2014 On étudie les domaines parallèles et croisés obtenus par application de champs électriques continus et basse fréquence ( 2 Hz) sur des cristaux liquides MBBA et 440 à anisotropie de susceptibilité diélectrique négative. Les principaux résultats sont : 2014 la reproductibilité des domaines parallèles particulièrement pour des couches inclinées d'épaisseur 5-90 03BCm avec un ancrage faible assuré par un agent tensio-actif (savon) ; 2014 la création de domaines en croix dans des couches minces homéotropes ; ces domaines apparaissent dans la région de la cathode et sont dus au fort champ inhomogène générateur de structures flexion-éventail séparées par des disclinaisons.Parmi les mécanismes électrostatiques et électrodynamiques connus, seul l'effet flexoélectrique dû à un gradient de champ électrique peut expliquer la formation de ces domaines.
Formation of new transient walls by a constant magnetic field at the Fréedericsz critical value has been observed. They are oriented along the initial alignment of the nematic phase of phenyl benzoates and appeared only in relatively thick samples with a thickness between 50 and 100 μm of the cells. The excellent planarity of the liquid crystal orientation is considered to be the most important condition for their presence These magnetic walls are transient as they disappear either after a few seconds for 100 μm thick nematic cells or after parts of a second for thinner (50 μm) nematic cells. Nonregular stable magnetic walls, incorporating disclinations with core, appear immediately after the relaxation of the transient walls, when the planarity of the nematic orientation is not perfect. In thinner nematic cells of 20 μm or less, a Fréedericksz transition has only been observed. The formation of transient magnetic walls can be described by a model taking into account alignment-inversion, twisted along Y regions. The transient walls accompanied by a system of Becke lines relax by going through three-dimensional twist-splay-bend deformations.
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