Optical measurement of azimuthal anchoring strength in nematic liquid crystals

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

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 417131-417139

  Zhang, Baoshe ^a   Sheng, Ping ^a   Kwok, Hoi S ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREE ENERGY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; OPACITY; SUBSTRATES;

ELASTIC THEORY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 18144441395     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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