Photoinduced ordering and anchoring properties of azo-dye films

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

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Kiselev, Alexei D ^a,b   Chigrinov, Vladimir ^a   Huang, Dan Ding ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THIN FILMS;

AZIMUTHAL ANCHORING; AZO-DYE MOLECULES; INTERMOLECULAR POTENTIAL; PHOTOINDUCED ORDERING;

AZO DYES;

EID: 33244462794     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.061703     Document Type: Article

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