Effective free-energy method for nematic liquid crystals in contact with structured substrates

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

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Harnau, L ^a,b   Kondrat, S ^a,b   Poniewierski, A ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BARRIERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE BEHAVIOR; PHASE BOUNDARIES; SUBSTRATES;

BISTABLE NEMATIC DEVICE; FLAT SUBSTRATES; NEMATIC DIRECTOR; STRUCTURED SUBSTRATES;

FREE ENERGY;

EID: 36049046442     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.051701     Document Type: Article

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