Robert B. Meyer
Abstract
A theory of the relationship between curvature strains and electric polarization in liquid crystals is developed in analogy to piezoelectric theory in ordinary crystals. The theory may explain some recently observed phenomena in nematic liquid crystals.
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A theory of the relationship between curvature strains and electric polarization in liquid crystals is developed in analogy to piezoelectric theory in ordinary crystals. The theory may explain some recently observed phenomena in nematic liquid crystals.
Key concepts: Liquid crystal, Piezoelectricity, Curvature, Polarization (electrochemistry), Materials science, Condensed matter physics, Continuum hypothesis, Analogy