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Competition of Lattice and Basis for Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Andrew DeBenedictis, Candy Anquetil-Deck, Douglas J. Cleaver +4
Due to elastic anisotropy, two-dimensional patterning of substrates can promote weak azimuthal alignment of adjacent nematic liquid crystals. Here, we consider how such alignment c…
Towards independent control of polar and azimuthal anchoring
Candy Anquetil-Deck, Douglas J. Cleaver, Jonathan P. Bramble +1
Monte Carlo simulation, experiment and continuum theory are used to examine the anchoring exhibited by a nematic liquid crystal at a patterned substrate comprising a periodic array…
Competing Alignments of Nematic Liquid Crystals on Square Patterned Substrates
Candy Anquetil-Deck, Douglas J Cleaver, Timothy James Atherton
A theoretical analysis is presented of a nematic liquid crystal confined between substrates pat- terned with squares that promote vertical and planar alignment. Two approaches are…