Computer simulation evidence of the transient planar state during the homeotropic to focal conic transition in cholesteric liquid crystals

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

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 3951-3960

  Anderson, J E ^a   Watson, P ^a   Ernst, T ^a   Bos, P J ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HOMEOTROPIC; HOMEOTROPIC STATE; PITCH RATIO;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0001372318     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.3951     Document Type: Article

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