Thesis
Flexoelectricity and multi-dimensional structures for liquid crystal photonics
- Abstract:
-
The investigations carried out in this thesis involve the characterization and the manipulation of dielectric and flexoelectric phenomena in liquid crystalline systems. The first half of the thesis considers the flexoelectric effect in achiral and chiral nematic liquid crystals (LCs). These chapters demonstrate a new approach to measure the sum of the flexoelectric coefficients in achiral nematic LCs confined to hybrid aligned and planar-aligned geometries. The importance of ionic effects ...
Expand abstract
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(pdf, 12.4MB)
-
Why is the content I wish to access not available via ORA?
Bibliographic data (the information relating to research outputs) and full-text items (e.g. articles, theses, reports, etc.) arrive in ORA from several different sources. Unfortunately we are not able to make available the full-text for every research output.
Please contact the ORA team (
) if you have queries regarding unavailable content OR if you are aware of a full-text copy we can make available.
) if you have queries regarding unavailable content OR if you are aware of a full-text copy we can make available.
Content may be unavailable for the following four reasons
-
Version unsuitable
-
We have not obtained a suitable full-text for a given research output. See this page for more information.
-
Recently completed
-
Sometimes content is held in ORA but is unavailable for a fixed period of time to comply with the policies and wishes of rights holders.
-
Permissions
-
All content made available in ORA should comply with relevant rights, such as copyright. See this page for more information.
-
Clearance
-
Some thesis volumes scanned as part of the digitisation scheme funded by Dr Leonard Polonsky are currently unavailable due to sensitive material or uncleared third-party copyright content. We are attempting to contact authors whose theses are affected.
Alternative access to the full-text
You may be able to access the full-text directly from the publisher's website using the 'Publisher Copy' link in the 'Links & Downloads' box from a research output's ORA record page. This method may require an institutional or individual subscription to the journal/resource.
Funding
Merck Chemicals Ltd
More from this funder
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
More from this funder
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
-
uuid:41ac1c41-409d-4521-b152-4f677d2dd24a
- Deposit date:
- 2019-02-11
Related Items
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Tartan, C
- Copyright date:
- 2017
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record