Planar anchoring and surface melting in the smectic- A phase

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

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Lacaze, Emmanuelle ^a   Michel, Jean Philippe ^b   Alba, Michel ^c   Goldmann, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PAUL PASCAL   (France)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

PLANAR ANCHORING; SMECTIC ANCHORING ENERGY; SURFACE MELTING;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 35248899484     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041702     Document Type: Article

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