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تسجيل مستخدم جديدFreedericksz-like positional transition of a micro-droplet suspended in a nematic cell
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In this paper, a Freedericksz-like positional transition is found for a spherical micro-droplet suspended in a nematic liquid crystal cell in the presence of an external electric field. Based on the numerical calculation of elastic energy using Green function method, the equilibrium position of micro-droplet is decided through a competition between the buoyant force and the effective force built by the elastic energy gradient existing inside the nematic liquid crystal(NLC) cell. It is shown that the elastic energy dominates the kinetics of micro-droplet until the external field applied reaches a critical value large enough to flatten the elastic energy contour in the central region, which enables the asymmetric buoyant force to drive the liquid droplet abruptly from the cell midplane to a new equilibrium position. It is also found that such a threshold value of external field, which triggers positional transition, depends on thickness $L$ and Frank elastic constant $K$, in a Freedericksz-like manner, but multiplied by a factor of $3sqrt{pi}$. An explicit formula proposed for the critical electric field agrees extremely well with the numerical calculation.
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