Equilibrium size and textures of islands in free-standing smectic C*films

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 364, Issue , 2001, Pages 123-131

  Meyer, Robert B ^a   Konovalov, Dmitri ^a   Kraus, Isabelle ^b   Lee, Jong Bong ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIE DES MATÉRIAUX DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Equilibrium; Free standing films; Islands; Smectic C*; Textures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038590103     PISSN: 1058725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10587250108024982     Document Type: Article

References (7)

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2. The origin of this method has been attributed to P. Pieranski, using cigarette smoke.
3. Sometimes, in other materials islands are seen to grow without limit, once nucleated, indicating a reduction of free energy, relative to the bulk plus background film; this will be discussed elsewhere.
4. P. G. deGennes, The Physics of Liquid Crystals, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974, page 319, and Fig. 7.17.
5. I. Kraus and R. B. Meyer, Phys. Rev. Letters 82, 3815 (1999);
6. ibid. Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 328-523 (1999).
7. K.-K. Loh, I. Kraus, and R. B. Meyer, submitted to Phys. Rev. E, (2000).