Optical studies on free-standing films of an achiral smectic liquid crystal

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 6 1, 2003, Pages 607011-607014

  Han, X F ^a   Wang, S T ^a   Cady, A ^a   Liu, Z Q ^a   Findeisen, S ^b   Weissflog, W ^b   Huang, C C ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELLIPSOMETRY; FERROELECTRICITY; FILM GROWTH; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; THIN FILMS;

DEPOLARIZED REFLECTED LIGHT MICROSCOPY; FREE-STANDING FILMS; NULL TRANSMISSION ELLIPSOMETRY;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 1442305897     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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