Double Reentrance of Surface Arrangements in Freestanding Liquid Crystal Films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Han, X F ^a   Wang, S T ^a   Cady, A ^a   Radcliffe, M D ^b   Huang, C C ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELLIPSOMETRY; HEATING; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

FREESTANDING LIQUID CRYSTAL FILMS; NULL TRANSMISSION ELLIPSOMETRY; SURFACE ARRANGEMENTS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 11344291740     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.045501     Document Type: Article

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