Spontaneous breaking of minimal surface condition: Labyrinths in free standing smectic films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 20, 2005, Pages

  Pociecha, Damian ^a   Gorecka, Ewa ^a   Vaupotič, Natasa ^b,c   Čepic, Mojca ^b,d   Mieczkowski, Jozef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABYRINTH STRUCTURE; MASS DENSITY DIFFERENCE; SURFACE CONDITION;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MODULATION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 28844455483     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.207801     Document Type: Article

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