Fedorenko Denis, Slyusarenko Kostyantyn, Ouskova Elena, Reshetnyak Victor, Ha KiRyong, Karapinar Ridvan, Reznikov Yuriy
Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 46 Prospect Nauki, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008 Jun;77(6 Pt 1):061705. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.061705. Epub 2008 Jun 12.
We studied the effect of light-induced gliding of the easy axis of dye-doped nematic liquid crystal on an aligning polymer surface. The observed drift of the easy axis is over tens of degrees and is caused by light-induced anisotropic adsorption and/or desorption of dye molecules on or from the aligning layer in the presence of light-induced bulk torque. We present a theoretical model that explains the experimental data in terms of the light-induced changes of the adsorbed dye molecules angular distribution due to their exchange with the dye molecules from the liquid crystal bulk.