Monday, 3 July 2006: 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Crestone/Colorado Rockies (Keystone Resort)
Posters - Interfaces and surfaces
Electrohydrodynamic instability in cholesteric liquid crystals under controlling helical pitch
Jong-Hoon Huh
Dependence of the pretilt angle in a discotic liquid crystal on the rubbing strength and the phase temperature
Khoa Van Le, Kazuhiro Amemiya, Yoichi Takanishi, Ken Ishikawa, Hideo Takezoe
Randomness and confinement driven glassy behaviour in nematic liquid crystals
Matej Forjan, Vlad Popa Nita, Milan Ambrozic, Samo Kralj
Electro-optical properties of nemanic liquid crystal emulsion
Alexander G. Maksimochkin Sr., Sergey V. Pasechnik Jr., Gennady I. Maksimochkin, Valentin A. Tsvetkov, Vladimir G. Chigrinov
Light induced changes of helix pitch in cholesteric liquid crystal cells
Tatiana N. Orlova, Alexei D. Kiselev, Roman I. Egorov
A comparative study of heptyloxycyanobiphenyl (7OCB) and nonyloxycyanobiphenyl (9OCB) under sub-micrometer cylindrically confinement
S Diez Sr., M. Rosario De la Fuente Sr., M. A. Perez-Jubindo Sr., David O. Lopez Sr., J. Salud Sr., M. Barrio Sr., Josep Ll. Tamarit Sr.
Enhancement of Freedericksz threshold voltage of nematic liquid crystals in thin cells
Surajit Dhara
Experimental investigations on weakly polar liquid crystal-aerosil composites
S. Krishna Prasad, Chethan V. Lobo, C.V. Yelamaggad
Investigations on the smectic A–smectic-C transition of conventional and `de Vries' types of materials in bulk and confined geometries
Chethan V. Lobo, K.L. Sandhya, S. Krishna Prasad, D.S. Shankar Rao, Ch. Bahr
Quasi-divergent nematic surface electroclinic effect
Min Hua Zhu, Giovanni Carbone, Charles Rosenblatt
Intermediate-rigid regime crossover for an aerosil network dispersed in liquid-crystal
George Cordoyiannis, Samo Kralj, George Nounesis, Zdravko Kutnjak, Slobodan Zumer
Smectic tilt susceptibility: Anharmonic behavior in surface-induced smectic layers above the nematic—smectic-A transition temperature
Zhibin Huang, Giovanni Carbone, Chen Xia, Ghanshyam P. Sinha, Charles Rosenblatt
Polarization characteristics of twist nematic LC grating fabricated from polarization hologram
Andy Y.-G. Fuh, Shing-Trong Wu
Study of liquid crystal in contact with aqueous solutions for detection of biomolecules
Kristiaan Neyts, Julien Da Sylva, Hans Desmet, Hamidreza Azarinia, Irene Bartolozzi, Etienne Schacht
The nature of prolate shape of nematic drops (tactoids) in lyotropic liquid crystals
Anatoliy Kaznacheev
Azo-dye layer property and cladding in silicon waveguide & resonator
zhijian Liu, Anatoli A. Muravsky, Vladimir G. Chigrinov
Anchoring transition and influence of director fluctuations in liquid crystal droplets
G. Saipreeti, N. Satyavathi, V. S. S. Sastry, K. P. N. Murthy
Structural transition in thin nematic films on curved surfaces: Role of surface anchoring
D. Jayasri, T. Sairam, V. S. S. Sastry, K. P. N. Murthy
Dependence of the anchoring energy on the applied voltage in a nematic cell
L. R. Evangelista, R. S. Zola, G. Barbero
An intrinsic unified surface anchoring strength at interfaces of a thin nematic slab
Keun Heo, Akihiko Sugimura, Sadao Takayama, Kiyoaki Usami
Cano-Granjean wedge at weak surface anchoring
Vladimir A. Belyakov
Structure transformations of confined chiral LC influenced by surface anchoring
Vladimir A. Belyakov
Orientational order in 12CB – aerosil gels
Vishal Pandya, Daniele Finotello
High twist angles for NLC without chiral dopants
Alexander Muravsky, Anatoli Murauski, Xihua Li, Vladimir Chigrinov
Novel liquid crystal alignment method: Ion beam technique and its applications
Han Jin Ahn, Kyung Chan Kim, Jong Bok Kim, Byoung Har Hwang, Dong Choon Hyun, Hong Koo Baik
Acoustic study of N-I phase transition in liquid crystal-silicon oil emulsion
Gennady I. Maksimochkin, Sergey V. Pasechnik, Alexander G. Maksimochkin Sr., Valentin A. Tsvetkov, Milan Svetec, Samo Kralj
Weak anchoring effects in electrically driven Freedericksz transitions
Gaetano Napoli
Finite-size effects and quenched random disorder in liquid crystal microemulsions and confined systems
George Cordoyiannis, George Nounesis, Samo Kralj, Slobodan Zumer, Zdravko Kutnjak
Photoalignment of cholesteric liquid crystals
Olexandr Kurochkin, Elena Ouskova, Yuri Reznikov, Yuri Kurioz, Olexandr Tereshchenko, Roman Vovk, Dong Hoon Kim, Seo Kyu Park, Soon Bum Kwon
Magnetically-induced drift of easy orientation axis over polymer surface with a weak anchoring
Yuri Reznikov, Olexander Buluy, Kostyantyn Slyusarenko
Thermal desorption of the surface monolayer
Mitya Reznikov, Cheng Chen, Andriy Nych, Vassili Nazarenko, Mike O'Callaghan, Phil Bos
Changing of contact angle of nematic with photoaligning surface at anchoring transition of liquid crystal from homeotropic to planar state
Olena Bukaraseva, Igor Gvozdovskyy, Yuri Kurioz, Dmytro Kurysh, Yuri Reznikov
Gray-scale improvement by hysteresis reduction of dichroic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC)
Akira Masutani, Tony Roberts, Bettina Schüller, Nadine Hollfelder, Pinar Kilickiran, Gabriele Nelles, Akio Yasuda, Akira Sakaigawa
Intermolecular interactions in langmuir and langmuir-blodgett films of azo dye/liquid crystal mixtures
Danuta A. Bauman, Krzysztof Inglot, Tomasz Martynski
Analysis of the orientational ordering process of depositing 4-n-pentyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl molecules onto polyimide Langmuir-Blodgett films
Dai Taguchi, Makoto Hamatsu, Takaaki Manaka, Mitsumasa Iwamoto
Monolayer films of novel imidazolium-based and pyridinium-based ionic discotic mesogenic molecules at liquid-air and solid-air interfaces
K. A. Suresh, Alpana Nayak, Sandeep Kumar, Santanu K. Pal
Aligning properties of surfaces with DVD structures
Valentin A Tsvetkov, Sergey V. Pasechnik, Gennady I. Maksimochkin, Vladimir M. Kozenkov, Galina N. Dorozhkina, Andry A. Angelutz, Aleksej V. Lezhnev
Aerosil dispersed liquid crystals: The picture from dielectric spectroscopy
Jan Leys, Ghanshyam Sinha, Asako Oka, Ahmed Hourri, Christ Glorieux, Jan Thoen
Liquid crystal in rectangular channels: new possibilities for three dimensional studies
Sergey V. Pasechnik, Dina V. Shmeliova, Vladimir G. Chigrinov, Valentin A. Tsvetkov, Alex V. Dubtsov
Non-stable orientational structures in the nematic droplets
Oxana O. Prishchepa, Victor Ya. Zyryanov, Vasily F. Shabanov, Alexander V. Shabanov
Ordered structures in hybrid liquid crystal films: A non-Boltzmann Monte Carlo study
G. Saipreeti, V. S. S. Sastry, K. P. N. Murthy
Simulation of phase separation in confined polymer-liquid-crystal mixtures
Matej Bazec, Slobodan Zumer
Measuring the surface order parameter of a liquid crystal cell using the phase transition droplet method and polarized IR absorption
Se-Joon Oh, Ken Kuboki, Tetsuya Miyashita, Tatsuo Uchida
Nematic director configurations in patterned planar and homeotropic anchored surfaces
Tim J Spencer, Chirs M Care
Dynamics of dislocation loops in one and two layer freely suspended films of fluorinated SmA liquid crystals
Cheol S. Park, Noel A. Clark
Small - angle X-ray scattering study in liquid crystals drops
Nicole R. Demarquette, Lincoln S Gomes, Iris Torriani
Striped patterns in smectic A liquid crystals in mixtures of compounds made of rod-like and bent-core molecules
R. Pratibha, N.V. Madhusudana, B.K. Sadashiva
Precise method for determination of polar anchoring energy
Anatoli Murauski, Vladimir Chigrinov
Surface anchoring energy of nematic liquid crystals on perflouropolyether Langmuir-Blodgett films
Joette M. Russell-Tanner, Sadao Takayama, Akihiko Sugimura, Joseph M. DeSimone, Edward T. Samulski
Exact results for the reorientation of the director field in nematic liquid crystals: Green's function approach
C. A. R. Yednak, R. N. Igarashi, E. K. Lenzi, L. R. Evangelista
Compression induced achiral-chiral phase transition of monolayers comprised of banana-shaped achiral molecules at the air-water interface : analysis of geometry effect based on Williams-Bragg approach
Tetsuya Yamamoto, Takaaki Manaka, Dai Taguchi, Mitsumasa Iwamoto
Contribution of electrostatic energy to curvature and frank elastic energy of monolayer domains comprised of polar molecules : Shape of domains with orientational deformation
Tetsuya Yamamoto, Takaaki Manaka, Mitsumasa Iwamoto
High-precision measurement of polar anchoring strength using psi delta HAN cell (PDH) method
Yuji Ohno, Takahiro Ishinabe, Tetsuya Miyashita, Tatsuo Uchida
Excimer formation in Langmuir-Blodgett films of liquid crystalline perylene derivatives
Robert Hertmanowski, Tomasz Martynski, Roland Stolarski, Danuta A. Bauman
Patterned surfaces obtained via surface memory effect
Robert Repnik, Mirko Kokole, Zlatko Bradac, Janez Pirs, Marjan Krasna, Ivan Gerlic, Samo Kralj
Electro-optical characteristics of vertical alignment cell by ion-beam exposure on the SiC thin film layer
Jeoung-Yeon Hwang, Sung-Ho Choi, Young-Hwan Kim, Je-Hwang Ryu, Jin Jang, Dae-Shik Seo
Electro-optical characteristics of flexible liquid crystal display using photoploymer surface
Jeoung-Yeon Hwang, Sung-Ho Choi, Byoung-Yong Kim, Yong-Pil Park, Dae-Shik Seo
Effect of mechanical rubbing on surface energy of poly(vinyl) alcohol thin films and the observation of the contact angle of a liquid crystal on the rubbed polymer surface
Wenjun Zheng, G. Y. Lin
Surface anchoring energy of nematic liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy determined by saturation voltage method
Yoshikazu Sasaki, Hideo Ichinose, Hiroyoshi Naito
Ultra-week azimuthal anchoring of a nematic liquid crystal on a planar orienting photopolymer
Mathieu Nespoulous, Maurizio Nobili, Christophe Blanc
Surface quenched disorder of a nematic liquid crystal
Mathieu Nespoulous, Christophe Blanc, Maurizio Nobili
Control of the flow of a nematic liquid crystal in a confined micro-channel
Yu-Jin Na, Hyungwu Pae, Sin-Doo Lee
Surface effects on 2-dimensional anisotropic phase separation from liquid crystal and polymer composites
You-Jin Lee, Min Young Jin, Jong-Wook Jung, Hak-Rin Kim, Yoonseuk Choi, Jae-Hoon Kim, Kwang-Soo Bae
Study of the phase transitions in nematic liquid crystals under ultrasound field
Lians S. Bezhanova, Alpik R. Mkrtchyan, Mikayel L. Baburyan, Zorik V. Baghdasaryan
Precision temperature measurements on thin liquid crystal cell
Iqbal A. Khan, Sarah Akhtar, Rizwan Mahmood
Nonsingular wall motion in twisted nematics layers
Vladimir A. Belyakov, Wojciech Kuczynski
Nonsingular walls in plane cholesteric layers
Vladimir A. Belyakov, Mikhail A. Osipov, Iain W. Stewart
A simple model for blade coating of a nematic
Judit Quintans Carou, Stephen K. Wilson, Nigel J. Mottram, Brian R. Duffy
Infrared spectroscopy of competitive interactions between liquid crystals, metal salts and dimethyl methylphosphonate at surfaces
Nicholas L. Abbott, Katie D. Cadwell, Mahriah E. Alf

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