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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 ...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
- English
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- Copyright date:
- 2017
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Flexoelectricity and multi-dimensional structures for liquid crystal photonics
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