homeotropically

English

Etymology

From homeotropic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

homeotropically (not comparable)

1. In a homeotropic manner.
   • 1973, Microtecnic, volume 27, page 354:

     The change in birefringence changes the state of polarization of the light sufficiently to allow the light to pass through the second polarizer passes unaffected through regions of the homeotropically aligned liquid crystal since only n_⊥ is encountered.

   • 1992, B Bahadur, Liquid Crystals — Applications and Uses‎^[1], volume 3:

     In the case of homeotropically treated phase change dichroic LCDs, it quickly decays from 100% to <5% level instantaneously and then merges from 5% to zero level reasonably fast exhibiting almost no memory.

   • 2016, Salah Obayya, Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics‎^[2]:

     Once gathered, leave the sample alone for few minutes, and hence a sample of clear homeotropically aligned state is obtained.