Dirty, skewed, and backwards: The smectic A - C phase transition in aerogel

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 13, 2005, Pages

  Chen, Leiming ^a   Toner, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASSY ANALOG; SMECTIC BRAGG GLASS; TRANSLATIONAL CORRELATIONS; X-RAY SCATTERING INTENSITY;

ALGEBRA; ANISOTROPY; CORRELATION METHODS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

AEROGELS;

EID: 18144369314     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.137803     Document Type: Article

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