Title

Method to estimate the Leslie coefficients of liquid crystals based on MBBA data

Authors

Authors

H. Y. Wang; T. X. Wu; S. Gauza; J. R. Wu;S. T. Wu

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Liq. Cryst.

Keywords

ROTATIONAL VISCOSITY; DYNAMICS; BIREFRINGENCE; TEMPERATURE; MODULATORS; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Crystallography; Materials Science, ; Multidisciplinary

Abstract

A new effective approach for estimating the Leslie coefficients of liquid crystals based on MBBA data is presented. Literature values of the temperature-dependent Leslie viscosity coefficients of MBBA are used to fit with the analytical functions of Leslie coefficients based on the Imura and Okano theory, and a set of constants in these functions are determined. The same functions are then applied to two high birefringence liquid crystal mixtures, E7 and UCF-2, to extract their Leslie coefficients based on their order parameters. Using the extracted Leslie coefficients, the simulation results agree very well with the experimental data.

Journal Title

Liquid Crystals

Volume

33

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02678290500446111

Language

English

First Page

91

Last Page

98

WOS Identifier

WOS:000234532800010

ISSN

0267-8292

Recommended Citation

"Method to estimate the Leslie coefficients of liquid crystals based on MBBA data" (2006). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 4702.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/4702