Dr. Paul Archer

Liquid Crystals

• Landau Potential of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
• Polymer-stabilised Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
• Chirality of Liquid Crystalline System
• Bent-core molecule doped Liquid Crystalline Systems

General Physics

• Scaling behaviour of long term stress relaxation of thin film

Journal Publications

1. P. Archer, I. Dierking, “Experimental determination of the full Landau potential of bent-core doped ferroelectric liquid crystals” Phys. Rev. E 71, 041713 (2005)
2. P. Archer, I. Dierking, “Quantitative experimental determination of the Landau-potential of chiral enantiomer doped ferroelectric liquid crystals” Eur. Phys. J. E 18, 373 (2005)
3. P. Archer, I. Dierking, “A bent-core dopant-induced smectic A* twist state” Liq. Cryst. 33, 257 (2006)
4. P. Archer, I. Dierking, “Determination of the Landau potential of chiral enantiomer ferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures”, Soft Matter, 3, 207 (2007)

Oral Presentations

1. "Investigations of a 'banana' doped ferroelectric liquid crystal", 4th Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar series, Manchester, UK, 2004
2. "Landau potential of doped ferroelectric liquid crystals", School on Chiral Liquid Crystals, Bedlewo, Poland, 2005
3. "Chirality dependence of the Landau potential of ferroelectric liquid crystals", 21st British Liquid Crystal Society Conference, York, UK, 2006
4. "Probing material properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals via the Landau potential", 10th Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics Seminar series, Manchester, UK, 2007

Poster Presentations

1. “Properties of banana-doped ferroelectric liquid crystals”, 19th British Liquid Crystal Society Conference, Manchester, UK, 2004
2. “Influence of ‘bent-core’ molecules on a ferroelectric liquid crystal”, 20th International Liquid Crystal Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2004
3. “A Smectic A* twist state induced by bent-core dopants”, 20th British Liquid Crystal Society Conference, Exeter, UK, 2005
4. “Landau potential of bent-core doped ferroelectric liquid crystals”, 20th British Liquid Crystal Society Conference, Exeter, UK, 2005
5. "A Smectic A* twist state induced by bent-core dopants”, School on Chiral Liquid Crystals, Bedlewo, Poland, 2005
6. “SAXS of a bent-core induced Smectic A* twist state”, 21st British Liquid Crystal Society Conference, York, UK, 2006
7. "A new twist on banana's - Chirality from achiral molecules", Physics 2006 SET for Britain, The House of Commons, London, UK, 2006
8. "Chirality from achiral molecules", 22nd British Liquid Crystal Society Conference, Sheffield, UK, 2007
9. "Dynamical structural transition from a frustrated smectic liquid crystal state", MC8: Advancing Materials by Chemical Design, London, UK, 2007
10. "Material properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals as probed by the Landau Potential", MC8: Advancing Materials by Chemical Design, London, UK, 2007

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