FLUCTUATIONS IN LIQUID-CRYSTALS IN THE PRESENCE OF A FLEXOELECTRIC EFFECT

We examine director fluctuations in nematic liquid crystals in an elec tric field in the presence of a flexoelectric effect. For the planar a nd homeotropic orientations we calculate the correlation functions and analyze these functions near the Freedericksz transition and the flex oelectric instability threshold. For both geometries we calculate the angular dependence of the intensity of light scattered by director flu ctuations and examine its behavior at electric field strengths close t o critical. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.