Precise determination of the cholesteric pitch of a chiral liquid crystal in a circularly aligned configuration

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 2547-2549

  Suh, Seong Woo ^a   Joseph, Kathy ^a   Cohen, Gil ^a   Patel, J S ^a   Lee, Sin Doo ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sogang University   (South Korea)

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EID: 0013156050     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.118916     Document Type: Article

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