J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 84, 033601 (2015) [4 Pages]
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Received January 9, 2015; Accepted January 26, 2015; Published February 20, 2015
The slow damped oscillation of a nematic disclination was observed after an abrupt (stepwise) change in the DC electric field. The oscillation was not observed under a high-frequency AC field. These results imply that molecular reorientation influences disclination dynamics after abrupt switching. An effective model, which is not a simple elastic theory, was proposed to analyze the results.
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