Electroconvection patterns in smectic films at and above onset

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 239, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 189-203

  Mao, Samuel S ^a   De Bruyn, John R ^a   Morris, Stephen W ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electroconvection; Ginzburg Landau equation; Liquid crystals; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ELECTROCONVECTION; GINZBURG-LANDAU EQUATION;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031146735     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00477-3     Document Type: Article

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