Phase winding in chiral liquid crystalline monolayers due to Lehmann effects

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Svenšek, Daniel ^a   Pleiner, Harald ^b   Brand, Helmut R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL SYSTEMS; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE MONOLAYERS; TARGET PATTERNS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; WATER;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 33645759070     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.140601     Document Type: Article

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