Selective imaging of 3D director fields and study of defects in biaxial smectic A liquid crystals

European Physical Journal E

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 179-191

  Smalyukh, I I ^a   Pratibha, R ^b   Madhusudana, N V ^b   Lavrentovich, O D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEFECTS IN LIQUID CRYSTALS; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF SMECTICS, NEMATIC, AND CHOLESTRIC; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL POLARIZING MICROSCOPY (FCPM);

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 14844304716     PISSN: 12928941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epje/e2005-00019-8     Document Type: Article

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