Thin nematic films: anchoring effects and stripe instability revisited

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2013.01.047MaRDI QIDQ2283976zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 13 January 2020

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4859

zbMATH Keywords

anchoring phenomenacontinuum modelssaddle-splay elasticitysurface-induced ordering of liquid crystalssymmetry breaking transitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thin films (74K35) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: We study theoretically the formation of long-wavelength instability patterns observed at spreading of nematic droplets on liquid substrates. The role of surface-like elastic terms such as saddle-splay and anchoring in nematic films of submicron thickness is (re)examined by extending our previous work [Manyuhina et al EPL, 92, 16005 (2010)] to hybrid aligned nematics. We identify the upper threshold for the formation of stripes and compare our results with experimental observations. We find that the wavelength and the amplitude of the in-plane director undulations can be related to the small but finite azimuthal anchoring. Within a simplified model we analyse the possibility of non-planar base state below the Barbero-Barberi critical thickness.

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