The behaviour of liquid crystal materials used in display devices is discussed. The
underlying continuum theory developed by Frank, Ericksen and Leslie for describing this …

We propose a surface treatment allowing one to obtain a sliding planar anchoring of nematic
(or cholesteric) liquid crystals. It consists of depositing a thin layer of the polymercaptan …

Dynamic light scattering was used to measure the azimuthal anchoring energy coefficient W
φ of nematic liquid crystal (5CB) on photoaligning poly-(vinyl-cinnamate) layer …

Systematic measurements of the surface viscosity of several nematic liquid crystals in
contact with a polymercaptan layer show that the latter scales like the bulk rotational …

Measurement with a rotating magnetic field of the surface viscosity of a nematic liquid crystal -
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Within the Landau-de Gennes theory, we have investigated the dynamics of s=±1/2 twist
disclinations in a twisted nematic cell, using the two-dimensional finite-difference iterative …

We consider the effect of a localized surface viscosity on the relaxation of an imposed
deformation in nematic liquid crystal cells. The simple case in which the samples are in the …

We investigate when it is possible to introduce surface physical parameters characterizing
the nematic/substrate interface. The analysis is performed by solving the problem assuming …

We analyze the influence of a thin polymer layer with lateral side groups on the anchoring of
a nematic liquid crystal. We show that the effective anisotropic part of the anchoring energy …

We analyze the influence of the surface viscosity on the relaxation of the nematic
deformation induced by an external field on a nematic cell, when the distorting field is …