A Simple Model for Pretilted Nematic Liquid Crystal Medium and Its Torsional Surface Coupling Strength
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 29 (10R), 2045-2051
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.29.2045
Abstract
An explanation for the mechanism generating a pretilted nematic liquid crystal conformation aligned on rubbed alkylbranched-polyimide layers is given based on a steric interaction model. An analytical calculation using this model was shown to agree fairly well with the data of torsional coupling strength obtained in this work.Keywords
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