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Nematic cells with defect-patterned alignment layers
Adam S. Backer, A. C. Callan-Jones, Robert A. Pelcovits
Using Monte Carlo simulations of the Lebwohl--Lasher model we study the director ordering in a nematic cell where the top and bottom surfaces are patterned with a lattice of $\pm 1…
Role of electrostatics in the texture of islands in free standing ferroelectric liquid crystal films
Jong-Bong Lee, Robert A. Pelcovits, Robert B. Meyer
Curved textures of ferroelectric smectic C* liquid crystals produce space charge when they involve divergence of the spontaneous polarization field. Impurity ions can partially scr…
Dynamics of the molecular orientation field coupled to ions in two-dimensional ferroelectric liquid crystals
Robert A. Pelcovits, J. -B. Lee, R. B. Meyer
Molecular orientation fluctuations in ferroelectric smectic liquid crystals produce space charges, due to the divergence of the spontaneous polarization. These space charges intera…
Vesicle shape, molecular tilt, and the suppression of necks
Hongyuan Jiang, Greg Huber, Robert A. Pelcovits +1
Can the presence of molecular-tilt order significantly affect the shapes of lipid bilayer membranes, particularly membrane shapes with narrow necks? Motivated by the propensity for…