Tao, Yin = 納米線在液晶中的動力學 / 陶寅. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Tao, Yin = Na mi xian zai ye jing zhong de dong li xue / Tao Yin. / Abstract --- p.I / 摘要 --- p.III / Acknowledgement --- p.IV / List of Figures --- p.VIII / List of Tables --- p.XV / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1. --- Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2. --- Review of Liquid Crystals --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2.1. --- Basic concepts --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2.2. --- Physical Properties of liquid crystals --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3. --- Manipulation of nanowires in suspensions --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3.1. --- Longitudinal Anchoring of liquid crystals --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3.2. --- Dielectrophoretic force and torque --- p.12 / Chapter 1.3.3. --- Measurement of conductivity --- p.15 / Chapter 1.4. --- Our motivation and work --- p.17 / Reference --- p.19 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Experiments --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1. --- Nematic Liquid Crystal Cell Design and Fabrication --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1.1. --- Parallel Plate Capacitor like Liquid Crystal Cell --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1.2. --- In-Plane Switching Liquid Crystal Cell --- p.23 / Chapter 2.2. --- Filling of liquid crystals and dispersing nanowires --- p.28 / Chapter 2.3. --- Measurements --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.1. --- Measurement of alignment and reorientation of the nanowires --- p.30 / Chapter 2.3.2. --- Measurements of the optical transmittance of liquid crystal cell --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4. --- Experimental Procedures --- p.33 / Chapter 2.4.1. --- Study of the relaxation of liquid crystals and nanowires --- p.33 / Chapter 2.4.2. --- Study of response of liquid crystals and nanowires to applied E field --- p.34 / Reference --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Numerical simulations of the motion of liquid crystals --- p.36 / Chapter 3.1. --- Leslie-Ericsson equation --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2. --- Response and relaxation of liquid crystals --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2.1. --- Parallel plate capacitor like liquid crystal cells --- p.39 / Chapter 3.2.2. --- In-plane switching liquid crystal cells --- p.45 / Reference --- p.49 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Method of analysis --- p.50 / Chapter 4.1. --- Deduction of the orientation of nanowires --- p.50 / Chapter 4.1.1. --- Parallel plate capacitor like liquid crystal cell --- p.50 / Chapter 4.1.2. --- In-plane switching liquid crystal cells --- p.52 / Chapter 4.2. --- Methods of curve fitting to experimental data --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2.1. --- Procedures of fitting the curves of transmission --- p.54 / Chapter 4.2.2. --- Procedures of fitting the curves of angle β (t) and φ (t)…… --- p.57 / Reference --- p.64 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Results and discussion --- p.65 / Chapter 5.1. --- Study of the relaxation of nanowires and liquid crystals --- p.65 / Chapter 5.1.1. --- Dependence on the length of nanowires --- p.65 / Chapter 5.1.2. --- Dependence on the temperature of liquid crystals --- p.82 / Chapter 5.2. --- Study of the responses of nanowires and liquid crystals to E field --- p.89 / Chapter 5.2.1. --- Dependence on the applied E field --- p.89 / Chapter 5.2.2. --- Dependence on the length of nanowires --- p.112 / Chapter 5.2.3. --- Dependence on the temperature of liquid crystal --- p.116 / Reference --- p.122 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Conclusions --- p.123 / Appendix 1 --- p.125 / Appendix 2 --- p.132
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_327130 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Contributors | Tao, Yin., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Physics. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, xvi, 139 leaves : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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