Evidence of anisotropic quenched disorder effects on a smectic liquid crystal confined in porous silicon

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

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Guégan, Régis ^a,b   Morineau, Denis ^a,b   Loverdo, Claude ^a,b   Béziel, Wilfried ^a,b   Guendouz, Mohammed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POROUS SILICON; QUENCHING; THIN FILMS;

NANOCHANNELS; POROUS SILICON FILMS; SMECTIC TRANSITION;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 32844466267     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.011707     Document Type: Article

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