Director configurations in nematic droplets with inhomogeneous boundary conditions

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

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Prishchepa, O O ^a   Shabanov, A V ^a   Zyryanov, V Ya ^a  

^a KIRENSKY INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LECITHIN CONTENTS; NEMATIC DROPLETS; POLARIZERS; RADIAL STRUCTURES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DROP BREAKUP; FREE ENERGY; POLARIZATION; TEXTURES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 28844433717     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.031712     Document Type: Article

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