Chiral twisting of a smectic-[Formula Presented] liquid crystal

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 3977-3983

  Spector, M S ^a   Prasad, S K ^a,b   Weslowski, B T ^a,c   Kamien, R D ^d   Selinger, J V ^a   Ratna, B R ^a   Shashidhar, R ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY; DICHROISM; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ALIGNMENT DIRECTION; ELECTROCLINIC EFFECT; INTERFACIAL REGION; NORMAL DIRECTION; SMECTIC-A LIQUID CRYSTALS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0001048514     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.3977     Document Type: Article

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