Manipulation of disk-shaped islands on freely suspended smectic films and bubbles using optical tweezers

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 309-312, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Pattanaporkratana, A ^a   Park, C S ^a   Maclennan, J E ^a   Clark, N A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble; Islands; Optical tweezers; Smectic liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); ELECTROMAGNETISM; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ISLANDS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 30144434765     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1080/00150190490510537     Document Type: Conference Paper

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