Spatial resolution of the molecular alignment in electroclinic liquid crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1536-1538

  Lindle, J R ^a   Bartoli, F J ^a   Flom, S R ^a   Harter, A T ^a   Ratna, B R ^a   Shashidhar, R ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0010229079     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.118610     Document Type: Article

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12. Although the stripe pattern observed on a polarizing microscope at first appears quite periodic, closer examination does reveal features similar to those seen in Fig. 1.
13. This appears to conflict with models of the stripe deformation which implicitly assume that, in order to preserve the smectic layer thickness, the tilt angle and the deformation angle should be equal.