Free-standing films of twist grain boundary TGBA and UTGBC* liquid crystals studied by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 877-888

  Smalyukh, I I ^a   Pratibha, R ^b   Lavrentovich, O D ^a   Madhusudana, N V ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FILM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MODEL; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0042167412     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0267829031000121233     Document Type: Article

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