Surface-Stabilized Smectic a Phase in the Gay-Berne Model

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3477-3487

  Miyazaki, Toshikuni ^b   Shigematsu, Koichi ^b   Yamashita, Mamoru ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DENSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alignment at liquid crystal substrate interface; Anchoring effect; Cell boundaries; Gay Bern potential; Molecular dynamics simulations; Smectic phase; Symmetry breaking field for positional order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032279232     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.67.3477     Document Type: Article

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