Abstract
Two-dimensional liquid crystal systems attract recently great attention due to their potential applications in photoelectronic industry. Typically they are formed by the molecules of mesogenic character confined to a surface. They can form then a thin film whose optical properties strongly depend on the type and degree of ordering. This ordering is determined by the state parameters such as density or temperature as well as by the shape of the constituent particles. In order to study these ordering properties a model of two-dimensional hard discorectangles has been considered. Using the Onsager type of the density functional theory the ordering of discorectangles on surfaces has been here presented with the focus on the lamellar formation.
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This work was supported by DS Grant no F-1/46212015/DS of Institute of Physics of Kraków University of Technology.
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Chrzanowska, A., Karbowniczek, P. (2016). Surface Pattern Formation in 2D System of Liquid Crystalline Molecules. In: Fesenko, O., Yatsenko, L. (eds) Nanophysics, Nanophotonics, Surface Studies, and Applications. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 183. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30737-4_17
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