| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
(i) We successfully accounted semiquantitatively for the structural response of a zigzag line defect of a nematic liquid crystal in a sinusoidal groove to the chirality of a gas dissolved there. (ii) We reproduced the experimental findings on the structure of line defect in a liquid crystal cell on whose surfaces director patterns with topological defects are imprinted. (iii) Based on a continuum theory, we carried out a simulation study on the structure formation and dynamics of a chiral liquid crystal in a thin planar cell. We also investigated how these structures are observed by optical measures, and almost perfectly reproduced experimental findings.
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