title: Dynamics of Helfrich-Hurault deformations in smectic-A liquid crystals.
abstract: A dynamics of the Helfrich-Hurault deformations in the SmA sample in the case of a rigid homeotropic anchoring has been theoretically investigated. It has been found that, unlike the Freedericksz transition, in the nematic liquid crystals, both the switching-on and switching-off characteristic times for this phenomenon are linearly proportional to the SmA sample thickness, and the switching-off process is much faster than the switching-on one.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. miran@mail.ru.
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Mirantsev
keywords: Soft Matter: Liquid crystals