Smectic Phases with Cubic Symmetry: The Splay Analog of the Blue Phase

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 21, 2002, Pages

  DiDonna, B A ^a   Kamien, Randall D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPACTION; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; FREE ENERGY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

CUBIC SYMMETRY;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0037132316     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.215504     Document Type: Article

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