Defect dynamics in a smectic Grandjean-Cano wedge

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

Volumn 69, Issue 1 1, 2004, Pages 117051-1170510

  Blanc, Christophe ^a,b   Zuodar, Nadia ^c   Lelidis, Ioannis ^d   Kleman, Maurice ^b   Martin, Jean Luc ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d Universite de Picardie Jules Verne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); NUCLEATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTICITY; STRAIN RATE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SCATTERING;

EDGE DISLOCATIONS; OROWAN EQUATION; SCREW DISLOCATIONS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 1842531684     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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