Dependence of film tension on the thickness of smectic films

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2 1, 2003, Pages 217071-217077

  Jaquet, R ^a   Schneider, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SURFACE TENSION;

FILM TENSION;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0038732768     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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