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Nonlinear and Liquid Crystal Physics Group

2000 to 2004 Publications

2004

M. Hird, Y. Raoul, J. W. Goodby, H. Gleeson, 'Chirality issues and interesting properties of achiral and racemic materials with bent molecular structures', Ferroelectrics 309 95-101 2004

Abshagen, J., Cliffe, K. A., Langenberg, J., et. al., 'Taylor-Couette flow with independently rotating end plates', COMP FLUID DYN 18 (2-4): 129-136 NOV 2004

Wood, T. A., Gleeson, H. F., Dickinson, M. & Wright, A. J., 'Mechanisms of optical angular momentum transfer to nematic liquid crystalline droplets', Applied Physics Letters, 84(20) 4292 2004

Wang, Y. & Gleeson, H. F., 'Y Wang and H F Gleeson, 'Phase behaviour of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal studied by Raman spectroscopy', Ferroelectrics, 311 355-362 2004

Hof, B., Juel, A., Zhao, L., Henry, D., Ben Hadid, H. & Mullin, T., 'On the onset of oscillatory convection in molten gallium', J. Fluid Mech., 515, 391-413

Mullin, T., Tavener, S. J. & Blake, G. I., 'Electrohydrodynamic convection in small aspect ratio devices', J. Non-Newton. Fluid., 119 (1-3), 61-69

Chan, H. K. & Dierking, I., 'Growth Laws for the Phase Ordering Dynamics of the B1 Phase of a Bent-core Liquid Crystal', Phys. Rev. E, 70, 021703-1-5

Dierking, I., Chan, H. K., Culfaz, F. & McQuire, S., 'Fractal Growth of a Conventional Calamitic Liquid Crystal', Phys. Rev. E, 70, 051701-1-8

Moresco, P. & Alboussiere, T., 'Stability of Bodewadt-Hartmann layers.', Eur. J. Mech., B/Fluids 23, 851-859.

Wang, Y., Gleeson, H. F., Watson, S., Sahagun-Sanchez, D., Goodby, J. W., Hird, M., Petrenko, A. & Osipov, M. A., 'On the temperature dependence of the tilt and spontaneous polarisation in high tilt antiferroelectric liquid crystals.', Journal of Material Chemistry, 14, 1480 - 1485

Roberts, N., Guillou, J-P. S., Gleeson, H. F., Kirar, I., Watson, S. J. & Arikainen, E. O., 'Optical Properties of Cholesteric Materials used in Surface Stabilised Cholesteric Texture Devices', Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 411, 57-69

Gleeson, H. F., Whitehouse, R. & Winlow, R., 'Contrast adjustment of radiological images using liquid crystal devices', Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 413, 553-559

Roberts, N. W., Temple, S. E., Haimberger, T. H., Gleeson, H. F., & Hawryshyn, C. W., 'Differences in the optical properties of rod and cone photoreceptors leading to axial polarisation sensitivity', Journ. Opt. Soc. America: A, 21(3) 335-345,

Tipton, C. R. & Mullin, T., 'An experimental study of Faraday waves formed on the interface between two immiscible liquids', Physics of Fluids, 16, 2336-2341

Moresco, P. & Alboussiere, T., 'Experimental study of the instability of the Hartmann layer', J. Fluid Mech., 504:167-181

Reis, P. M., Ehrhardt, G., Stephenson, A. & Mullin, T., 'Gases, liquids and crystals in granular segregation', Europhys. Lett., 66, 357

Gesekus G., Dierking I., Gerber S., Wulf M. & Vill, V., 'Chiral Banana Liquid Crystals Derived from Sugars', Liq. Cryst., 31, 145-152

Dierking I., Scalia G., Morales P. & LeClere D., 'Aligning and Re-orienting Carbon Nanotubes by Nematic Liquid Crystals', Adv. Mater., 16, 865-869

Dierking, I., 'Fractal and Non-fractal Structure-Property Relations of Polymer Stabilised Liquid Crystals', Adv. Funct. Mater., 14, 883-890

Bronnikov, S. & Dierking, I., 'Time resolved statistical analysis of liquid crystal nucleus growth from the isotropic melt', Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 6, 1745-1749

Roberts, N. W. & Gleeson, H. F., 'The absorption of polarized light by vertebrate photoreceptors', Vision Research, 44(23), 2643-2652

Dierking, I., 'The coupling between polarisation and tilt in homologous series of ferroelectric liquid crystals', J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 16, 1715-1724

Dierking, I., 'Fractal scaling of surface degradation patterns formed by dielectric breakdown of liquid crystal Hele-Shaw cells', Europhs. Lett., 67, 464-469

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2003

P Taylor, H Gleeson, Bagheri-Hamaneh, 'Theory of layers structure in ferroelectric liquid crystal devices in applied electric fields', Phys. Rev. E, 68, 051704, (2003)

Nicholas W. Roberts, Helen F. Gleeson, ' The physics of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals', J. Appl. Cryst. 36, 958, 2003.

T. Mullin, S. Shopton, S. J. Tavener 'Flow in a symmetric channel with an expanded section', Fluid Dyn. Res. 33 (5-6): 433-452, 2003

B. Hof, A Juel, T Mullin 'Scaling of the turbulence transition threshold in a pipe', Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (24): 244502-4, 2003

B. Roman, P.M. Reis, B. Audoly, S. de Villiers, V. Vignie and D. VAllet, `Oscillatory fracture paths in thin elastic sheets', C.R. de Mecanique 331, p:881 (2003)

B. Hof, A. Juel, T. Mullin 'Magnetohydrodynamic damping of convective flows in molten gallium', J Fluid Mech. 482: 163-179, 2003

HF Gleeson, 'Structures and electric field effects in ferro-, ferri- and antiferro-electric liquid crystal devices', invited paper, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 401, 97-109, (2003).

I. Dierking, "Liquid Crystalline Fractals: dilation invariant growth structures in the phase ordering process of 'banana-phases'", Liquid Crystals Today, 12, 2003, 1-10.

Abshagen, J., Meincke, O., Pfister, G., Cliffe, K.A. & Mullin, T. 'Transient dynamics at the onset of Taylor vortices',J. Fluid Mech. 2003 476 , 2003, 335 - 343

'The `Indian wire trick' via parametric excitation: a comparison between theory and experiment' by T Mullin, AR Champneys, WB Fraser, J Galan and DJ Acheson
P ROY SOC LOND A MAT 459 : 539-547 2003

Price TJ, Mullin T, Kobine JJ 'Numerical and experimental characterization of a family of two-roll-mill flows' P ROY SOC LOND A MAT 459 : 117-135 2003

Tiffany A. Wood, Amanda J. Wright, Mark R. Dickinson, Helen F. Gleeson, Tom Mullin, 'The Transverse Trapping Force of an Optical Trap - Factors Affecting its Measurement', Journal of Modern Optics, 50, 1521-1532, (2003).

Dierking, I., Russell, C., "Universal Scaling Laws for the Anisotropic Growth of SmA Liquid Crystal BGtonnets", Physica B, 325, (2003), 281-286

Nicholas W. Roberts, Helen F. Gleeson, Nicholas Bowring, Alexander Seed, John W. Goodby, Mike Hird 'An experimental and theoretical investigation into the reflection spectra of SmC* sub-phases', Journal of Material Chemistry, 13, 353-359, (2003).

Dierking, I., "Relationship Between the Electro-optic Performance of Polymer-Stabilised Liquid Crystal Devices and the Fractal Dimension of Their Network Morphology", Adv. Mater., 15, (2003), 152-156

H F Gleeson, Synchrotron studies of electric-field effects in smectic liquid crystals, Invited Article, Fibre Diffraction Review, 11, 44-51, (2003)

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2002

Mullin T, Toya Y, Tavener SJ 'Symmetry breaking and multiplicity of states in small aspect ratio Taylor-Couette flow' PHYS FLUIDS 14 (8): 2778-2787 2002

Findon, A., Gleeson, H. F. & Lydon, J. The realignment of an achiral smectic-C chevron structure with applied field. Liquid Crystals, 29 (1) 79-85 2002

Hirst, L.S., Watson, S.J., Gleeson, H.F., Cluzeau, P., Pindak, R., Pitney, J., Cady, A., Johnson, P., Huang, C.C., Levelut, A.-M., Barois, P., Srajer, G., Pollmann, J., Caliebe, W., Seed, A., Herbert, M.R., Goodby, J.W., & Hird, M. The interlayer structures of the chiral smectic liquid crystal phases revealed by resonant x-ray scattering.Phys. Rev. E 65 (4) 041705

Serak, S.V., Arikainen, E.O., Gleeson, H.F., Grozhik, V.A., Usova, N.A. & Guillou, J.-P. Laser-induced concentric colour domains in a chiral nematic liquid crystal mixture with azobenzene dopantsLiquid Crystals 29 (1) 19-26 2002

Dierking, I., "Fractal Dimensionality of Polymer Networks Formed by Photo-polymerisation in a Liquid Crystal Medium", J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 35, (2002), 2520-2525

Reis PM, Mullin T Granular 'Segregation as a critical phenomenon' PHYS REV LETT 89 (24): art. no. 244301 2002

Mullin, T. Mixing and de-mixing Science 295 (5561) 1851 2002

S Watson, H F Gleeson, L Matkin, L Baylis, 'Layer structures and their field induced deformation in antiferroelectric and ferroelectric liquid crystal devices.' Phys. Rev. E 65(3) 031705 2002

Wood, T.A., Wright, A., Gleeson, H.F., Dickinson, M.R., Mullin, T. & Murray, A. Investigation of the factors affecting the transverse force of an optical trap. Part II Proc. SPIE 2002

Wright, A., Wood, T.A., Gleeson, H.F., Dickinson, M.R., Mullin, T. & Murray, A. Investigation of the factors affecting the transverse force of an optical trap. Part I Proc. SPIE 2002

A Findon and H F Gleeson, 'Elastic constants of an achiral smectic-C material', Ferroelectrics, 277, 35-45, 2002

U Singh, H F Gleeson, J W Goodby and M Hird, 'Optical Bragg reflections from a series of antiferroelectric heterocyclic esters'
Ferroelectrics, 277, 153-167 (2002).

H F Gleeson, A J Murray, E Fraser and A Zoro 'An electrically addressed liquid crystal filter for tuneable lasers', Optics
Communications, 212, 165-168 (2002)
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2001

Abshagen, J., Pfister, G., and Mullin, T. Gluing bifurcations in a dynamically complicated extended flow. Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (22) 224501 2001

Cady, A., Pitney, J.A., Pindak, R., Matkin, L.S., Watson, S.J., Gleeson, H.F., Cluzeau, P., Barois, P., Levelut, A.-M., Caliebe, W., Goodby, J.W., Hird, M., & Huang, C.C. Orientational ordering in the chiral SmC*FI2 liquid crystal phase determined by resonant polarised x-ray diffraction Phys. Rev. E Rapid Communications 64, 050702(R) 2001

Findon, A., & Gleeson, H. F. Elastic constants of an achiral smectic-C material Submitted to Ferroelectrics August 2001

Gleeson, H.F. Structures and electric field effects in ferro-, ferri- and antiferro-electric liquid crystal devices, Invited paper. Submitted to Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. November 2001

Gleeson, H.F., Bryant, G.K. & Morse, A.S. Time resolved x-ray scattering studies of reversible layer flexing in surface stabilised ferroelectric liquid crystal devices, Invited paper. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 362 203-217 2001

Glendinning, P., Abshagen, J., and Mullin, T. Imperfect homoclinic bifurcations. Phys Rev. E, 64 (3) 036208 Part 2 2001

Hird, M., Goodby, J.W., Toyne, K.J., Gleeson, H.F., Buxton, I.P., Seed, A.J., & Herbert, M.R. The synthesis and mesomorphic properties of some novel antiferroelectric liquid crystals. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 365 213-220 2001

Hof, B., & Mullin, T. Critical dynamics in oscillatory convection. Magnetohydrodynamics 37 (1-2) 3-10

Juel A., Mullin T., Hadid H.B., Henry D. Three-dimensional free convection in molten gallium J. Fluid Mech. 436 267-281

Kobine, J.J. & Mullin, T. Nonlinear phenomena in hybrid Couette flow composed of planar and circular shear Phys. Fluids 13 (6) 1583-1593

Matkin, L.S., Gleeson, H.F., Watson, S.J. et al Resonant X-ray scattering study of the antiferroelectric and ferrielectric phases in liquid crystal devices Phys. Rev. E 64 021705 2001

Mullin, T. & Blohm, C. Bifurcation phenomena in a Taylor-Couette flow with asymmetric boundary conditions Phys. Fluids 13 (1) 136-140

Peacock, T. & Mullin, T. Homoclinic bifurcations in a liquid crystal flow J. Fluid Mech. 432

Roy, S.S., Gleeson, H.F., Whatmore, R., Shaw, C. & Zhang, Q. Effects of Pulsed Electric Fields on a Nematic Device with a Ferroelectric Ceramic Substrate, Accepted for publication Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 368 9-15 2001

Satchwell, D.G, Mullin, T Bifurcation phenomena in Taylor-Couette flow of elastic polymer solutions, P Roy. Soc. Lond. A Mat 457 (2015) 2567-2583 2001

Serak, S.J., Kovalev, A., Agashkov, A., Gleeson, H.F., Watson, S.J., Reshetnyak, V. & Yaroshchuk, O. Laser-induced surface and bulk reorientation of the director in azo-dye-doped liquid crystal cells Optics Communications 187 235-247 2001

Shaw, C.P., Roy, S.S., Whatmore, R.W., Gleeson, H.F., Huang, Z., Zhang, Q. & Dunn, S.Growth and characterisation of lead zirconate titanate (30/70 thin films using TiO2 seeding layer for oxide ferroelectric liquid crystal display application Ferroelectrics 256 259-174 2001

Shipton, S. Bifurcation phenomena in a channel with an Expanded Section. Proc. ASME 2000 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting Purchase the CD

Singh, U., Davis, F. & Gleeson, H.F. Phase transitions in mixtures of a nematic polymer and chiral nematic liquid crystals that form blue phases Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 357 239-247 2001

Singh, U., Gleeson, H.F., Goodby, J.W., & Hird, M. Optical Bragg reflections from a series of antiferroelectric heterocyclic esters Submitted to Ferroelectrics August 2001

Singh, U., Hunte, C. & Gleeson, H.F. Optical activity of a side group cholesteric liquid crystal silicone Liquid Crystals 28 697-701 2001

Singh, U., Watson, S.J. & Gleeson, H.F. Phase behaviour of polymer-liquid crystal polymer-polymer blends, Accepted for publication Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 365 297-304 2001

Tavener, S.J., Mullin, T., Blake, G.I., et al. Numerical bifurcation study of electrohydrodynamic convection in nematic liquid crystals Phys. Rev. E 6301: (1) 1708-+ Part 1

Watson, S.J., Gleeson, H.F. & D'Emanuele, A. An examination of the drug transport properties of liquid crystal embedded membranes, Accepted for publication Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 367 435-443 2001

Watson, S.J., Gleeson, H.F., Matkin, L. & Baylis, L. Layer structures and their field induced deformation in antiferroelectric and ferroelectric liquid crystal devices Submitted to Phys. Rev. E April 2001

Whatmore, R.W., Shaw, C.P., Zhang, Q., Roy, S.S. & Gleeson, H.F. Oxide ferroelectric thin films/nematic liquid crystals Integrated Ferroelectrics 41 3-16 2001

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2000

Gleeson, H. F., Bryant, G. K. & Morse, A. S. Dynamic X-ray scattering studies of reversible layer flexing in surface stabilised ferroelectric liquid crystal devices Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. invited paper

Matkin, L. S., Gleeson, H. F., Mach, P., Huang, C. C., Pindak, K., Srajer, G., Pollman, J., Goodby, J. W., Hird, M. & Seed, A. Resonant X-ray scattering at the Se edge in liquid crystal free standing films and devices Applied Physics Letters 76(14) 1863-1865

Matkin, L. S., Gleeson, H. F., Watson, S.J., Baylis, L., Bowring, N., Goodby, J. W., Hird, M. & Seed, A. Electric field induced layer deformations in the subphases of an antiferroelectric, liquid crystal device Applied Physics Letters 77 (3) 340-342

Mullin, T. Coarsening of self-organized clusters in binary mixtures of particles Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (20) 4741-4744

Mullin, T., Kobine, J.J., Tavener, S.J., et al. On the creation of stagnation points near straight and sloped walls Phys. Fluids 12 (2) 425-431

Shaw, C.P., Roy, S.S., Whatmore, R.W., Gleeson, H.F., Huang, Z., Zhang, Q. & Dunn, S. Growth and Characterisation of Lead Zirconate Titanate (30/70) Thin Films Using TiO2 Seeding for Oxide Ferroelectric-Liquid Crystal Display Application, Integrated Ferroelectrics 29 (3-4) 189

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