Twist Elasticity and Anchoring in a Lamellar Nematic Phase

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 155011-155014

  Patel, Neha M ^a   Dodge, M R ^a   Zhu, Min Hua ^a   Petschek, Rolfe G ^a   Rosenblatt, Charles ^a   Prehm, Marko ^b   Tschierske, Carsten ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; ETCHING; GLASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES; TEXTURES; VISCOSITY;

ELECTRO-OPTIC MEASUREMENTS; LAMELLAR NEMATIC PHASE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 1242306994     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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