A shear cell for aligning and measuring birefringence of bow-shaped (banana) liquid crystals

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 4492-4496

  Rastegar, A ^a   Wulterkens, G ^a   Verscharen, H ^a   Rasing, Th ^a   Heppke, G ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 0041681616     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1288238     Document Type: Article

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