arXiv Open Access 2023

Flexo-electricity of the dowser texture

Pawel Pieranski Maria Helena Godinho

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The persistent quasi-planar nematic texture known also as the dowser texture is characterized by a 2D unitary vector field d. We show here that the dowser texture is sensitive, in first order, to electric fields. This property is due to the flexo-electric polarisation P collinear with d expected from R.B. Meyer's considerations on flexo-electricity in nematics. It is pointed out that due to the flexo-electric polarisation nematic monopoles can be manipulated by electric fields of appropriated geometry.

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Pawel Pieranski

Maria Helena Godinho

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Pieranski, P., Godinho, M.H. (2023). Flexo-electricity of the dowser texture. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13226

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Tahun Terbit: 2023
Bahasa: en
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Akses: Open Access ✓