Planar anchoring of nematic 4-n-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl on selfassembled monolayers formed from alkanethiols on gold

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1852-1854

  Miller, William J ^a   Abbott, Nicholas L ^a   Paul, Jonathan D ^b   Prentiss, Mara G ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000154766     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.117455     Document Type: Article

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