Anticonical anchoring and surface transitions in a nematic liquid crystal

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

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Faget, L ^a   Lamarque Forget, S ^a   Martinot Lagarde, Ph ^a,b   Auroy, P ^c   Dozov, I ^a  

^a Nemoptic   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ENERGY TRANSFER; GRAFT COPOLYMERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CONICAL ENERGY BARRIERS; GRAFTED POLYMER BRUSHES; SUBSTRATE PLANES; SURFACE TRANSITIONS;

SURFACE PHENOMENA;

EID: 33845260965     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.050701     Document Type: Article

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