Unique approach to measuring temperature variation of surface tension in smectic liquid crystals

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5151-5155

  Veum, M ^a   Messman, P ^a   Liu, Z Q ^b   Huang, C C ^b   Janarthanan, N ^c   Hsu, C S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TENSIOMETERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; HELIUM NEON LASERS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTODIODES; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 0348196804     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1623629     Document Type: Article

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