Observation of pattern evolution during homeotropic-focal conic transition in cholesteric liquid crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 4855-4858

  Yang Ming, Zhu ^a   Deng Ke, Yang ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0343075660     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4855     Document Type: Article

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