Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.527, 53-58, 2010
Non-Singular Walls in Cano-Grandjean Wedge
This work is dedicated to experimental investigations of a chiral liquid crystal (CLC) director distribution in a wedge shape cell at weak surface anchoring. For the first time Cano-Grandjean structure for substrates treated by photo alignment technique for different strength of surface anchoring is investigated. The results are compared with theoretical predictions for two models of surface anchoring potential.