Modeling nematic liquid crystals in the neighborhood of edges

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 98, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Desmet, Hans ^a   Neyts, Kristiaan ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID-CRYSTAL DIRECTOR ORIENTATION; SIMULATION TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 29744461453     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2143122     Document Type: Review

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