Unusual thickness-dependent thermal behavior and anticlinic coupling in chiral smectic free-standing liquid-crystal films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 4048-4051

  Chao, C Y ^a   Lo, C R ^a   Wu, P J ^a   Liu, Y H ^a   Link, D R ^b,f   Maclennan, J E ^b   Clark, N A ^b   Veum, M ^c   Huang, C C ^d   Ho, J T ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^d University of Minnesota   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^f TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GROUND STATE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CHIRAL SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL MATERIAL; DEPOLARIZED REFELCTED LIGHT MICROSCOPY; SYNCLINIC-ANTICLINIC-SYNCLINIC ORDERING SEQUENCE;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0035971706     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4048     Document Type: Article

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