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Spatio-temporal Analysis of Electroconvection in Nematics

Heidrun Amm, Maren Grigutsch, and Ralf Stannarius

Universit¨at Leipzig, Fak. Physik und Geowiss., Linn´estr. 5, D-04103 Leipzig Z. Naturforsch. 53 a, 117–126 (1998); received December 10, 1997

We investigate electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals by means of optical microscopy.

Time resolved optical images are used to study the director dynamics. For the first time we present instant images in the dielectric regime. A numerical simulation of the optical transmission patterns is performed on the basis of Fermat’s principle. In the instant images of dielectric rolls, the periodicity of the observed optical pattern is equal to the wavelength0of the convection rolls.

The well known low contrast ‘stationary’ optical texture observed in conventional experiments results from time averaging of these instant images; its wavelength is0=2.

Key words: Liquid Crystals; Pattern Formation; Electrohydrodynamic Instability;

Optical Microscopy.

Reprint requests to Dr. Ralf Stannarius; Fax: +49 341 97 32599, E-mail: stanni@lucifer.exphysik.uni-leipzig.de

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