Anchoring-mediated interaction of edge dislocations with bounding surfaces in confined cholesteric liquid crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Smalyukh, I I ^a   Lavrentovich, O D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SURFACE TENSION;

EDGE DISLOCATION; FLUORESCENT CONFOCAL POLARIZING MICROSCOPY; NONZERO AZIMUTAHL ANCHORING; POLAR ANCHORING; SURFACE ANCHORING;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0037471115     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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