Abstract Equations are obtained for the surface tilt angle and the twist angle of the director in a twisted nematic liquid crystal cell under a high magnetic field. Under a zero pretilt angle, the two equations reduce to those obtained by Sugimura et al.[2,3] This fact has also been demonstrated numerically. With finite field strength and nonzero pretilt angle, no saturation transition exists.
Received: 11 November 2000
Revised: 12 December 2001
Accepted manuscript online:
PACS:
61.30.-v
(Liquid crystals)
Fund: Project supported by the Doctoral Foundation of Education Bureau of Hebei Province.
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Zhang Zhi-dong (张志东), Yu Hui (于慧), Li Li (李丽) ON THE SATURATION BEHAVIOUR OF TWISTED NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS WITH A NONZERO PRETILT ANGLE 2001 Chinese Physics 10 645
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