title: Naturally occurring reverse tilt domains in a high-pretilt alignment nematic liquid crystal.
abstract: A cell whose substrates were coated with the polyamic acid SE1211 (Nissan Chemical Industries) and baked at high temperatures was filled with a nematic liquid crystal in the isotropic phase. On cooling into the nematic phase, naturally occurring and temporally and thermally robust reverse tilt domains separated by thin filamentlike walls were observed. The properties of these structures are reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7079, USA.
authors.forename: Ruiting
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Atherton
authors.forename: Minhua
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Rolfe G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Petschek
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rosenblatt