Friday, June 22, 2012

1206.4891 (Milos Knezevic et al.)

Theory of photoferroelectric response in SmC* liquids    [PDF]

Milos Knezevic, Mark Warner
We are concerned with the modification of liquid crystalline and polar order in SmC* liquids by illumination. In particular we show that non-uniformity due to absorption and also dynamics, can be complex. The variation of polarization with temperature, while illuminated, is modified from that assuming uniformity. Apparent changes of polarization with illumination will be shown to be underestimated due to non-uniformity. The dynamics is shown to depend on propagating fronts of photo-conversion penetrating the sample.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4891

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