Investigations of nanoscale helical pitch in smectic- Cα* and smectic- C* phases of a chiral smectic liquid crystal using differential optical reflectivity measurements

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

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Panov, V P ^a   McCoy, B K ^b   Liu, Z Q ^b   Vij, J K ^a   Goodby, J W ^c   Huang, C C ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIX ALGEBRA; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; REFLECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

DIFFERENTIAL OPTICAL REFLECTIVITY (DOR); EVOLUTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOUND; NANOSCALE HELICAL PITCH;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33745926221     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.011701     Document Type: Article

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