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Pozycja Numerical studies of significance of anchoring strength energy for behaviour of flexoelectric homeotropic nematic layer subjected to DC electric field(Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej, 2009) Buczkowska, Mariola; Grzelczak, KatarzynaElastic deformations of homeotropic nematic liquid crystal layers subjected to a d.c. electric field were studied numerically. The flexoelectric properties of the nematic material and the presence of ionic space charge were taken into account. The influence of anchoring strength W was investigated. The calculations were performed for layers with negative dielectric anisotropy and negative sum of flexoelectric coefficients. Strongly blocking electrodes were assumed. The threshold voltages for deformations were computed for several anchoring strength values and for low, moderate and high ion content. Its value was nearly proportional to W for low anchoring strength and saturated at some high value of W. The director distributions were also determined. This task was complicated by the presence of space charge of ions. Remarkable change of deformation character was noticed when the ion content and anchoring strength were varied.Pozycja Role of ions mobility in flexoelectric deformations of conductive homeotropic nematic layers(Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej, 2008) Buczkowska, Mariola; Derfel, GrzegorzNumerical studies of d.c. electric field induced deformations of homeotropic layers of flexoelectric nematics containing ions are presented. It is shown that anomalous dependencies of threshold voltage for deformations on ion concentration, which were found in our previous papers, are due to difference between mobilities of cations μ + and anions μ -. The influence of this difference on the deformations is analyzed. The set of equations describing the director orientation, the electric potential and the ion concentrations as functions of the coordinate normal to the layer, is solved. The calculations are performed for four types of nematic materials characterized by both signs of dielectric anisotropy and of the sum of flexoelectric coefficients. Finite surface anchoring strength is assumed. It is shown that the anomalies concerning the threshold vanish if μ + becomes equal to μ - results are explained by means of qualitative analysis of the electric field distributions.Pozycja Numerical investigation of deformations of planar flexoelectric nematic layers containing ions(Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej, 2008) Buczkowska, Mariola; Wasilewski, GrzegorzDeformations of planar nematic layers of conducting nematic liquid crystal possessing flexoelectric properties and subjected to external d.c. voltage were studied numerically. Various kinds of electrodes, from strongly blocking to well conducting, were assumed. The calculations were performed for nematic material characterized by positive dielectric anisotropy and by positive sum of flexoelectric coefficients. The threshold voltages for deformations were computed for various ion concentrations and for several rates of electrode processes. The enhancement as well as reduction of the threshold were observed. Well defined dependence of layer behaviour on the kind of electrodes and on the ion concentration was found. These effects are due to interactions between flexoelectric polarization and strong electric field of high gradient.