontaneous Polar Domains and Striking Electro-Optics
Xi Chen, Eva Korblova, Dengpan Dong +8
We report the experimental determination of the structure and response to applied electric field of the lower-temperature nematic phase of the previously reported calamitic compoun…
Formation of a fast "lane" for positional transition in a microparticle-suspended nematic liquid crystal cell
Ke Xiao, Xi Chen, Xuezheng Cao +1
In this paper, based on the numerical calculation of total energy utilizing the Green's function method, we found that the external electric field applied to a microparticle-suspen…
Freedericksz-like positional transition of a micro-droplet suspended in a nematic cell
Ke Xiao, Xi Chen, Chen-Xu Wu
In this paper, a Freedericksz-like positional transition is found for a spherical micro-droplet suspended in a nematic liquid crystal cell in the presence of an external electric f…