A deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance investigation of the director distribution in a thin nematic liquid crystal slab

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

Volumn 347, Issue , 2000, Pages 53-63

  Luckhurst, Geoffrey R ^a,b   Sugimura, Akihiko ^a   Timimi, Bakir A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Continuum theory; Deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance; Director distribution; Nematic liquid crystal; Surface anchoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041365976     PISSN: 1058725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10587250008024829     Document Type: Article

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