A dilute suspension of carbon nanotubes CNTs in a nematic liquid crystal LC does not disturb the LC director. Due to a strong LC-CNT anchoring energy and structural symmetry matching, CNT long axis follows the director field, possessing enhanced dielectric anisotropy of the LC media. This strong anchoring energy stabilizes local pseudonematic domains, resulting in nonzero dielectric anisotropy ...

Dual-frequency cholesteric liquid crystal (DFCLC) devices characteristically require high operation voltage, which hinders their further development in thin-film-transistor driving. Here we report on a lower-voltage switching method based on the thermodielectric effect. This technique entails applying a high-frequency voltage to occasion dielectric oscillation heating so to induce the increase ...

We report flexoelectric liquid crystal displays based on polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals with both uniform lying helix (PSULH) and vertical standing helix (PSVSH) modes. A method to enhance the flexoelectric switching of the CLC mixture is achieved by mixing nematic liquid crystal (NLC) constituents with the addition of a giant flexoelastic coefficient bimesogenic LC dimer into a...

We measured dielectric spectra of glycerol at pressures exceeding 1 GPa in order to examine the slow Debye-like peak. This peak is not a relaxation process, but its frequency is consistent with an origin in dielectric discontinuities due to impurities. These heterogeneities have a non-negligible bulk modulus and are identified as volatile, relatively non-polar liquid contaminants. Although this...

The effect of time-periodic oscillations of the RayleighBénard system on the heat transport in dielectric liquids is investigated by weakly nonlinear analysis. We focus on stationary convection using the slow time scale and arrive at the real GinzburgLandau equation. Classical fourth order Runge-kutta method is used to solve the Ginzburg-Landau equation which gives the amplitude of convection a...

There is no complete theory of dielectric relaxation for liquid crystals, in particular, or for anisotropic polar dielectrics, in general. Here we develop a relation between the complex frequency-dependent permittivity tensor and the autocorrelation matrix for the net permanent dipole moment of an ellipsoidal cavity within the dielectric. The relevant equations are derived for both non-polariza...

The static yield stress and complex dielectric constant of glass spheres dispersed in vacuum oil are measured as a function of ~applied electric field! frequency and water content. Based on a model in which the dielectric constants of the solid and the liquid constituents are given by the Debye form with a log-normal distribution of relaxation times, it is shown that the electrical and the mech...

We investigate the feasibility of using dielectric spectra to classify hazardous and nonhazardous liquids. The dielectric spectra of several liquids was obtained with a shielded-open coaxial fixture, and we present a new full-wave model for calculating the complex permittivity of liquids using this fixture. Using the measured complex permittivity for each liquid, we examine several classificati...

Dielectric relaxation of the ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethyl sulfate (EMI+ETS-), is studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The collective dynamics of polarization arising from cations and anions are examined. Characteristics of the rovibrational and translational components of polarization dynamics are analyzed to understand their respective roles in the microwave an...

We found that by opportune functionalization of a polar dielectric substrate, a self-arrangement of hemicylindrical or toroidal-shaped liquid droplets can be obtained. The process takes place when a thermal stimulus is provided to a poled substrate whose surface is covered by an oily substance layer. Liquid droplet self-arrangement is due to the pyroelectric effect, and interferometric characte...