Vortex flow in freestanding smectic films driven by elastic relaxation of the c director

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2006, Pages

  Stannarius, Ralf ^a   Bohley, Christian ^a   Eremin, Alexey ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; EQUATIONS OF STATE; RELAXATION PROCESSES; THIN FILMS; TOPOLOGY; TRACE ELEMENTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

C DIRECTOR; ELASTIC RELAXATION; SMECTIC FILMS; TRACER PARTICLES;

VORTEX FLOW;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIQUID CRYSTAL;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33748654646     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.097802     Document Type: Article

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